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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160V_the-neighborhood-geniuses_Dayton-OH.html
"...the invention [of the airplane] came from such an unexpected quarter. The Wrights had no special training in science or engineering. While both were well educated, neither had completed the formal coursework required for his high school diplom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160U_we-were-always-happy-on-hawthorne-street_Dayton-OH.html
The Wright brothers were in their twenties when they became interested in aeronautical science. Five adults lived here in the years that Wilbur and Orville debated their ideas about how to develop a flying machine around the dining room table. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160S_wright-brothers-home-base_Dayton-OH.html
You can no longer see a plain two-story house standing on Bishop Wright's small lot just ahead. Here on quiet tree-lined Hawthorne Street Orville Wright was born in 1871. Here Wilbur Wright died in 1912. The brothers who would one day create a fly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160Q_preserved-and-enshrined_Dayton-OH.html
The actual house where the Wright brothers dreamed of flight and the bicycle shop where they built the first airplane can no longer be seen here in West Dayton. But the original buildings still exist, and are well preserved.
In 1936 wealthy ind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160O_birthplace-of-aviation_Dayton-OH.html
The first airplane. The first airport. The first permanent flying school. The Wright brothers created them all - here in Dayton.
After their first short flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903, Wilbur and Orville returned home to their w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160M_wheels-to-wings_Dayton-OH.html
In the spring of 1895, Wilbur and Orville Wright moved their printing and bicycle shops under one roof in The Wright Cycle Company building you see in front of you. Here the brothers concentrated on designing and building their own custom make of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOAE_hulls-rendezvous_Dayton-OH.html
Here, where the Shawnees were defeated by Clark's 1782 expedition, Dayton was founded, in 1796. Hull's army and other War of 1812 troops were mobilized at this point.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJQB_state-of-ohio-korean-war-memorial_Dayton-OH.html
Welcome to theOhio Korean War Memorialand All Veterans' Memorial Walkway
During the 120th General Assembly regularsession 1993-1994, both houses of theState of Ohio Legislature unanimouslyvoted Dayton as the official siteof the Ohio Korean War …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPG_neil-armstrong_Dayton-OH.html
It suddently struck me that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth...I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. -Neil Armstrong
Another Ohio aviator took the final step in the nation's goal to reach the moon. Neil Armstrong, born an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPE_john-glenn_Dayton-OH.html
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." -William Shakespeare
In the midst of the Cold War, the United States was losing face to the Soviet Union's superior space program. The Soviets had alrea…