Ohio: Did You Know

Ohio has the largest Amish population of any state in the nation.
Oberlin College, (about 40 minutes west of Cleveland) founded in 1833, was the first interracial and coeducational college in the United States. 
Seven United States presidents were born in Ohio: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft, and Warren G. Harding.
Ohio is dubbed the birthplace of aviation pioneers.  It is the birth place of the Wright Brothers, John Glen, Neil Armstrong, and 23 other astronauts (7% of all American astronauts to have ever traveled beyond their earthly bonds). 
Life Savers candy was invented by Clarence Crane of Garrettsville, Ohio in 1912. 
Ohio’s state flag is not a rectangle like other flags—it’s a pennant design, and it’s the only state flag in the United States with that design. 
The state of Ohio was named after the river 'Ohio'. The Ohio river was named for the Iroquois word, “O-Y-O,” meaning “great river.”
Cuyahoga River of Ohio was nicknamed “The River That Caught Fire” as the river has caught on fire at least 13 times. The river's pollution and burning covered extensively in the press and the coverage spurred the environmental movement which eventually led to the establishment of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Great Lakes Brewery has a beer called "Burning River" to pay tribute.
Jim Rhodes was an American Republican politician from Ohio, and as of 2006 one of only six US state governors to serve 4 four-year terms in office.  As governor in 1970, he sent National Guard troops onto the Kent State University campus, resulting in the shooting of students on May 4. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.  Cleveland State University has a dormitory named in his honor.
The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly part of northeastern region of Ohio. Following the American Revolutionary War, Connecticut gave up claim to some of its western lands, but initially sold the Western Reserve to developers. It finally ceded control of this portion to the United States and the area was organized under the Northwest Territory until Ohio was admitted as a state. "Western Reserve" is referred to in numerous institutional names.