Business View Magazine | June 2019

324 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 X enia is a city in, and the county seat of, Greene County, Ohio, located in the southwestern part of the state, 15 miles from Dayton. The name Xenia comes from the Greek, and means “hospitality.” Xenia was founded in1803, the year Ohio was admitted into the Union. The arrival of the Little Miami Railroad in 1843, gave the city its industrial roots, and during the mid-19th century, the town grew rapidly. By 1847, Xenia had ten churches, two newspaper offices, an iron foundry, one bank, and seventeen stores. Most businesses either processed crops or sold agricultural implements to the farmers in the neighboring countryside. The telephone came to Xenia in 1879; electricity in 1881; a water works system in 1886; its first free public library in 1899; and by 1900, the city was operating its own sewage system. Today, the city of 26,000 is still an important hub for the transportation of goods and services, situated as it is in the “transportation triangle” formed by three major interstate highways: I-70, I-71, and I-75. These north/ south, east/west arteries are within minutes of Xenia, via U.S. 35, U.S. 42, and U.S. 68, tying the community to one of the nation's largest 90-minute highway markets. Xenia is also within the nation's largest 90-minute air travel