Cincy Red Stockings

Baseball has been played in the United States since the early 1800s. The game developed from the English sport called rounders. The first recorded baseball game was played on June 19, 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Newark Earthworks

The Hopewell people lived in Ohio from 100 B.C to 500 A.D. They are best known for building mounds shaped like squares, parallel lines, circles and rectangles. The purpose of the mounds is unknown, but they could have been used for religious and burial ceremonies or as gathering places.

There are three men with ties to Ohio who made were major innovators in American education during the 19th century. They are said to have revolutionized the teaching of the “Three R’s” of elementary education –“readin, ritin, and rithmetic”. These men were William Holmes McGuffey, Platt Roger Spencer and Joseph Ray.

Big Muskie was a Bucyrus-Erie walking dragline, owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company and built by the Bucyrus-Erie Company. She was the world’s largest moving land machine and was considered one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world. Big Muskie weighed 27-million- pounds. That is more than the weight of 13,000 cars!

After the War of 1812, many settlers moved to Ohio. Some came by boat, while others came by wagon. By 1820, the new state of Ohio had grown to a population of 5,000. There was not much reliable transportation at that time.

Did you know that there are more than 42,000 highway bridges in Ohio? The state
of Ohio has the second largest number of bridges in the United States. One of the
most unique bridges in the state is the Y Bridge located in Zanesville. A Y bridge is
shaped like the letter “y.”

Confederate General John Hunt Morgan led cavalrymen into battle in southwest
Ohio in July 1863. His men, also known as Morgan’s Raiders, included Morgan’s
younger brothers Calvin, Richard, Charleton and Thomas. His Chief of Staff was his
brother-in-law Colonel Basil W. Duke.

Columbus is the capital of Ohio. But did you know that Ohio had two other capitals
before Columbus was permanently chosen as the location? The first capital of Ohio was Chillicothe. It was the capital city from 1803 to 1809. In 1809 the capital was moved to Zanesville. The capital was moved back to Chillicothe in 1812, and in 1816 Columbus became the permanent state capital of Ohio.

It was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, and a victory for the United
States.The Battle of Fallen Timbers took place on August 20, 1794, along the Maumee
River, not far from present-day Toledo. A storm in the area had knocked down and destroyed many trees where the battle took place, which is how Fallen Timbers got its name.

Tecumseh was born on March 9, 1768, along the Mad River near Springfield, Ohio. His parents were Pucksinwa, a famous Shawnee war chief, and Methotasa. The name Tecumseh means “Panther Passing Across the Sky.”

The National Cash Register Company was founded by John H. Patterson in 1884 in
Dayton, Ohio. It was formerly, the National Manufacturing Company before Patterson
bought out the other investors of the company and founded the National Cash Register
Company

Located in Columbus, Ohio, Camp Chase was one of the five largest prisons in the North for Confederate prisoners of war. It has been reported that as many as 150,000 Union soldiers and 25,000 Confederate Army prisoners came through the prison during the years 1861-1865.

Ohioans appear often in the history of America’s aviation and aerospace development. These contributions are shown in the exhibits of the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum

Charles F. Kettering was born on August 29, 1876 in Loudonville, Ohio. Kettering lived
on a farm in Ashland, Ohio with his family.

Charles F. Richter was born on April 26, 1900 on a farm near Hamilton, Ohio. He and his mother moved to Los Angeles in 1916 and he attended the University of Southern California until 1917. Richter then entered Stanford University in 1920 where he studied physics. He received his PH.D from the California Institute of Technology in
1928.

Granville T. Woods was born to Tailer and Martha Woods in Columbus, Ohio on April 23, 1856. Born a few years before the Civil War began, Woods was a free black man. Although he was born free, Ohio still had “Black Codes.”

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811. She was the daughter of a Congregational minister named Lyman Beecher & Roxana Foote Beecher.

Mary Ann Ball was born July 19, 1817 to Hiram and Annie Ball in Knox County, Ohio. The family lived along the Kokosing River in an area then known as Owl Creek. Mary Ann’s mother died when she was one year old.

In 1814, Silas Thorla and Robert McKee drilled a hole near Caldwell, Ohio. Hoping to find an underground salty spring, they drilled a well approximately 475-feet-deep.

The Clay Corridor is a part of Southeastern Ohio which includes Muskingum, Perry and Athens counties. A lot of pottery is made in this region because the clay is good and is easy to dig.

Dr. Ebenezer Woodward had an idea to open a public entertainment venue in downtown Mount Vernon, Ohio. His idea was to bring amusements, such as vaudeville, minstrel shows, lectures and concerts to the community