Wright Cycle Company

Ohio


Browse exhibits in the original building where Wilbur and Orville developed bikes and aviation ideas.

Beside it is the Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center. Inside you'll learn how the Wright brothers had their printing business here and published The Tattler newspaper by African American writer and activist Paul Lawrence Dunbar.


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