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Phil Donahue, often credited with pioneering the talk-show format with audience participation, originated his Emmy Award-winning Phil Donahue Show in 1967 in Dayton. The show was broadcast until 1996. Donahue was born in 1935 in Cleveland.

first appeared: 9/25/2005

Tracing its history to a company founded in 1855, the Holtkamp Organ Co. in Cleveland is among America’s oldest and most respected pipe organ manufacturers. The company’s team of 20 skilled craftsmen works a combined total of 7,000 hours building each organ, producing only four to six a year.

first appeared: 9/18/2005

The Jack Nicklaus Museum, located in Ohio State University’s sports complex in Columbus, Nicklaus’ hometown, showcases the golf superstar’s career through exhibits of trophies, photographs and mementos from his 20 major championships and 100 worldwide tournament victories.

first appeared: 9/11/2005

The nation’s first planned railroad commuter town, Glendale (pop. 2,188) was incorporated in 1855. When the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad was being built, developers purchased land 14 miles north of Cincinnati to create the town.

first appeared: 8/28/2005

Attendance skyrocketed at the Columbus Zoo in 1956 after the birth of Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity. The baby gorilla, whose name was chosen in a contest and is short for "Columbus," became an instant celebrity and today is a great-grandmother.

first appeared: 8/14/2005

James A. Garfield conducted the nation’s first successful "front porch campaign" while running for president in 1880. Instead of hitting the campaign trail, the candidate stayed at his home, Lawnfield, in Mentor (pop. 50,278) where he visited with voters and reporters on his front porch.

first appeared: 7/31/2005

Wittich’s Candy, the state’s oldest family-owned confectionary, has been sweetening Circleville (pop. 13,485) since 1840. Hand-dipped chocolates can be savored with ice cream at the shop’s old-fashioned soda fountain.

first appeared: 7/17/2005

Visitors can glide along a restored section of the Miami and Erie Canal in an authentic mule-drawn canal boat of the mid-1800s at Providence Park in Grand Rapids (pop. 1,002). The boat passes Ludwig Mill, a working sawmill and gristmill.

first appeared: 6/19/2005

Nurse Mary Bickerdyke, born near Mount Vernon (pop. 14,375) in 1817, was affectionately called "Mother Bickerdyke" by the Union soldiers she tended. Known for her bravery, she was present at the Battle of Shiloh and many other Civil War engagements.

first appeared: 6/5/2005

In 1903, glass blower Michael Joseph Owens invented the first automatic machine to make glass bottles and founded the Owens Bottle Co. in Toledo. Owens’ machine made nine uniform bottles a minute and revolutionized the glass industry. Today’s machines can produce 720 bottles a minute.

first appeared: 5/22/2005

From butter churns to Fels Naptha laundry soap, you can find it at Lehman’s Hardware in Kidron. Opened in 1955 to serve the local Amish community, the Wayne County store sells hand-powered kitchen appliances and tools, wood-burning stoves, and treadle sewing machines.

first appeared: 5/8/2005

Here’s an event to stick on your calendar: the Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival June 17-19 showcases fashions, floats and more made from Duck brand duct tape. Avon (pop. 11,446) is the self-proclaimed "Duct Tape Capital" and headquarters for Henkel Consumer Adhesives, marketer of Duck tape.

first appeared: 4/24/2005

Norman Vincent Peale, born in 1898 in Bowersville (pop. 290), encouraged millions of readers with his 1952 bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking.

first appeared: 4/10/2005

Pop art sculptors Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created Cleveland’s 48-foot-long rubber stamp with the word "free," in backward letters. Dedicated in 1991, the stamp lies on its side, as though it tumbled over, in Willard Park.

first appeared: 3/27/2005

Perrysburg (pop. 16,945) was named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, who defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

first appeared: 3/13/2005

Columbus’ Borden Co. introduced Cascorez Glue in 1947 and soon switched its name to Elmer’s Glue-All.

first appeared: 2/27/2005

Haydenville (pop. 67) was founded in 1852 by industrialist Peter Hayden who employed all the residents and owned all of the businesses and buildings. In the early 1900s, the National Fireproofing Co. bought the town and continued to own it and employ its residents until the 1960s. The Hocking County town of 200 acres and 121 buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

first appeared: 2/13/2005

The Lincoln Highway National Museum and Archives in Galion (pop. 11,341) charts the history of the nation’s first paved coast-to-coast highway, which was planned in 1913.

first appeared: 1/30/2005

Fort Recovery (pop. 1,273) is built on the site of a military fort used by Gen. Anthony Wayne. After his decisive victory over an American Indian confederation at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, the tribes signed the Treaty of Greenville the following year, opening the Northwest Territory to settlement.

first appeared: 1/16/2005

Broadcaster Hugh Downs of Akron served as co-anchor of the ABC news program 20/20 from 1978 to 1999. From 1985 to 2004, he held the record for the greatest number of hours on network commercial television.

first appeared: 1/2/2005

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