Ohio
By Richard Marx
History
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Ohio was the 17th state to join the Union. The
date was March 1st 1803.
The first people to see Ohio lived there in the
last centuries of the Ice Age. They hunted
Mammoth.
Ohio has many prehistoric Indian sites
French explorers were the first Europeans in
Ohio
Geography
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Ohio caves
caves were made by underground
Ohio
streams. The water wore away the rock
leaving tunnels.
Highest point: Campbell Hill at 1,550 feet (472
meters)
Ohio Caverns is Ohio's largest cave
Lowest point: along the Ohio River in Hamilton
County at 433 feet (144.3 meters)
Meteorology
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The average temperature in Columbus (Ohio's
capital) in January 2009 was 25ºF
The highest temperature in Ohio happened on
July 21, 1934. The temperature was 113º
(45ºC)
The lowest temperature in Ohio happened on
February 10, 1899. The temperature was 39ºF (-39ºC)
Famous Ohioans
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Neil Armstrong-astronaut
Willard Bennett-inventor
William Burton-inventor
Nancy Cartwright-voice of Bart Simpson
Tomes Edison-inventor
Benjamin Harrison-U.S. president
William Taft-U.S. President
James Garfield-U.S. president
Fun Facts
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Ohio is called the buckeye state
Ohio Has A zoo just for bugs
Ohio was the birthplace of 7 presidents
Cleaveland, Ohio, named after a general was
respelled Cleveland in 1832. The local
newspaper needed to fit the name on the
masthead
Cleveland is home to the Rock and Roll hall of
fame
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Ohio is home to the Pro Football hall of fame
The Drew Carey Show is set in Cleveland and
has a theme song Cleveland Rocks
Montgomery Inn ships 20,000 packages of ribs
to barbecue lovers around the country
If you want to see what it would of been like in
1830 Ohio go to Historic Sauder Village
Have you heard of the store Kroger's, it what
founded in Ohio
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Population- 11,478,000
Capital- Columbus
State flower-scarlet carnation
State Bird-cardinal
State Song-Beautiful Ohio
State Motto-with god all things are possible
Size in land area-40,948 square miles
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The first ambulance service was made in Ohio
in 1865
Cincinnati had the first professional city fire
department
Cincinnati Reds were the first professional
baseball team
Akron was the first city to use police cars
The first full time automobile service station was
opened in 1899 in Ohio
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Oberlin College was founded in1833. It was the
first interracial and coeducational college in the
United State