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In partnership with the Avon/Washington Township Library, the Town of Avon has created a section on the web site where the Library will provide articles on the history of Avon. The Library just completed a 2 year Avon Oral History project and many articles are a result of the Oral History Project. The Oral History Project is in booklet form and can be purchased at the Library.
 
Fun facts and tidbits about past Avon residents and sites:
 
Complete Avon History
 
Avon In The Civil War
 
More On Avon In The Civil War
 
The Haunted Bridge
 
Rail Transportation
 
Avon's Soybean Pioneer
 
Avon- the Town of Many Names
 
 
 
Check out these oral history stories:
 
Remember those orange biography books from school?
 
How was Burnett Woods Named?
 
Reconstructing historic home on US 36
 
Riding the Interurban Train
 
Hardscrabble- Place for Dancing
 
Creation of West Central Conservancy District
 
Cooper's Berry Farm on Dan Jones Road
 
C & D Body Shop-Now D & D
 
Bud's Auto Parts-Now LKQ
 
Avon Schools-Early Days
 
Avon Optimist Club History
 
Old School, Trains, and Free Milk
 
Living Along Old US 36
 
Hauling Gravel For a Road and Being a Farm Girl
 
Soybeans First Planted in Avon
 
Adrian Parsons- Soybean Pioneer
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Remembrances of Old Downtown
 
Blacksmith Shop and Loafing Around
 
When Prestwick Was A Farm
 
Abner Creek Baptist Church and Voting
 
 
                         
 
 
 

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