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The nation’s last known steam-powered, sternwheel towboat, the W.P. Snyder Jr., is docked at the Ohio River Museum in Marietta (pop. 14,515). Towboats pulled barges.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

Disillusioned by bad luck in California’s 1849 gold rush, returning Ohioans found small amounts of gold in Clear Fork Creek near Bellville (pop. 1,773). The gold was deposited there thousands of years before by glaciers formed in Canada.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

The black rat snake is Ohio’s largest snake, growing up to 6 feet long. They are harmless to people but play an important role in controlling rodents.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

The first use of concrete in the United States to pave a street was in Bellefontaine (pop. 13,069) in 1891. Prior to that, most roads were paved with logs, planks, gravel, or nothing.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

The first public library in Conneaut (pop. 12,485) began in 1905 as the Peoples Free Library Association, whose members were dedicated to the advancement of learning through lending reading materials.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

Gov. Bob Taft is the great-grandson of William Howard Taft, the nation’s 27th president and former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

William Clark Gable, the undisputed “King of Hollywood,” was born in Cadiz (pop. 3,308) on Feb. 1, 1901. He worked in a tire factory and as a lumberjack before appearing in about 70 films, including Gone With The Wind in which he played the dashing Rhett Butler.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

Adopted in 1959, the state’s motto is “With God all things are possible.”

first appeared: 1/13/2002

Broadcast pioneer, author, and world traveler Lowell Thomas was born in Woodington, Ohio, on April 6, 1892.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

The first use of a parachute in an emergency occurred Oct. 20, 1922, when Lt. Harold Harris bailed out of an airplane that began to fall apart during mock combat over Dayton. Bailing out 2,500 feet above the ground, Harris opened his parachute at 500 feet and landed safely.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Clarence “Bevo” Francis of Hammondsville holds the national record for most points scored in a single basketball game. Playing for Rio Grande College of Rio Grande (pop. 915), Francis scored 116 points against Ashland (Ky.) Junior College on Jan. 8, 1953.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

A stretch of concrete laid in 1893 in Bellefountaine (pop. 13,069) was the first use of Portland cement in a public road construction project in the nation.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

In 1956, Ohio’s Division of Wildlife reintroduced wild turkeys, which had last been seen in the state in 1904. Now, about 145,000 of the birds make their home across Ohio.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

The Ohio Division of Forestry lists 56 trees as being common in Ohio, including two types of buckeyes—the tree for which the state is nicknamed.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

Called the “Black Thomas Edison,” Granville T. Woods was born in Columbus in 1856 and invented automatic railroad brakes, electric incubators, and a telegraph that communicated with moving trains.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

The 1,227-foot-long Ohio Electric Railroad Bridge at Waterville (pop. 4,828) was one of the world’s longest railroad bridges when it was built in 1907.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Rozzi Famous Fireworks manufactures about 100,000 aerial fireworks shells a year at its plant in Loveland (pop. 11,677). The company, founded in 1895 in Pennsylvania, moved to Loveland in the 1930s.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

Born Nov. 25, 1903, in Cincinnati, William DeHart Hubbard was the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event for his long jump victory in 1924.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

When Florence Allen of Ashtabula (pop. 20,962) suffered a pinched nerve that kept her from playing music professionally, she turned to studying law. In 1922, Allen became the first woman to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court and in 1934 was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals where she served for 25 years.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

Born in Hicksville (pop. 3,649), Daeida Hartell married prohibitionist H.H. Wilcox and moved to California in 1883. They created a residential subdivision named Hollywood in 1887.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

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