Welcome to Dayton
City of Cinema
The Neon opened on August 22, 1986 and was the first motion picture house that had been built in sixty-four years in downtown Dayton. It was also the first downtown theater in over twenty years to have been built in a major city in the United States.
- Dayton.com
City of Dreams
Dayton is the place of the Wright Brother’s testing grounds and is home of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wilberforce University, founded in 1856, is the country’s oldest private historically black university. It is named in honor of William Wilberforce, an 18th-century abolitionist. Dayton is the birthplace of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.
City of Art
Dayton is nationally ranked in arts & culture. Dayton is home to the Schuster Center & Victoria Theater. The Dayton Art Institute is ranked in the top 3% of national art museums. Dayton also boasts beautiful murals to commemorate our history.
City of Innovation
Dayton held the most patents in the 1890s and is where the self starting engine was intended. Innovative Daytonians helped crack Enigma during WWII. Engineer David Bradley, who came up with “CTRL, ALT, DELETE” attended the University of Dayton.
