Dayton

Dayton, the capital of Montgomery county, Ohio, U.S. America, 66 miles S.W. of Columbus, and at the junction of the Mad and the Miami rivers. It is an important and active industrial city, and is a centre of railway communication. It is well built, and has a court-house formed upon the model of the Parthenon. Its products are beer, cotton, oil, paper, machines and agricultural implements, and wool.