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Wright Brothers Home Base

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Orville Wright was born here on Hawthorne Street in 1871, and Wilbur Wright died here in 1912. The brothers who would one day create a flying machine lived most of their lives in an ordinary eight-room home with no indoor bathroom, together with their father and their youngest sister Katharine, on Bishop Wright's small lot.
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