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Dublin (pop. 31,392) is home to Wendy’s International, owner of Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers and one of the world’s largest restaurant franchising companies.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

Ohio was the site of two Civil War battles—Buffington Island and Salineville—both precipitated by a Confederate raid led by Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan.

first appeared: 4/20/2003

In the 1930s, attractions at the Miakonda Boy Scout Camp in Sylvania (pop. 18,670) included the world’s longest swimming pool—480-feet-long built in a ravine—and a tree house campsite of eight tree houses outfitted with built-in bunks.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

A desire to sing harmony in worship was one reason Welsh immigrants founded Venedocia (pop. 160) in 1848. They hold a Gymanfa Ganu, a hymn-singing festival, each Labor Day.

first appeared: 4/6/2003

Built from 1837 to 1845, the 13,500-acre Grand Lake in St. Marys (pop. 8,342) was at the time the largest man-made reservoir in the world and remains the state’s largest.

first appeared: 3/30/2003

In 1853, Cincinnati became the first U.S. city with a paid professional fire department.

first appeared: 3/23/2003

The first Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers restaurant opened in Columbus on Nov. 15, 1969. The restaurant, decorated now as a museum of Wendy’s history, continues to serve customers.

first appeared: 3/16/2003

Every March 15, residents in Hinckley welcome the return of buzzards to Buzzards Roost at Hinckley Reservation. One explanation for the migration is a December 1818 communitywide hunt for varmints attacking farm stock and when the carcasses thawed the next March, the buzzards came to dine and roost.

first appeared: 3/9/2003

Encompassing 17,229 acres, Salt Fork State Park in Lore City (pop. 305) is Ohio’s largest state park.

first appeared: 3/2/2003

Erie County and Huron County are known as “the Firelands,” a term from the Revolutionary War when the area belonged to the Connecticut Western Reserve. After British troops burned towns in Connecticut, the homeless moved here.

first appeared: 2/23/2003

Artist Scott Hagan, a Belmont County native, painted a 20-by-20-foot red, white, and blue Ohio Bicentennial logo on a barn in each of the 88 counties for this year’s celebration.

first appeared: 2/16/2003

Nelsonville (pop. 5,230) is the hometown of award-winning actress Sarah Jessica Parker. She was born March 25, 1965, and made her Broadway debut in 1976.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

A six-mile hiking trail at Hocking Hills State Park in Logan (pop. 6,704) is named for Grandma Emma Gatewood, who hiked the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail three times.

first appeared: 2/2/2003

In 1886, Charles Martin Hall, a graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin (pop. 8,195), passed an electric current through aluminum ore, discovering an inexpensive way to produce aluminum. In 1888, he helped found the Pittsburgh Reduction Co.—later named the Aluminum Company of America—and served as its vice president.

first appeared: 1/26/2003

Actor Jamie Farr, best known for his role as Maxwell Klinger in the 1970s television sitcom M*A*S*H, was born Jameel Joseph Farah on July 1, 1934, in Toledo.

first appeared: 1/19/2003

Steubenville (pop. 19,015) was founded in 1797 on the ruins of Fort Steuben, established a decade earlier to protect surveyors of the Northwest Territory.

first appeared: 1/12/2003

Singer and actress Doris Day was born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff on April 3, 1924, in Cincinnati.

first appeared: 1/5/2003

The Ohio River Scenic Byway, which stretches 462 miles from Cleves (pop. 2,790) to East Liverpool (pop. 13,089), is the longest scenic byway within a single state.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

Ohio is home to the world’s largest Amish population—with more than 35,000 “plain people” living in the state.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

Lima-based Rudolph Foods Co. is the world’s largest producer of pork rind products, making 100 million pounds of the snack food each year.

first appeared: 12/15/2002

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