Ohio

                                                                          

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Nickname: Buckeye
Song: "Beautiful Ohio"
Motto: With God, All Things Are Possible          
Flower: Scarlet Carnation
Tree: Buckeye
Bird: Cardinal
Population: *10,847,115
Places to visit:
Pro Football Hall of Fame
American Classical Music Hall of Fame
London Candies
Rock And Roll Hall
Broad Run Cheese
Air stream

Important Cities (*with pop.)

 

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Columbus (632,910)
Cleveland (505,616)
Cincinnati (364,040)
Toledo (332,943)
Akron (223,019)

State History

 

 

 

 

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11,000 B.C. First people enter what is now Ohio
800 B.C. Mound builders make villages and mounds
A.D.1600 Mound builders disappear
1788 Marietta, Ohio 's first white settlement, is built
1803 Ohio becomes the 17th state
1811 The first steamboat travels the Ohio River
1852Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin
1870 Benjamin Goodrich starts Ohio's first rubber factory
1913 Ohio's largest recorded flood hits the state
1941 Thousands of women take jobs in Ohio's factories
1980 Cleveland begins to rebuild its downtown

Important People

 

 

 

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Clark Gable(1901-1960)

Steven Spielberg (born 1947) 

Cy Young (1867-1955)

Pete Rose (born1941)

Jesse Owens (1913-1980)

Industry

 

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Services: 54%
Manufacturing: 24%
Government: 15%
Construction: 4%
Agriculture: 3%

*census 1990.

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