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Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona State College

An internationally renowned museum in Daytona Beach. Contemporary and vintage fine art, photojournalism, fashion and new media. Stunning modern galleries, seminars, lectures, workshops. Significant collection. Free gallery admission. Daytona State College main campus.

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Daytona Beach Road Course

The Daytona Beach Road Course is one of the most historic raceways in America. Although long ago replaced by the Daytona International Speedway, the original site of local stock-car racing was critical to the modern development of NASCAR.

Designed by local ...

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Dayton Fire Department Station No. 14

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of

Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Originally constructed

1901

The last “horse-drawn” apparatus

firehouse in Dayton, Ohio, 1917

Renovated by Servco Industries

and Main Auto Parts

1988

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Ohio Route 48) and Mumma ...

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Dayton

Dark Days in the Burnt District

In the fall of 1864, attacks by Confederate raiders and bushwhackers angered Federal officers in the Shenandoah Valley. On September 22, Union soldiers captured a hapless man named Davy Getz near Woodstock who was wearing ...

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Site of Dayton's First Electric Generating Station

1883 - 1897

[Same as Title]

Marker is at the intersection of Riverview Avenue and Interstate 75, on the right when traveling east on Riverview Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Colonel Elias Dayton

American Colonel Elias

Dayton ordered a 4 pound

cannon to fire east on

Morris Ave. at the

advancing enemy. The

British were driven back

and retreated during the

evening of June 7, 1780.

Marker is on Morris Avenue (County Route 82), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

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Fort Dayton

This site was within the stockade of

Fort Dayton

which stood on a slight eminence about

one hundred yards farther north.

The fort was erected by Col. Elias Dayton

in 1776, served as a military base during

the Revolutionary War, and finally in 1781,

became the most ...

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Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway

[Marker Front]:

The Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway (DS&U) was an “Interurban” rail system that ran between the cities of Urbana, Springfield and Dayton. Its beginning can be traced to the franchise given to William H. Hanford to operate a ...

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Dayton Masonic Temple

(Side A): The first Masonic Lodge in Dayton was founded in 1808, located in the first Montgomery County Courthouse. Various other locations were home to Masons in Dayton, but by World War I, rapid growth of the Masonic community called ...

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Dayton and Michigan Railroad

Side A

The Dayton and Michigan Railroad provided the single most important impetus to the growth and development of Wapakoneta. Although Wapakoneta had been platted in 1833, at the time of incorporation (1848), "the town was still without any material improvement ...

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