Two *almost* identical images. Note there's a Kroger ad in the image on the right that has mysteriously disappeared in the image on the left. All the telephone poles are gone in the postcard as well. Rest assured, these came from the same glass negative.

 

Sixth and Berry	Sixth Avenue in Dayton

 

Terrace. from Sixth	Fifth and Berry,	Sixth and Berry, 1909

 

 

5th Street East of Main, Dayton, Ky, 1912
 “Dear PC Friend, Thank your for your card. Have you any 
churches in your fine city?  This is one of the streets in the
 little burg I live in.  It is just across the river from Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and not a very large place.  Alice Culter”

 

The Residential Section  of Dayton. c. 1905	Sixth Avenue from Vine Street, Dayton	Sandy Lane Country Scene near Dayton

This is a small portion of an 1869 Cincinnati map	1886 Sanborn map of Dayton

Both of these older maps reflect that in October of 1891, Dayton changed many of its street names.

1914 story from Kentucky Post on how Clarke and Benham Streets were named, here.

A more detailed version of the same story from Collin's History of Kentucky is here.

Pythian Temple 5th and Berry	Flood Levels at 4th & Main That's Speers Hospital on the left

“The Dayton, Ky. Civic League met Monday.  The question of corresponding with residents of Newport, Bellevue and Dayton, relative to replacing shade trees on the streets which were destroyed by the recent storm was discussed.  It was decided to recommend that the trees be of uniform size and of one kind, planted to form a continuous avenue from Newport to the extreme end of Dayton.” from the Kentucky Times-Star, July 20, 1915

Greater Dayton Association's float in a Cincinnati parade, 1923.
They won second place. Driven by Camillus Rechtin.
From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett, from the Dayton Heritage Museum

 

Another Dayton parade, but by the look of the cars, older than the ones below. From a Facebook post by Cheryl Duncan Hussung.		Memorial Day, 1949 From a Facebook post by Carl Baumann

 

Dayton-Bellevue Parade, October 16, 1949, near 6th and Berry in Dayton. From a Facebook post by Gail Myers

 

Sixth and Berry Streets, Dayton,1936	Sixth and Berry, Dayton, 1909	Dayton in the Snow photo by William Brengelman	Parade in Dayton photo by William Brengelman

 

Boarding the Trolley for German Day at the Lagoon in Ludlow
photos by William Brengelman

The Tornados of July 7, 1915 were a major disaster on Greater Cincinnati.
From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett

1307 4th Avenue facing west.
From a Facebook post by Jim Hedger, whose parents, Harry Hedger, Jr. and Mildred Stevens Hedger, are taking each others picture.

 

4th and Benham
From a Facebook post by Daryl Ritchie

 

6th and McKinney, 1965
From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett

 

Dayton to build an arch for the G.A.R. gathering. Unknown if it was actually built.
From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett

Workers in Dayton, Kentucky

Details on this 1924 train wreck, purportedly in Dayton, are here. (pdf)

In 1937, they put a dead whale on display in Dayton on a 60-foot truck.
No word on the smell.

1919 interview with Dayton's oldest citizen, here.

The 1915 Dayton bicycle races.