Deeds Barn Move 1973

Beginning in 1908, Charles Kettering, Edward Deeds and a group of 12 other men began work on something that would revolutionize the automobile. Working in the carriage barn behind Edward Deeds' house on Central Avenue, Kettering, with the help of the Barn Gang as they called themselves, invented the worlds first practical electric ignition system and self-starter for the automobile. Their work lead to the incorporation of the company known as DELCO (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) in 1909. The Barn Gang moved out of the barn to larger facilities soon after. Deeds eventually sold his Central Avenue home. In 1962, the home and barn were going to be torn down to make way for an apartment building. The Kettering Historical Society, which coincidentally formed the same year, found out about the fate of the barn and had it moved to Prugh Park (now Indian Riffle Park) in Kettering. There it remained for the next ten years. In 1973, shortly after the the city of Kettering gave the society (which became the Kettering-Moraine Historical Society) its former government building to use as its museum, Deeds Barn was moved to the site near the GM Truck Plant. This footage, shot on Super 8 film, documents that move. In 2008, the Kettering-Moraine Museum closed and Deeds Barn was moved to Carillon Historical Park. It is now inside the park's Heritage Center for Dayton Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship as it is a symbol of the inventive spirit that makes Dayton great.

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