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Capture
the spirit and imagination of three inventive, creative men whose
lives came together in Dayton, Ohio—aviation pioneers Orville and
Wilbur Wright, and writer Paul Laurence Dunbar—at the Dayton Aviation
Heritage National Historical Park.
This National Historical Park—a cooperative effort between the National Park
Service and Dayton-based partners Aviation Trail, Inc., Carillon Historical Park,
the Ohio Historical Society, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base—commemorates
the lives of the Wright brothers, first to fly a powered, heavier-than-air machine...and Dunbar,
the first African-American writer to earn high distinction in American
literature.
At the Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center, you'll see exhibits that demonstrate
how the lives of these three men came together to weave a rich historical tapestry
with implications far beyond the west side of Dayton. Orville Wright and Paul
Laurence Dunbar were classmates in school... and, when the Wright brothers ran
a printing shop in the 1890s, they printed Dunbar's newspaper for the African-American
community, the Dayton Tattler.
Next, you'll visit The Wright Cycle Company, the fourth location of the Wright
brothers' bicycle business, and the only one intact and at its original location.
You'll see the bicycle technology the Wrights incorporated into the structure
and mechanisms of their gliders and flyers.
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details and an enlarged
map view.
For more information,
please visit:
www.nps.gov/daav/planyourvisit/
facilitysites.htm
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