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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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPB_wright-patterson-afb_Dayton-OH.html
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... -John Gillespie Magee Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has led the nation throughout the evolution of U.S. military air superiority. When the origina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJP9_mccook-field_Dayton-OH.html
This field is small. Use it all. -sign at McCook Field Entering World War I, the United States urgently needed to advance this new field of aeronautics. Thanks to the area's industrial strength, the military chose Dayton as the sight of a new a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOD_huffman-prairie_Dayton-OH.html
The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. -Henry David Thoreau After their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the Wright brothers could no longer…
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