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2701 Home Ave., Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park 39°44′50″N 84°14′20″W / 39.7473°N 84.2390°W / 39.7473; -84.2390 ( Wright Company 115
The dwellings and site plan of the 3-acre (1.2 ha) site are based on lengthy archeological excavations sponsored by the Dayton Society of Natural History, which owns and operates the site as an open-air museum. Because of its archaeological value, the site was listed in 1974 on the National Register of Historic Places.
An original lock of the Miami and Erie Canal is located on the grounds, as is a canal toll office. The transportation center vehicles include the John Quincy Adams steam locomotive (built in 1835 by the B&O Railroad and is the oldest US-built locomotive that still exists), [5] a Barney and Smith passenger car built in Dayton, a Conestoga wagon, a 1908 Stoddard-Dayton automobile, a 1915 Xenia ...
There are 159 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 7 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Dayton is the location of 116 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the remaining properties and districts are listed here. A single ...
Hawthorn Hill, the 1914-1948 residence of Orville Wright, located just south of Dayton in Oakwood, Ohio. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park is located within the National Aviation Heritage Area, an eight-county region in Ohio established as a National Heritage Area by Congress in 2004.
Location County Description; 1: Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park: October 16, 1992: Dayton, Ohio: Includes the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright Cycle Company building, 1905 Wright Flyer III, Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial, and Hawthorn Hill NHLs 2: First Ladies National Historic Site: October 11, 2000: Canton: Stark: 3
Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots.
There are over 4,000 in total. Of these, 73 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in each of Ohio's 88 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [a]