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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
Do you know why Ohio is where it is? Because there was a river and some mountains and some one was like "okay that can be a state."
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Well, you're just a tad off there. No mountains in Ohio -- but some really pretty rolling hills in the S.E.
Of course the real reason for Ohio is a bunch of Revolunary War heros who were deeded land in lieu of pay for their war service, who formed the Ohio Company and settled the Northwest Territory. My Alma Mater was chartered in the same ordinance that formed the territory.
Oh, and it was some Ohioans who helped the U.S. Leigon defeat the Iriquois Confederacy and British Army to help secure the new nation from attack at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. That battle was fought on the farm where my wife grew up. Her father owned the land. It's a park now.
In the ensuing years, Ohio has produced four U.S. Presidents, has more cities in the major TV markets than any other state in the union, given us the Wright Brothers, an excellent state university system -- including the oldest public university West of the Allegheny/Apalachian Mountains (Ohio University, chartered in 1787 and founded in 1804), is one of the most important "swing states" in any election and, just for the heck of it, produced last year's National Champion college football team.
Oh yeah, and it also was on the winning side in the Civil War and produced a couple of the generals probably most responsible for that, including U. S. Grant. Great general, lousy President. Oh well, you can't win them all.
So, I find it facinating that my home state doesn't deserve to exist, but I don't think I'll appologize for it.
Now, I didn't catch where you're from...