6 | The City of Dayton
ing manufacturing operations, are less than a
90-minute flight from Dayton International
Airport, or within 500 miles over-the-road
that is shared by some 155,000 motor ve-
hicles which traverse daily through Dayton’s
Interstate 70/75 corridor. A national leader
in arts, education and enterprise, these fac-
tors all add luster to Dayton being conferred
long ago with the nickname of “Gem City,”
a moniker which stuck following an article
published in an 1845 edition of the Daily
Cincinnati Chronicle that eloquently stat-
ed: “The most indifferent observer will not