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  History of Dayton, Ohio, USA

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Visit Dayton, Ohio, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

•  1854 - TORNADO AT DAYTON - BUILDING BLOWN DOWN - MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING - CORNFIELDS PROSTRATED.
  On Saturday a heavy storm of wind and rain passed over Dayton, doing considerable damage in the way of destroying awnings, tearing off window...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Dayton
  Dayton, a flourishing city, capital of Montgomery county, Ohio, is situated on the left or E. bank of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Mad river, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1869 - Killed by Stone
  A son of John Cupp, of Dayton, Ohio, aged about 13, was instantly killed the other day in that town, by a stone thrown from a sling in the hands of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1878 - James Ritty of Dayton developed the first cash register.
  
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•  1879 - November 4 - James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
  
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  November 4, 1879
  
  
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  The Computing Scale Co.
  Dayton, Ohio
  
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  D. Gross
  Dry Goods
  Dayton, Ohio
  
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• 1895 - Dayton
  Dayton, a flourishing city, capital of Montgomery co, O., is situated on the left or E. bank of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Mad River, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1898 - FOUGHT THE FLAMES FOR HOURS.
  Twenty Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Property Destroyed in Dayton.
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  DAYTON, May 27.—A fire, which was fought for several ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Kid Gloves Cost Money
  
  Hudson Rubber Company, Dayton, Ohio
  
  Ladies' Home Journal
  September 1898
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  Looking North on Main St.
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  Webster Street Engine House
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• 1903 - The Wright Brothers, a pair of bicycle shop owners from Dayton, became the first in flight
  
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  Dayton, Ohio, Court Houses, 1905
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  Dayton Ohio Boulevard, 1906
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  Fairgrounds, Dayton, O., Showing N.C.R.
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  Miami River, 1908
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  Governor Harmon Presenting Ohio's Medals - Wright Brothers' Celebration, Dayton, Ohio, June 18, 1909
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• 1910 - November 7 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
  
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  South Main St.
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  Entrance to Woodlawn Cemetery
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  Arcade, Third Street Entrance, 1911
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  Swimming Pool, Romberger Park
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  Hotel Algonquin
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  Conover Building, 1912
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• 1913 - March 26 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
  The Ohio River Basin flood reached a peak. Ten inch rains over a wide area of the Ohio River Basin inundated cities in Ohio, drowning 467 persons,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Wrecked Building, Dayton, Ohio, during Greatest Flood in Modern History, March, 1913.
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  The Miami-Jacobs Business College, 2d and Main Sts., Dayton, Ohio
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  Main Street, looking South
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  Conservatory, Soldiers' Home, 1915
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• 1916
  Dayton, a city, capital of Montgomery co., Ohio, is situated on the left or E. bank of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Mad River and on the line ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• April 19, 1919: Leslie Irvin made the first free-fall parachute jump, Dayton, Ohio
  
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  Union Station
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  The Rike-Kumler Co. and Miami Hotel, Dayton, Ohio.
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  St. Elizabeth Hospital, Dayton, Ohio.
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• 1923 - February 2 - Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
  
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  The Impressive Skyline of Dayton, Ohio
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•  1934 - August 19 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
  
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• 1936 - OUT FOR FUN, 6 MEET DEATH. KILLED BEYOND CRASHED GATE OF RAIL CROSSING.
  Dayton, O., Oct. 19. (AP) - Six persons, out for an evening of merry-making, met death beyond the crashed safety gate of a rail crossing yesterday...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Fourth Reformed Church
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  Hotel Van Cleve
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•  1945 - OFFICER IS KILLED AT AVIATION SHOW. ARMY PILOTED EXPERIMENTAL PLANE CRASHES ON CIVILIAN AUTO.
  Dayton, Ohio, May 27 (AP) - Capt. WILLIAM GLASGOW of Niagara Falls, N.Y., a veteran of 80 combat missions over Germany, was killed and five civilians ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Masonic Temple
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  McCook Bowl
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  Saint Anthony's Church
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