Help us bring more positive change to South Park! By aligning South Park with the Downtown Priority Board (instead of our current inclusion with the Southeast Priority Board) we would be closer to the pulse of development coming to our area! We need voices and bodies to make this happen! Please help by attending the [...]

Join South Park’s neighborhood historian, Betsy Wilson, for another chapter in the history of the original residents of South Park as we visit their resting places in Woodland Cemetary and Arboretum. Meet at Woodland’s front gate on Monday, May 30th at 10am. Traditionally, neighbors bring flowers from their gardens in remembrance of our “ancestors” so vases and water are provided if you are so inclined. Expect to spend 90 minutes in a pleasant walk through Woodland’s shady and steep hills.

This year, Betsy took her cue from some of the homes on this spring’s Historic South Park Home Tour. Her research will focus on the working class families who built the homes or lived in them, and shed some light on the lives of laborers who plied their trades in Dayton in the early 1900s. While many,of course, worked at National Cash Register, society also needed the support of saloon keepers, brick layers, horse trainers, music teachers–and an acrobat? You’ll have to join the Walk to find out more! Wear your comfy shoes.

While this date was postponed due to weather, please check back for the rescheduled date! Thank you. *** On May 24th, the Dayton Police will hold a night walk in Historic South Park. Everyone is invited to meet at 8:30 PM in the Hope Lutheran Church parking lot (500 Hickory). From there, we will complete [...]

Start cleaning out your basements and closets! South Park is having a neighborhood yard sale. Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15. If you would like to participate, contact our Yard Sale organizer: Anna Claugus at alclaugus@gmail.com on or before our Deadline of April 14th. Cost to participate is $5, towards the 3-day advertisement in the Dayton Daily News, balloons to mark your house and signs around the neighborhood.

Congratulations to the two Spring Home Tour visitors who were lucky enough to win our fabulous raffle prizes! Shawntay of Comtactic’s ScanDayton ScanVenger Hunts and Tour Co-Chair Meridith drew the winners.  Stephen Hall of Kettering wins 4 tickets to a Dayton Dragons game with a VIP parking pass and Christian Egli wins the Apple iPad2! [...]

Thanks to everyone for coming to visit our neighborhood! South Park looked its best (and driest) on Saturday afternoon April 30th, thanks to everyone’s efforts to beautify–after the rain finally gave them a chance!  Theresa Gasper took some beautiful photos for us to share. And we have two happy winners of our raffle (an iPad2 [...]