In a desire to perpetuate some of those links with the past which are
rapidly passing from the scene, an historical exhibit has been set up in
Carillon Park. The caretaker’s house has been built as a replica of an
old grist mill and includes a water wheel which turns a millstone, just
as in the mills of yesterday.
Most of the other exhibits are concerned with transportation and tell
the story of man’s progress from the days of the Conestoga wagon, the
Concord coach and the canal, to the airplane. They also include a
covered bridge which long served the people of this valley and a
grasshopper locomotive, the oldest in existence.
[Illustration: The Concord Coach]
[Illustration: The Steam Fire Engine]
[Illustration: The Old Covered Bridge]
[Illustration: Original Canal Lock]
[Illustration: The Old Grist Mill]
[Illustration: The Conestoga Wagon]
[Illustration: The restored 1905 Wright airplane]
[Illustration: The Grasshopper Locomotive]
[Illustration: The Pioneer Home]
[Illustration: Deeds Barn]
[Illustration: The Deeds Carillon is no less impressive by night
than by day. Softly lighted, it reaches skyward, symbolic in its
strength and simplicity of the spirit of the people to whom it is
dedicated.]
CARILLON PARK
DAYTON, OHIO
One of a series of Carillon Park booklets.
Price ten cents.