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Eighty years ago, the Dayton Daily News gave the following report as Daytonians weathering the Great Depression made plans to celebrate the New Year holiday. The “clarion blasts” and “owl cars” have passed along with the heyday of hotel parties and public dances, but it’s likely their great-grandchildren will also see “many whistles made wet… (continue…)
“I lived through it,” Roy S. Hieatt, my father, tells me. The year was 1959, and he was on a racially segregated bus from Biloxi, Mississippi to Corbin, Kentucky, his birthplace. A year later in Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and two others from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical… (continue…)
Dayton History and Carillon Park are proud to announce the grand opening of the Heritage Center of Dayton Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship on August 20 from 9:30 am – 5:00 pm. It will mark the largest single public opening of new exhibits and attractions at Carillon Park since the Park’s debut in 1950. The Heritage Center… (continue…)
(Taken from information provided by Dayton History) Innocent or Guilty? You Decide… Join Dayton History for an interactive courtroom drama at the Old Courthouse. This summer, the sensational 1896 Bessie Little (don’t click on this link unless you want the WHOLE story pre-trail – and that takes the fun out of it) murder case will… (continue…)
In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first civilian aviation school in Montgomery, Alabama. The Wright brothers hoped to find a climate warmer and more hospitable to flying than their company base in Dayton, while leaders in Montgomery heralded the school as a way to rise above the shadow of the Civil War. Author… (continue…)
A short article, along with some historical pictures, about the invention of the self starter by Dayton’s own Vincent G. Apple.
