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By Bridget Garnai Retzloff and Heidi Gauder
What was life like in the neighborhoods surrounding the University of Dayton campus before students began living in the houses? This question is what we wanted students to imagine and answer when we created an AVIATE opportunity this semester. Beginning with houses at Wyoming and Brown streets and working south, students are researching house addresses from 1920, looking up the residents, and then pinning that information to a Google MyMap. By the end of the project, we hope to map both the north and south student neighborhoods.
The student discoveries have already yielded interesting finds. Rogge Street, for example, is one block long and a mix of single-family homes and duplexes. It was a working-class area, and all families but one on the block were white. Those who were employed earned wages or worked on their own account; no one was listed as salaried or as an employer. Many of the houses were occupied by families, often with several
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