Downtown Dayton is entirely skippable. There are no restaurants, no shops, no street life, and few interpretive plaques on the city’s history. Not even the Second Street Market is open daily like the ones in Colombus and Cincinnati.
It’s so boring that it even erected a statue of Lincoln in front of the courthouse in 2016 just because he spoke there once. They even have a dry water fountain with ugly caricatures of 13 presidents around it with space for two more disfigured presidential faces. I don’t think Biden would be stopping by at Dayton anytime soon for his faces to be etched in bronze.
Dayton is famous for its role in aviation because it was the home of the Wright Brothers. However, their first flight took place in Kitty Hawk, not Dayton. But they do have the world’s largest military aviation museum.
