| 2009 Tipp City Calendar of Events |
| Apr. 11 | Easter Bunny visits downtown Tipp City |
| May 9 | Harrison's Fundraiser for Breast Cancer |
| June 2 | Tipp City-Wide Community Garage Sale |
| June 3 | Derbyshire Tea to Benefit Daybreak at The Willowtree Inn |
| Jun. 13 - Oct. 24 | Tippecanoe Farmers' Market |
| July 10 | Grand Opening of STUDIO 14, the BENKIN Gallery of Fine Art |
| July 10-12 | St. John's Festival |
| Aug. 1 | Ginghamburg Kid2Kid Sale |
| Aug 7, 5-8pm | Fundraiser for Tippecanoe Canal Jumpers at Harrison's |
| Aug. 16 | Vintage Baseball Game - Tippecanoe Canal Jumpers |
| Sept. 25 | Mum Festival |
| October | Fall Into Tipp events and Tippecanoe HarvestFest 2009 |
| Nov. 14-15 | A Winter's Yuletide Gathering in Downtown Tipp City |
| Dec. 5 | Homes for the Holidays Tour, Christmas Tree lighting |
| Dec. 12 | MIDNIGHT MADNESS IN DOWNTOWN TIPPECANOE |
| For more information, please see our full DTCP CALENDAR of events in Tipp. | |
Tipp City lies just north of Dayton, Ohio at the intersection of I-75 and State Route 571. Founded in 1840, Tipp City was once a hub of shipping and trading activity on the Erie Canal. The city was founded as Tippecanoe City and was named after presidential candidate William Henry Harrison’s campaign nickname, Tippecanoe, which he received after leading his troops to defeat the Shawnee Indian leader Tecumseh at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
The small town was located on the Miami and Erie Canal, a crucial waterway that paralleled the Great Miami River and provided a shipping lane north to Lake Erie and south to the Ohio River at Cincinnati. The canal passed just east of the downtown, and a small portion of the canal and one lock are still visible in Tipp’s Canal Lock Park. Tippecanoe City eventually merged with Hyattsville, another small village to the west at the corner of Hyatt Street and State Route 571.
Eventually, the development of railway lines in the 1850’s gave the canals direct competition, but they continued in operation until most of the Dayton-area canal system was damaged in the famous 1913 flood. Most municipalities decided not to repair their portions of the canal and the system fell into a state of disrepair. Soon afterward, Interstate 75 passed directly to the west of town, causing most of the traffic to enter town from the west.
Welcome to Tipp City!
Welcome to Tipp City! Located just north of Dayton and the intersection of Interstates 70 and 75, Tipp City boasts a quaint downtown shopping district with cute restaurants and coffee shops to complement its rural and residential heritage. For up-to-the-minute Tipp City News, see the Tipp News Daily online newspaper!
Click the MAP for our ALL-NEW Visitor's Guide, a map of downtown shops and restaurants! For a list of other Tipp Businesses, see our Directory.
The Tipp City Visitor's Bureau is a program of the Downtown Tipp City Partnership, a group dedicated to preserving and promoting Tipp and its historic downtown shopping district.Please Visit Our Great Advertisers!
