By Ken Graham
The Times
How a Town Was Reborn
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April 25, 2013
Top and above: Concrete delivery on a mass scale was required to apply the new surface to Dayton's Main Street in 1991. Now, Main Street's trees are nearly mature, and they were beginning to turn green earlier this week. Below: The dirt lot west of Banner Bank was transformed into the beautiful Flourmill Park in a few short weeks after the March, 1983 town meeting.
DAYTON - In March, 1983, about 300 Dayton residents attended a town meeting at the multipurpose room of Dayton Elementary School.
The meeting was called by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, whose board president at the time, Mike Chamberlain, decided the time had come to do something about Dayton's mori- bund downtown.
According to several long-time residents who were there, the meeting generated lots of excitement. At the end of the meeting, five separate projects names were stuck to the wall and everyone in the room got up and stood next to the one they wanted to volunteer for. The five wer...
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