Resident creates a site with links to local activities, information
By Martha Hardcastle
For the Dayton Daily News
BROOKVILLE– Brookville may be one of the last communities in the area to get a Web site, but technologically, the village is running with the big dogs.
Resident Abraham Lincoln (who said he’s a third cousin of the late president) has incorporated the latest in graphics and eye candy into the Web site, which he produced on speculation for the town.
“Brookville has never had a Web site, but individuals in town have put up unofficial Web sites on line and tried to get advertising support for it,” he said.
Lincoln got the idea about a year ago. He already does the site for Clay Township, which Brookville is partially situated within.
“I thought I would do this all on my own and create a Brookville Web site that everyone could be proud of,” he said.
Lincoln was right on target.
“Then I showed it to the municipal officials and they were astonished,” he said. “They were flabbergasted that anyone would take all the time and effort to do this without any assurance anyone would buy it.”
And like many other Web sites, Brookville’s is off to a good start but still under construction.
“We have a lot of local references and links, church information, local developments, the town theater and the castle project” (a playground completed last year at Golden Gate Park).
Lincoln, 66, a Brookville resident for the 39 years, also has a link to the Web site for his hometown, Gordon, which is about a dozen miles to the north.
He’s having fun with the Web site.
"What I like to do is the newest thing, right now that happens to be ‘flash’ – where the letters roll,” he said.
He thinks it was a kind of natural for Brookville to be slow to jump on the bandwagon.
“Brookville was kind of laid back,” he said. “It’s always been that way, I think. They are not eager to embrace new technology, but all of a sudden I think the city fathers noticed that everyone else had a Web site.”
At the time, Sonja Keaton, Brookville’s finance director, thought it was about time and Abe built the first website the community ever had and maintained it for several years. “The reason the municipality decided to have a Web site is to better inform the citizens of the community and to promote our economic development to everyone,” she said.
“The Web is a great tool to promote economic development. Users who visit our site will see the great amenities that the municipality has to offer such as the location of our four residential developments currently in progress, economic development and its proximity to Interstate 70, numerous services that the municipality provides and information on our police and fire departments, just to name a few.
Please visit http://brookvilleohiodailyphoto.blogspot.com/ and feel free to contact us if you have any questions.”
Dayton Daily News,
April 5, 2001, Neighbors, Z6-5
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