Community

Our Community
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ˜Marcus Tullius Cicero

Centerville / Washington Township

  • "A Wonderful Place to Call Home!"
  • Outstanding suburban communities
  • Located eight miles southeast of Dayton, OH
  • Providing excellent schools, parks, medical services, and retail establishments
  • Citizens are strong library supporters

City of Centerville

  • Welcome to "Warm and Cheerful Centerville, Ohio" - population 24,220
  • Founded in 1796. One of the oldest communities in Ohio.
  • Largest collection of early stone houses in the state of Ohio and listed on the National Register of Historic Places
  • The Golf Club at Yankee Trace

Washington Township

  • Open Space Community -- population 56,434
  • Offering children's theatre productions in the historic Town Hall built in 1908
  • Enjoy the Washington Township RecPlex offering a variety of youth Summer Camp opportunities or workout in this year-round facility including an indoor running track, indoor climbing wall, 2 indoor pools, and a 140 foot indoor waterslide
  • The Washington Township Enrichment Center at RecPlex West offers adults 55 years and older creative and enjoyable programs in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Centerville City Schools

  • Serving 8,000 students and offering a variety of educational programs to a diverse student population.
  • Distinguished on the state and national level.

Centerville-Washington Park District

  • An award-winning park district with 51 beautiful parks and over 1,000 acres
  • Hiking, nature walks, picnics, playgrounds, sledding, and sports
  • Kids love Activity Center Park which offers a sprayground with fun features that spray and dump water.
  • Be sure to stop by the Nature Literature Trails, a joint venture between the Library and the park district and the Little Free Libraries, a joint venture between the Friends of WCPL and the park district.

Centerville Washington Diversity Council

The council consists of 50 representatives from:

  • Local government, public and private schools, and businesses
  • Media, faith and ethnic communities
  • Various races, ages, physical abilities and sexual orientations

Centerville-Washington History

  • A group dedicated to connecting the community to its heritage by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and promoting the history of our local area
  • Much of the stone used to build our early Montgomery County highways was crushed and hauled from Centerville quarries
  • Read more about the local history of this area