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• a significant Fort Ancient archaeological site is located on a sod farm in southwestern Ohio?
• northwestern Ohio's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp?
• the United States National Weather Service's StormReady program was credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in Van Wert County, Ohio in 2002?
• a schoolteacher from the U.S. state of Ohio donated the first 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Mary Jane Thurston State Park, named in her honor?
• The Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
• Van Buren State Park in Ohio has family, large group, and equestrian camping areas, the latter with manure bins and picket lines?
• Wheeling Creek (pictured) in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank?
• the Christopher Walker Farm was a center for hog raising in western Ohio?
• the Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries?
• the former Youngstown and Southern Railway, Ohio's last interurban, was out of service for five years after being illegally sold to a scrap dealer?
• the land that became Quail Hollow State Park was owned by only two families between 1820 and its sale to Ohio as a park in 1975?
• there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio?
• the first railroad steam locomotive built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was also the first locomotive to operate in the U.S. state of Ohio?
• the Warren County Canal was a twenty-mile long canal in Ohio that linked Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal and which operated only eight unprofitable years?
• the Society for Savings Building (pictured), a high-rise building in Cleveland, is widely considered to be the first modern skyscraper in the state of Ohio?
• the Van Wert Bandstand (pictured) is the only extant historic bandstand in western Ohio?
• Thomas Milton Gatch (pictured), an Ohioan educator and politician, was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree?
• St. Henry's Catholic Church (pictured) in rural St. Henry has been described as the most costly church in northwestern Ohio?
• Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
• Ohio's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University?
• Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County, Ohio, to have ever received the Medal of Honor?
• microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans?
• Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
• Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad?
• Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio, USA, is home to both Little Beaver Creek, a National Scenic River, and a restored 1837 mill?
• Buck Creek State Park in Ohio contains a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead, and patches of original prairie?
• Jackson Lake State Park in Ohio, USA, is now the location of a thriving second growth forest, but was once home to the iron, coal and salt industries?
• Scott Shafer, hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator, started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio?
• Independence Dam State Park in Defiance County, Ohio, is named for a dam built for the Miami and Erie Canal and features some of the canal's ruins?
• Herman Ashworth was the fourth person to drop his appeals since the U.S. state of Ohio resumed the death penalty in 1999?
• Court Avenue, Ohio, was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete?
• Delaware State Park is not in the U.S. state of Delaware but rather in Ohio?
• actor and broadcaster Dean Miller, who played the son-in-law on CBS's December Bride, later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio?

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