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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L4P_sugar-creek-baptist-church-cemetery_Dayton-OH.html
The first recorded meeting of the Sugar Creek Baptists (now Centerville Baptist Church) was November 2, 1799. In 1802, property was purchased from Aaron Nutt and by 1803, a meeting house was erected on the west side of the cemetery. Early resi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FCE_mccook-field_Dayton-OH.html
McCook Field was established as a research and development facility of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aviation section. 18 October 1917, this Dayton site favorably located within the U.S. industrial complet became the aviation engineering and developm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A1K_orvilles-last-workshop_Dayton-OH.html
"For 30 years Orville Wright's place of business was the plain brick building (here) on North Broadway. Visiting reporters found it quite ordinary. There was a reception area for Miss Beck (his secretary); an inner office with Orville's desk, file…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A1H_the-professor-of-the-propeller_Dayton-OH.html
The Wright brothers were the first experimenters to understand that a propeller for a flying machine had to work differently from a ship's screws. The first Wright Flyer used 8-foot-long wooden propellers that the brothers hand-carved from spruce.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A1D_31-years-at-the-lab_Dayton-OH.html
Six days a week from 1917 to 1948 Orville Wright chose to come to work here in what he called the Wright Aeronautical Laboratory. Images taken by National Cash Register Company photographers soon after his death give a glimpse of the spare, orderl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A16_making-his-way-with-words_Dayton-OH.html
As a poet, novelist, and popular lecturer, Paul Laurence Dunbar used his extraordinary way with words to achieve international fame. In just ten years, Dunbar rose from a job running a downtown Dayton elevator to receiving an invitation to Preside…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A15_rising-to-the-challenge_Dayton-OH.html
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park honors the creative achievements of Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright and Paul Laurence Dunbar. In this national park, you won't see wilderness, vistas or wildlife—-but you can learn how three na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A12_west-side_Dayton-OH.html
By 1900 Dayton's West Side was a thriving neighborhood of working-class homes and small businesses. Some residents commuted to downtown Dayton by streetcar. Others, like Wilbur and Orville Wright, lived and worked in this community. The brother…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16NX_joseph-calvin-paul-memorial-boulevard_Dayton-OH.html
This Boulevard is dedicated to the memory of L/CPL. Joseph Calvin Paul, U.S. Marine Corps who died from wounds received in action near Chu Lai Republic of Vietnam on 19 August 1965. Greater love hath no man than this.That a man lay down his life f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160Y_paul-laurence-dunbar_Dayton-OH.html
Born on June 27, 1872 in Dayton to former slaves Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, Paul Laurence Dunbar developed a love of stories during his early years. He wrote his first poem at age six and recited his original Easter Ode at age nine to the congrega…
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