Place:Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States

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Name	Richmond
Alt names	Smithville	source: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) X, 54
Type	City
Coordinates	39.83°N 84.891°W
Located in	Wayne, Indiana, United States (1806 - )
Also located in	Wayne (township), Wayne, Indiana, United States
	Boston (township), Wayne, Indiana, United States

Contained Places

Cemetery: Bulla Family Cemetery 1 ( 1829 - 1867 ); Bulla Family Cemetery 2; Concord Methodist Episcopal Cemetery ( 1826 - ); Earlham Cemetery ( 1861 - ); East Haven Cemetery ( 1878 - ); Elkhorn Cemetery ( 1806 - ); Friends Old North Side Burying Ground ( 1800 - 1870 ); Glen Haven Memorial Gardens; Goshen Cemetery; Hoover Bulla Cemetery ( 1830 - ); Lutherania Cemetery; Orange Cemetery ( 1814 - ); Ridge Cemetery ( 1879 - ); Saint Mary Cemetery

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Richmond is a city in eastern Wayne County, Indiana. Bordering the state of Ohio, it is the county seat of Wayne County and is part of the Dayton, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 36,812. Situated largely within Wayne Township, its area includes a non-contiguous portion in nearby Boston Township, where Richmond Municipal Airport is currently located.

Richmond is sometimes called the "cradle of recorded jazz" because the earliest jazz recordings and records were made at the studio of Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company. Gennett Records was the first to record such artists as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Lawrence Welk, and Gene Autry.

The city has twice received the All-America City Award, most recently in 2009.

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Research Notes

David Hoover and three other young men followed a section line from West Milton. Miami, Ohio in 1806 and are recognized as the founder of Richmond. The first name that the area was known as was Smithville. The locals did not like this name and so they had three members nominate a new name. David Hoover offered the name Richmond and in a vote the community choose Richmond.^{Citation needed}

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