SERVICES Harrison Township is served by Dayton Power 81 Light Company and also by Darke Rural Electric, which provides electricity to some rural residents. Only a spur line running through Verona from Dayton to Continental Grain Company in Darke County is operating. Today the trains have been discontinued and track, rails and bed have been removed. The Dayton-Western Line ran through West Sonora and the Cincinnati-Northern ran through Lewisburg.

RAILROADS The railroads were built here in the 1880s. Harrison Township also had covered bridges and two remain open to traffic. Some have been replaced by concrete bridges but a few iron spans remain. Interstate-70 was built through the township and opened to traffic on December 1, 1964, making travel across Ohio easier and faster.īRIDGES lron bridges were built over Twin Creek and Prices Creek beginning in 1868. Many drivers would go miles out of their way to keep from paying the ten cent toll. The Greenville Pike (State Route 503), built in 1842, was the main north-south road and was a toll road. Route 40) was built through Harrison Township between 18 but it was not paved until 1930. After the paving of township roads in the 1940s, Marble Cliff Quarry closed. Stone from the quarries was used to build and maintain roads, which usually followed the streams. Limestone was quarried from several places but the largest quarry was Marble Cliff Quarry. ROADS When the township was settled, mills sprang up along the streams, with distilleries and tanneries close by.

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