The links below are great resources for Dayton History. These links are not part of Dayton History Books Online and are not searchable by our search engine. Hitting any link below will open up a new window.
Historic Organizations:
American Veterans Heritage Center
Dayton History
Preservation Dayton
Historic Districts:
Huffman Historic Area
McPherson Town District
Oregon Historic District
South Park Historic District
St. Anne's Hill Historic District
Wright-Dunbar Historic District
Other Books About Dayton Online:
The History of Montgomery County, Ohio by W. H. Beers, 1882
What Dreams We Have by Ann Honious
"Must See" Links About the Dayton Area
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Dayton Codebreakers - This site tells the story of hundreds of people who worked at the United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory, a top secret project in Dayton during World War Two. These people kept their secret for over fifty years.
Dayton National Cemetery - A list of nearly 37,000 people buried at the VA Center from 1867 to 2000
Dayton VA Virtual Tour of the National Military Home in 1885
Linda Tope Trent's Home Page
Montgomery County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society
The Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints - describes over 9,650 books, pamphets and broadsides printed in Ohio from 1796 through 1850, including Dayton printers. Also an index to the 1850 Dayton City Directory as well as others, like the Cooper Academy
Paul Laurence Dunbar House
Paul Laurence Dunbar Audio Poems - Herbert Woodward Martin, University of Dayton professor emeritus, reads over 40 poems of Dunbar, all of which can be listened to here.
Woodland Cemetery & Arboretum