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, 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, Atomic Age, and the Space Race, 1948–2003.