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The Y Bridge in Zanesville (pop. 27,365) was first built in 1814 to span the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers. Ripley’s Believe It or Not proclaimed it the only bridge in the world which you can cross and still be on the same side of the river.

first appeared: 2/1/2004

The state tree, the buckeye, is named for its large brown seeds that vaguely resemble the eye of a male deer. The seeds are toxic.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

A Cleveland inventor, Garrett Morgan, in 1923 was issued a patent for an inexpensive, automatic traffic signal, which was the forerunner of today’s stoplights.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The state record muskellunge was caught by Joe D. Lykins of Piedmont on Piedmont Lake in April 1972. It weighed 55 pounds and was 50 inches long.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

The 1938 Ohio State Grange Cookbook included a recipe for wallpaper cleaner containing vinegar, motor oil, ammonia, salt and flour.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

Mount Gilead (pop. 3,290) is host to the world’s largest gourd festival each October and includes a festival of music played on gourd instruments.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

Woodward Opera House in Mount Vernon (pop. 14,375) stars as one of the nation’s oldest opera houses. The first documented performance was in 1851.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

Founded in 1852, Findlay Market in Cincinnati is one of the nation’s oldest open-air public markets.

first appeared: 12/14/2003

Cathy Guisewite, whose Cathy cartoon about a single career woman debuted in 1976, was born in 1950 in Dayton.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

After photographing boys racing in their homemade engine-less cars in 1933 for the Dayton Daily News, Myron Scott approached his boss with an idea for a soap box derby. The race takes off each July in Akron.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

Illustrator and cartoonist Daniel Carter Beard co-founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 and served as its first national commissioner. Beard, who was known to scouts as “Uncle Dan,” was born in 1850 in Cincinnati.

first appeared: 11/23/2003

In 1883, Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first African-American to play major league baseball when he signed with the Toledo Blue Stockings. He was born in 1856 in Mount Pleasant (pop. 535).

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Snippets of barbershop history, including barber chairs, poles, shaving mugs and razors, are displayed at the Barber Museum and Hall of Fame in Canal Winchester (pop. 4,478).

first appeared: 11/9/2003

A 1935 chance meeting between two alcoholics, Dr. Robert Smith, an Akron surgeon, and William Wilson, a New York stockbroker in Akron for a business trip, led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.

first appeared: 11/2/2003

In 1908, James Murray Spangler, a janitor in Canton, patented a portable electric vacuum cleaner, the first to use a cloth filter bag and attachments.

first appeared: 10/26/2003

Abuzz since the 1920s, Stoller’s Honey in Latty (pop. 200) processes millions of pounds of honey annually.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

Fifteen Swiss cheese factories in and around Sugarcreek (pop. 2,174) produce more than 10 million pounds annually. The state ranks first in Swiss cheese production.

first appeared: 10/12/2003

Bactrian camels and fringe-eared oryx roam the 10,000-acre Wilds near Cumberland (pop. 402), the nation’s largest conservation facility for endangered wildlife.

first appeared: 10/5/2003

Sculptor Malcolm Cochran planted 109 human-sized concrete ears of corn in Sam and Eulalia Frantz Park in Dublin (pop. 31,392) in 1994.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

One of history’s most successful jockeys, Eddie Arcaro won two Triple Crowns riding Whirlaway (1941) and Citation (1948). Arcaro was born in 1916 in Cincinnati.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

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