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Photographer: Steve Stoessel
Taken: July 31, 2018
Caption: Final Honors
Additional Description: To perfect a flying machine was nothing short of a miracle. Dayton's two most famous sons were soon hailed throughout the world for making the ancient dream of flight a reality.

After Wilbur Wright died unexpectly in 1912, prominent Dayton leaders initially thought that Huffman Prairie Flying which you can see from this bluff, would be a best place to build a memorial.

The commitee wanted a simple classic design "throughly in keeping with the unassuming modesty of villle

But the devastation of a great flood in 1913 postponed efforts to build any monument until 1938. This Wright Memorial fittingly overlooks the place where their greatest work was done.
Submitted: April 26, 2019, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p471977
File Size: 2.434 Megabytes

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