REMEMBERING LOCAL HISTORY

As I expressed in class during my presentation. Dayton has a number of neighborhoods and areas with fading histories. Unfortunately due to the changes the city has undergone and the nature of time the people who lived in these neighborhoods are leaving us. As they go they take with them the stories, and perspectives of people who lived through some of the more historically intriguing times in Miami Valley history.

Hog Bottom isn't a singular story. The narrative of Hog Bottom encompasses the same framework for areas such as Hell's Half Acre, Dogpatch, Little Kentucky, and a numerous other neighborhoods that have been encompassed by a once sprawling suburbia and as well general demographic change. I hope in the future Dayton and the communities therein do a better job at documenting and archiving the history we make now. The maintenance and upkeep of our local histories is important. To