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The state’s first television station, WEWS-TV in Cleveland, began broadcasting in 1947 and carried its first live remote of a Cleveland Indians baseball game the next year during the World Series.

first appeared: 6/13/2004

Opened in 1845, stair-step locks in Lockington (pop. 208) lowered boats on the Miami and Erie Canal to Loramie Creek and are among the state’s best-preserved locks.

first appeared: 6/6/2004

Twenty-one multi-gauge model trains chug at Train-O-Rama in Marblehead (pop. 762), the state’s largest operating railroad display.

first appeared: 5/30/2004

In 1920, Jim Bagby of the Cleveland Indians became the first pitcher to hit a home run in a World Series game.

first appeared: 5/23/2004

In 1903, Irvin Westheimer, a Cincinnati businessman, saw a boy rummaging for food in a trash can. He fed and befriended the boy and urged his friends to form an association of “big brothers,” which inspired the Big Brothers Big Sisters youth mentoring organization.

first appeared: 5/16/2004

Ernest “Mooney” Warther’s fascination with trains can be seen in his intricate working carvings of 64 steam locomotives at Warther Carvings museum in Dover (pop. 12,210).

first appeared: 5/9/2004

Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927 in Dayton. At the time of her death in 1996, Bombeck’s syndicated column appeared in 900 newspapers.

first appeared: 5/2/2004

Herb gardeners and cooks savor thyme in Gahanna (pop. 32,636), “Herb Capital of Ohio,” and home to the Ohio Herb Education Center.

first appeared: 4/25/2004

Ohio leads the nation in tomato juice production and adopted it as the state beverage in 1965.

first appeared: 4/18/2004

Pawpaw trees flourish near Albany (pop. 808), where the mango-like fruit is featured in an annual festival that includes a cook-off, eating contest and best pawpaw competition each September.

first appeared: 4/11/2004

Opened to the public in 1994, The Wilds is the largest animal preserve in North America and encompasses almost 10,000 acres of reclaimed mined land near Cumberland (pop. 402).

first appeared: 4/4/2004

Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta (pop. 9,474), the first human to set foot on the moon, was granted his pilot’s license at age 16.

first appeared: 3/28/2004

The Dayton-based McCoys’ 1965 hit song Hang On Sloopy was named the official state rock song 20 years later.

first appeared: 3/21/2004

Of the roughly 80,000 farms dotting the state’s landscape, about 4,800 are managed by women.

first appeared: 3/14/2004

On the eve of its 2003 bicentennial, Ohio discovered that Congress forgot to vote on statehood in 1803, and didn’t formally do so until 1953. That makes it the 47th state, not the 17th, but it celebrated the bicentennial anyway rather than wait another 150 years.

first appeared: 3/7/2004

The state credits Harry M. Stevens of Niles (pop. 21,128) as being the first person to think of wrapping up a frankfurter in a piece of bread—later a roll—and calling it a hot dog. It is said he coined the name after seeing a caricature of a frankfurter made to look like a dachshund in the New York Daily Times in 1900.

first appeared: 2/29/2004

In 1750, Christopher Gist, a surveyor, reported, “This Ohio Country is rich land . . . abounding with turkeys, deer, elk and most sorts of game, particularly buffaloes. It wants nothing but cultivation to make it a most delightful country.”

first appeared: 2/22/2004

Clarence Crane, a chocolate maker in Cleveland, invented Life Savers candy in 1912.

first appeared: 2/22/2004

The 1938 edition of the Ohio State Grange Cookbook told readers how to determine temperatures in the new gas ovens by seeing how long it took to brown flour in the bottom of a pie pan.

first appeared: 2/15/2004

The nation’s first interracial, coeducational college, Oberlin College, was founded in Oberlin (pop. 8,195) in 1833.

first appeared: 2/8/2004

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