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Ohio History
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land we call Ohio today was part the Northwest Territory that
the United States won by defeating the British in the
Revolutionary War. Ohio was admitted into the Union as the 17th
state in 1803. The state gets its name from the river that forms
its southern border. Ohio is an Iroquois word meaning "great
water." The capital of the "Buckeye State" is Columbus, and, not
surprisingly, the state tree is the buckeye. Highly populated,
Ohio is situated between the Eastern Seaboard and the Midwest,
and is known for the fact that eight presidents were either born
or lived there. The flower is the scarlet carnation. |
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