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...that 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?
...that the Warren County Canal was a twenty-mile long canal in Ohio that linked Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal, which operated only eight unprofitable years?
...that Ohio's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University?
...that 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?

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