Your Guide to Buying a Home in Wilmington, OH

Buying a Home in Wilmington, Ohio

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Wilmington is located in Clinton County

Wilmington was featured in Time magazine on December 8, 1997 as a small town that is attractive to suburban families. James W. Denver, for whom Denver, Colorado is named, is buried in Wilmington. Home to Wilmington College, founded in 1870 by the Society of Friends, the city and the surrounding area include more than a dozen Quaker meeting houses.

In the early 1950s the city became home to a number of U.S. Department of Defense facilities, most notably the Clinton County Air Force Base. Following its closure in 1971, the economy of the city hovered in recession for more than a decade. Following a number of small attempts to reuse the abandoned air force base, Airborne Express purchased the facility in 1979 for $850,000, a fraction of the estimated $100 million spent to construct it. During the next 24 years, Airborne invested more than $250 million to build a hub for its national delivery network, including new sort centers, a 9000 foot runway, aircraft hangers, machine shops, flight simulators, a state of art control tower, and a modern administration building to accommodate an estimated 6,000 employees and its fleet of 125 DC-8, DC-9 and Boeing 767 aircraft.

In 2003, facing insurmountable competition from UPS and FedEx, Airborne was purchased by DHL, one of the world's largest international shipping firms. Owned by the Deutsche Post WorldNet, a German holding company, DHL consolidated its US flight and sorting hub operations in Wilmington in 2005.

Wilmington is also home to CMH Regional Health System, a growing regional health provider. From its base of operations at Clinton Memorial Hospital, which just underwent a $50 million renovation, the non-profit corporation has extablished health clinics almost a dozen satellite locations in Southwestern Ohio. In 2007, the CMH will open it new $20 million cancer treatment center in Wilmington.

Source: wikipedia.org

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