The Wright Cycle Company Complex This complex consists of the Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center and Aviation Trail Visitor Center and Museum as well as The Wright Cycle Company building. The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center and Aviation Trail Visitor Center and Museum contains exhibits on the various sites on the Aviation Trail, Wilbur and Orville Wright and the invention of flight and Paul Laurence Dunbar. One of the highlight exhibits is the historically furnished suite used by the Wright brothers for their printing business from 1890-1895.
Huffman Prairie Flying Field and Interpretive Center Wilbur and Orville Wright used Huffman Prairie Flying Field, a seven-sided, 84 acre irregular piece of low, wet pasture to perfect their aircraft and train pilots after their successful flight in North Carolina in 1903. The Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center, located at the Wright Memorial, orients visitors to the flying field and the history of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center
at Carillon Historical Park The national park unit at Carillon Historical Park includes a replica of the Wright brothers’ last bicycle shop, the 1905 Wright Flyer III, and a number of artifacts related to the Wright brothers, such as the camera that took the famous photo of the first flight.
Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial
Operated by the Ohio Historical Society, the Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial was Dunbar’s last home. Upon returning to Dayton in 1903, Dunbar lived here with his mother until his death in 1906. The house is furnished with original furnishings.
On Novvember 13, 1909, Orville travels to Latonia Race Track
in Cincinnati, Ohio to witness exhibition flying and meet
Glenn H. Curtiss for the first time since patent suits had
been filed.
