State Facts

[Cincy'sMom]

Originally posted by lovemyshiba


~state dog--Great Dane

I did not know state's how a state dog- that's cool!

A few Ohio facts:
Nickname: The Buckeye State
State Bird-Cardinal
State beverage- Tomato juice
Sate Animal- White-Tailed deer
State Fossil- Trilobite
State Gemstone-Flint
State Insect-Lady Bug
State Motto: "With God, All Things Are Possible"
State Name: comes from the Ohio River. It is an Iroquoian word meaning "great river"
State seal:

State Song: Beautiful Ohio
State Tree: Buckeye
State Wildflower: White Trillium

Geography:
The state of Ohio encompasses 41,330 square miles.
Ohio contains 88 counties.
Ashtabula is Ohio’s largest county with 711 square miles.
Lake is Ohio’s smallest county with 232 square miles.
Highest geographical point is Campbell Hill located in Bellefontaine at 1,550 ft.
Lowest geographical point is the Ohio River at 433 ft.
The geographic center of the state is located in Centerburg
in Knox County.

Hisotorical Facts:
-Marietta was Ohio’s first permanent settlement. It was founded in 1788 by General Rufus Putnam and named in honor of Marie Antoinette, then queen of France.

-Chillicothe was Ohio’s first capital. The Chillicothe statehouse was the first stone building erected in Ohio.

-The nation’s first interracial, coeducational college, Oberlin College, was founded in Oberlin in 1833.

-Cleveland became the world’s first city to be lighted
electrically in 1879 when Charles Brush successfully demonstrated arc lights on the streets.
-Ohio University, founded in 1804 in Athens, was the first university in Ohio and the Northwest Territory.

-In Marietta, John Gilman first used x-rays in surgery in 1896.

-8 Former President's were born inOhio, giving the state the nickname "the Mother of Presidents"
The 8 are: William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft, and Warren G. Harding