Dayton History is an organization located in

Dayton, Ohio Dayton () is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population of 137,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Dayton metro ...

, USA, formed in 2005 by the merger of the Montgomery County Historical Society (originally the Dayton Historical Society) and Dayton's

Carillon Historical Park 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 o ...

. The private non-profit (501c3) organization was established to acknowledge the history of Dayton, Ohio. The following sites are under Dayton History’s care: * Carillon Historical Park: 30 historic structures and over three million artifacts * Carillon Brewing Company: The only fully operational production brewery in a U.S. museum. * Hawthorn Hill: Orville Wright’s success mansion, est. 1914. * Patterson Homestead: Originally the home of Colonel

Robert Patterson Robert Patterson (January 12, 1792 – August 7, 1881) was an Irish-born American military officer who served in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. He was the commander of the Pennsy ...

, a Revolutionary War soldier and founder of Lexington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, est. 1816. * The Archive Center: A 100+ year-old collection of millions of the Dayton region’s artifacts, originally managed by the Montgomery County Historical Society, est. 1896. * The Mound Cold War Discovery Center: Top-secret, scientific work of Mound Laboratory used during the

Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...

Atomic Age The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, The Gadget at the '' Trinity'' test in New Mexico on 16 July 1945 during World War II. Although nuclear chain r ...

, and the

Space Race The Space Race (, ) was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between t ...

, 1948–2003.

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Historical societies in Ohio Organizations based in Dayton, Ohio {{Hist-org-stub