In honor of this historic milestone, the DDN is taking a look back 50 years in a weekly series highlighting what was happening in Dayton around the 200th anniversary, back in 1976.
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For this edition of Vintage Dayton, we look back at the week of Jan. 11-17, 1976.
More stories from the archives
• 6 things you didn’t know about Martin Luther King Jr.’s ties to Dayton
• Meet Thomas Elder, Dayton’s first great merchant
• ‘A fearfully grand spectacle’: The night an entire Dayton city block was consumed in flames
Did you know?
Here are a few great Dayton history facts we’ve learned from our stories:
• Newcom Tavern served as Dayton’s first jail, church, general store and Montgomery County’s first temporary courthouse.
• Orville Wright’s home, known as Hawthorn Hill, had a unique “needle shower” that helped soothe his chronic pain from a 1908 plane crash.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received an honorary degree from Central State University in 1958.
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