Carillon Park

I always have a tough time choosing only a select few photos after visiting Carillon Park and this last visit with Lukey and Kenzie was no different. Nevertheless, I managed to compile a small collection of photos from our most recent visit.

Actually, I also need to sort through all the photos that Lukey captured too! This blog entry has only my photos though. I'll publish another blog entry later with some of Lukey's photos. In the meantime, here are some of my photos.

Here is a photo of the carillon from the parking lot of Carillon Park...

There is a whole room or two filled with NCR (National Cash Register) cash registers from the first to the most recent. Many of them are quite elaborate and beautiful pieces of machinery unlike today's characterless point-of-sale "systems"...

Below is an early Cadillac which was manufactured in Dayton...

After we arrived back home and we were talking about the photos from Carillon Park, I found that Sheila didn't realize what this display at Carillon Park was all about... she thought it was simply an elaborate playhouse. This was not a playhouse though. The ceiling was only about five feet high... the chairs were small... and they had Lincoln Logs on the long benchtop tables. Apparently, she didn't see the placard explaining what this actually was... it was a manufacturing building for child workers before the child labor laws!

Here is a display of some of the toys manufactured in Dayton...

Lukey is getting acquainted with another steam locomotive...

Lukas "Wilbur" Ladieu...

Newcom Tavern... the first of its sort in the area. Built in 1796, this is Dayton's oldest surviving structure.

These women were working on sewing and needlepoint in the kitchen side of the tavern.

The second floor of Newcom Tavern had an animatronic lawyer representing a real person who lived in the local area back at that time. This animatronic lawyer educated us about the tavern, his business and the local area back at this time in history...

The tavern was used as an armory during the revolutionary war...

Here is a one-room schoolhouse.. Locust Grove School no. 12...

There was a museum docent 'teacher' in the schoolhouse who talked with Lukey and Kenzie about school in this schoolhouse. In this schoolhouse, the date is July 24, 1896... two years before the birth of my grandfather who emigrated to the US...

The grist mill... Lukey and Kenzie wanted some of the water off the waterwheel so they could cool off a bit!

The inside of the grist mill...

In a previous blog entry about our visit to Woodland Cemetery, I wrote about a child who drowned in one of the Miami and Erie Canal locks... this is one of those locks...

This photo below is looking down the main thoroughfare at Carillon Park...

Here are but a few of the automobiles manufactured in Dayton in an early service station and showroom...

Sun Oil was among the first to standardize their look...

We visited a print shop based on the Wright brothers' experiences in printing their newpapers...

Below are a couple of photos from the inside of a power plant in Dayton...

This little cabin, below, is named "Sugar Camp Cabin 22". NCR was headquartered in Dayton for about a hundred years. NCR had a program partnered with the Navy to train code-breakers called WAVES. Marine guards secured the Sugar Camp. During World War II, in support of the war effort and to defeat Japan and Nazi Germany, hundreds of WAVES were trained here. Work was done in three shifts, six days a week. Below are some photos of one of the cabins housing four women at a time, I believe, who were these WAVE "code breakers".

This home, below, was the home of one of the more wealthier families in the area...

Lukey is trying to catch his breath in the heat. He has a battery operated fan blowing on his face. It was truly brutally hot on this day and this photo is included here to show just how brutally hot it was!