On Tuesday we went to Carillon Park in Dayton, Ohio. The park is built around a carillon near the Ohio River. Many historical buildings were moved to the park. Bob and I are standing in the doorway of a limestone house built in 1824.
We visited a one room school house--no, I can't seem to get away from education. Bob tried to put my hair in the inkwell.
There was an old gas station (circa 1924) that had been moved from downtown Dayton. The service attendant filled the glass cylinder on the top of the tank and gravity allowed the gas to flow into the gas tanks.
A covered bridge was moved piece by piece to to Carillon Park.
There were 2 transportation buildings. One contained old trolley and train cars that spanned a period of 46 years. The other held the remains of the 1905 Wright Flyer. It had been restored to look like the original. It was interesting because it looked like the struts were made of metal, but they were actually painted silver. This was to keep others from the Wright Brothers' time from copying their structure for a flying machine. In old photographs, light reflected off the silver and made it impossible to see the structure.
Carillon Park was an interesting stop in our travels.
We returned to the rv and got ready for a travel day. We toasted our good times looking over Bass Lake toward C-5s on the Wright Patterson runway.
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