Before embarking on her enterprise Mrs. Deeds viewed many carillons at home and abroad and made a careful study of bells. The initial requirement was to find a site which would provide the best ultimate results from carillon music without echo and the jumbling of tone. Early in her planning Mrs. Deeds considered Deeds Park at the junction of the Miami River and Mad River. This park—a gift of Colonel Deeds to the city of Dayton—would have made an appropriate setting. The idea was reluctantly abandoned because of interfering noises and sound deflection which would occur in the area. Finally Mrs. Deeds decided upon a site in the triangular area located between Patterson Boulevard and Carillon Boulevard almost adjacent to Old River, The National Cash Register Company recreational park. [Illustration: The beautiful bronze door at the Carillon is more than an entranceway. In the cherished words of Longfellow’s “Christmas Bells” it expresses the spirit in which the Carillon was conceived and dedicated to the service of the people ... “With Peace on Earth, good will to men.”] IT WAS AS IF AN EARTHQUAKE RENT THE HEARTHSTONES OF A CONTINENT AND MADE FORLORN THE HOUSEHOLDS BORN OF PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TO MEN AND IN DESPAIR I BOWED MY HEAD THERE IS NO PEACE ON EARTH I SAID FOR HATE IS STRONG AND MOCKS THE SONG OF PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TO MEN THEN PEALED THE BELLS MORE LOUD AND DEEP GOD IS NOT DEAD NOR DOES HE SLEEP THE WRONG SHALL FAIL THE RIGHT PREVAIL WITH PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TO MEN LONGFELLOW The sixty-one acres comprised in Carillon Park represent a notable piece of reclamation. For many years it was periodically flooded and became a bushy swamp breeding mosquitoes and germs. It was one of Dayton’s eyesores in addition to being a menace to health. The decision to build the Deeds Carillon led to its transformation. Within a year the one-time “dismal swamp” emerged as an ideal pleasure ground equipped with a parking space for hundreds of motor cars. In this lovely, wooded, and verdant environment the citizens of Dayton and all others who come, relax and enjoy the music of the carillon bells.