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Carillon Historical Park is a 65-acre (26.3 ha) park and museum in Dayton, Ohio, which contains historic buildings and exhibits concerning the history of technology and the history of Dayton and its residents from 1796 to the present. As a part of the University of Dayton, the historical elements of the park were the brainchild of Colonel Edward Deeds. The major sections include settlement, transportation, invention, and industry. The park also contains the Carillon Park Railroad, a gauge
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. In 2005, Carillon Historical Park merged with the Montgomery County Historical Society to form Dayton History.


Kettering Family Education Center

The Kettering Family Education Center anchors the park and features changing exhibits in the National City Exhibit Gallery, a video about the park, and gift and snack shops. There are also rooms for education presentations.


Wright Brothers Aviation Center

The John W. Berry Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center houses the 1905
Wright Flyer III The Wright Flyer III was the third powered aircraft by the Wright Brothers, built during the winter of 1904–05. Orville Wright made the first flight with it on June 23, 1905. The Flyer III had an airframe of spruce construction with a wing ...
, the world's first practical airplane. The airplane, a unit of
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio that commemorates three important historical figures— Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar—and th ...
, was restored from 1948 to 1950 with the initial consultation of Orville Wright before his 1948 death.


Settlement exhibits

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- 1796 home of Col. George Newcom and family, oldest building in Dayton :* William Morris House - 1815 stone cottage :* Locust Grove School - 1896 one-room schoolhouse used for over 30 years


Transportation exhibits

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 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...
and is the oldest US-built locomotive that still exists), a Barney and Smith passenger car built in Dayton, a Conestoga wagon, a 1908
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automobile, a 1915 Xenia
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, an interurban railcar, and other vehicles associated with Dayton. Among the latter, added to the collection in 1988, is a 1949-built Marmon-Herrington
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, which was number 515 in the fleet of the City Transit Company''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 164 (May–June 1989), p. 45. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452. and provided service on the Dayton trolley bus system from 1949 until about 1982. It arrived at the museum in August 1988 and replaced a similar Marmon-Herrington trolley bus, ex-Dayton 501, that had been on display there since April 1988Bland, Jim (April 29, 1988). "Carillon adds old buggy, '48 trolley exhibits". '' Dayton Daily News'', p. 3-A. but was then donated to the Cincinnati Transit Historical Association under an agreement in which Carillon Park received No. 515 from the Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority in exchange.Kline, Benjamin; and Owen Kubik (August 23, 1988). "Driver dies while towing historic trolley". '' Dayton Daily News'', p. 3-A. The center also displays the final
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made at the former General Motors
Moraine Assembly Moraine Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Moraine, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Dayton. A Frigidaire appliance plant had originally operated on the site from 1951 to 1979. Starting in 1981, the Chevrolet S-10 small pickup wa ...
, next to the first windshield made by
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, which redeveloped the factory.


Invention and industry

* Deeds Barn - features such inventions as a Liberty aircraft engine, early Frigidaire refrigerator, 1912
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with the Delco automobile electric system. * Print Shop - working 1930s print shop * Corliss Engine Building - houses the
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that provided both electrical power and steam heat for the National Cash Register Company from 1902 to 1948.


Deeds Carillon

The park is named for the Deeds
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. Colonel Edward Deeds, in whose name the
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was built, was a Dayton industrialist and innovator. The art moderne-style tower was built in 1942 and designed by New York architects Reinhard & Hofmeister. It was funded by Edward Deeds' wife Edith Walton Deeds and was designed to commemorate the Deeds family. When the tower was built, each of 23 bells was inscribed with the name of a family member, with the “silent” bells bearing the names of deceased family members and ringing bells cast with the names of family members then living. Today, with 57 bells, the carillon is Ohio's largest. The National Park Service listed the Deeds Carillon on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Carillon Park refurbished the carillon in 1988, converting it from an electric keyboard controlled instrument to a traditional, baton-keyboard mechanical carillon. The Park's
carillonneur A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniou ...
, Larry Weinstein, performs live carillon concerts every Sunday at 3:00 pm from May to October.


See also

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The Henry Ford The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) is a history museum complex in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. The museum ...
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Dayton, Ohio *
Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon The Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon is a carillon located in Washington Park in Springfield, Illinois. The brutalist tower stands 132 feet and is constructed from concrete, brick and steel. It was dedicated in 1962 and designed by Bill Turley. Each ...


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