Here are a few photos from our Annual Memorial Day Walk led by Betsy Wilson. This year’s theme was Small Business owners of South Park.
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RSS feed for this sectionDid South Park Once Have a Branch Library?
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Oct
South Park Resident Larry Sizer has discovered photographs of what appears to be a South Park library branch. Here are interior and exterior views, with an NCR building in the background of the exterior view. Can anyone tell from the photos where these buildings were? Caption for interior photo: Interior of the South Park Delivery […]
2012 South Park Woodland Cemetery Memorial Day Walk
11
May
“When This Cruel War is Over” is the theme of the 2012 South Park Woodland Cemetery Memorial Day walk. We will mark the graves of South Park residents who shared the common thread of lives disrupted–for better or worse–by war. Included are a Civil War veteran pensioned for war injuries, a family whose German Bible […]
Writer of Famous 1865 Letter Lived in South Park!
22
Feb
An honest God-fearing man wanted to be paid for his labor. Did you see the story in the Dayton Daily News about escaped slaves Jordan and Amanda Anderson and their 1865 letter to their former “master”? Neighborhood historians Betsy & Galen Wilson tell us the family lived in our own South Park, on Burns Avenue! And […]
Memorial Day Walk in Woodland Cemetary with Historian Betsy Wilson
18
May
Join South Park’s neighborhood historian, Betsy Wilson, for another chapter in the history of the original residents of South Park as we visit their resting places in Woodland Cemetary and Arboretum. Meet at Woodland’s front gate on Monday, May 30th at 10am. Traditionally, neighbors bring flowers from their gardens in remembrance of our “ancestors” so […]
Building a better South Park: The historic neighborhood’s unprecedented progress
06
Apr
[This essay appeared in the Dayton City Paper February 23, 2011] Everybody loves it when the good guys win. The story of the renewal of South Park, Dayton’s largest historic neighborhood, is inspiring in its transformation and instructive in its struggle against urban blight and all its ills. Once perceived as a place to be […]
Memorial Day History Walk in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum
23
May
Memorial Day is about remembering those who have passed before us, which is what you’re invited to Monday, 10AM, May 31st. Come assemble with us inside the gates of Woodland Cemetery for our annual history walk, led by neighborhood historian, Betsy Wilson.