Osborn was named after the superintendent of the railroad named E.F. Osborn . The previously unnamed town allowed the railroad to be built through it after the nearby town of Fairfield refused the plan of the railway to go through there . Nearly the entire town of Osborn , along with the railroad , were relocated two miles away during construction of the Huffman dam to a site east of and adjacent to Fairfield , Ohio in 1921 . This was necessary because of the Miami Valley Flood Control Project and the Miami Conservancy District that was begun after the Great Dayton Flood ( Dayton , Ohio ) of March , 1913
Great Dayton Flood
Great Dayton Flood
Osborn, Ohio