Montgomery County Historical Society

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The Montgomery County Historical Society, located in Dayton, Ohio, USA, was designated^{[by whom?][when?]} as official historian of Montgomery County, Ohio, and of the cultural heritage of Ohio's Miami Valley. In 2005, the Society merged with Dayton's Carillon Historical Park to form Dayton History.^[1]

In 1896, a group of citizens gathered at the Old Court House in Dayton, Ohio to create an organization dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of the Miami Valley. Their goal was to celebrate the city's centennial by saving and converting Newcom's Tavern, Dayton's oldest building (ca. 1796), into the community's first history museum. They called their organization the Dayton Historical Society. The society remained headquartered in Newcom's Tavern for seventy-five years. Newcom's Tavern is now located on the grounds of the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton.

In 1968, the society's volunteers took a leadership role in the preservation of another outstanding Dayton

style courthouse. The Dayton Historical Society became The Montgomery County Historical Society and relocated to the Old Court House.

In 1977, the City of Dayton asked the society to provide management and museum services for the 1816

. Today, the Patterson Homestead is used for educational programming on life in early Dayton.

In 1998, the society began management of the NCR

. The new Miami Valley History Research Center, featuring the NCR Archive, opened in Dayton in 2001.

References

External links

• Montgomery County Historical Society, Dayton, Ohio
• Newcom's Tavern at Carillon Historical Park
• Old Court House, Dayton, Ohio
• Montgomery County Historical Society Collection (MS-005), a manuscripts collection at Dayton Metro Library