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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 |
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Columbus (632,910) Cleveland (505,616) Cincinnati (364,040) Toledo (332,943) Akron (223,019) |
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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 |
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Gable(1901-1960) Steven Spielberg (born 1947) Cy Young (1867-1955) Pete Rose (born1941) Jesse Owens (1913-1980) |
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Services: 54% Manufacturing: 24% Government: 15% Construction: 4% Agriculture: 3% |
*census 1990.
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