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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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...that John Baldwin (pictured) named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip?
...that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
...that although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
...that Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879?

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...that the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge (pictured) in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized?
...that the United States National Weather Service's StormReady program has been credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in Van Wert County, Ohio in 2002?
...that Gordon K. Bush Airport was built to serve Ohio University and serves as the base for its department of aviation?
...that the Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?

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...that it took an act of the Ohio General Assembly in 1894 to settle a property dispute regarding the Pennsylvania Company's use of the state-owned Walhonding Canal (pictured) lands for one of the its railroads?
...that a Knox County, Ohio, tradition credits members of the Snowden Family Band with writing the song "Dixie"?
...that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?
...that Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?

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...that 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?
...that Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten All-American football players from Washinton High School in Massillon, Ohio?
...that Mount Rumpke is a landfill, that at 1,045 feet above sea level, it is the second highest point in Ohio?
...that the British General John Reid, second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians, was also a proficient flute-player and a musical composer?

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...that Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?
...that during the Hardin County onion pickers strike in 1934, anti-union vigilantes seized control of the town of McGuffey, Ohio, for a day?
...that the Auto-Lite Strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo," a five-day melee between 6,000 striking workers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard that left two dead and more than 200 injured?
...that the economy of Ohio includes the world's largest plants for processing yogurt, soup, ketchup and frozen pizza?