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On the issue of what region Ohio is in there are no hard-and-fast definitions of regions in the United States. Usually, Ohio is considered Midwestern, but there are plenty of people who believe Ohio is too far east to be in the Midwest. It's not incorrect to say that Ohio is in the northeast, well, because look at the map. And for some purposes Ohio has more in common with Pennsylvania than with Iowa. I'm not going to change this, but I just wanted to note that there is no definitive regional definition here.
Action Allie Acsenray/Acsenray 15:00, 19 Aug 2004 :I agree about the frailty of regional definitions. From my perspective, having spent the first 25 years living in OhioI always thought of the midwest as consisting of the states that were formed out of the
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Pixies Pillows Great Plains states. I may be wrong, but I think it is a relatively recent U.S. census-driven thing to refer to the entire area as the midwest. While there may be affinities between Ohio and the northeast, from a traditional persepective, it just sound very odd to say that Ohio is part of the northeast U.S. Many of the said affinities are likely due to the fact that many of the early settlers (at least in northeast Ohio (now there's an ironic coincidence) were from the northeastern states. But the same could be said of Michigan and Wisconsinthe Town system in Wisconsin is quite similar to that of New York. 15:43, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Politics What about Ohio's status as a swing-state on the national stage, or the internal political tendencies of the state?
Added Bellefontaine... ...to list of important cities and towns. While Bellefontaine is certainly not among Ohio's largest cities, it is important in that the city played a role in many of Ohio's historical periods. From its founding as the Shawnee community of
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Honeys Buns John Chapman, David Jones, and the Zane family, Bellefontaine was an important site at the founding of Ohio. Bellefontaine's importance continued through the railroading era; it was the site of one of the largest railroad terminals in the Eastern United States. As Ohio and America took to the automobile, Bellefontaine was there: The process for paving streets with concrete was perfected at Bellefontaine. And now, Bellefontaine is at the center of Honda of America Manufacturing's extensive Ohio operations.
LG ringtones SwissCelt/SwissCelt 21:52, 12 Sep 2004 :Not to mention being the home of the highest point in the state of Ohio! That's significant! *ahem* Actually, I'm very fond of Bellefontaine, and I don't intend to protest its inclusion, though perhaps we should get someone who isn't from Ohio to comment.
Go Go Gidget Aranel/Cingular Ringtones User:Aranel/Aranel ("have imaginary User:Aranel/Sarah/Sarah") 22:04, 12 Sep 2004 Date of statehoodThe article currently state that Ohio was admitted to the Union on "
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I don't think this is quite accurate. First, Ohio was accepted as a State of the Union by the act of February 19, 1903 [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002/llsl002.db&recNum=238]. The act stated that Ohio had fulfilled the process set out in the enabling act of April 30, 1802, "whereby the said state has become one of the United States of America". Unlike Lousiana and subsequent states, no effective date was declared for this change of status and the language was not as explicit as for subsequent states. Yet there is no question that Ohio had fulfilled all the requirements set out by Congress and was legally recognized as a state on February 19, 1803.
The lack of an explicit declaration of a date of statehood only became an issue as the 150th anniversary approached in 1953. The issue was more a matter of PR and self-promotion than a matter of law, but Congress and Eisenhower played along with the Ohio congressman, George Bender, who introduced the legislation that retroactively recognized Ohio's official date of admittance to the Union. http://www.archives.gov/records_of_congress/features/print_friendly.html?page=ohio_statehood_anniversary_content.html&title=NARA%20%7C%20Records%20of%20Congress%20%7C%20Featured%20Document] [http://www.ohio200.org/info/history.asp][http://www.house.gov/hobson/ohioact1953.jpg]
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Bkonrad/older'''≠'''User talk:Bkonrad/wiser 18:49, Oct 7, 2004 I don't have the citation handy, but the courts were forced to consider the issue of when exactly Ohio became a state. The issue came up for because as to when officers of the territory ceased to hold their offices and be entitled to pay, expense accounts, etc. The courts determined the date as March 1, 1803 because that was the date the Constitution entered into force and the General Assembly first sat. The first governor was sworn in either on the second or the third. This judicial determination was made circa 1807.
PedanticallySpeaking/PedanticallySpeaking 14:36, Oct 23, 2004 Plaque on Wall Street The photo of the plaque outside Federal Hall doesn't commemorate the Northwest Ordinance but rather the Ohio Company of Associates of Israel Ludlow et alia that bought a large chunk of southeastern Ohio around Marietta. (I corresponded with the New-York Historical Society on this issue a couple of years ago after I saw a photo of Federal Hall with the unmistakable outline of Ohio visible.)
PedanticallySpeaking/PedanticallySpeaking 14:38, Oct 23, 2004 :The title is definitely about the Ohio Company, as you say, but the caption also describes the Northwest Ordinance and the Northwest Territory.
Decumanus/Decumanus 17:57, 2004 Oct 23 Ohio school districtsI posted an item for discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. special districts#Ohio school districts on what to name articles on our school districts. I'd appreciate Wikipedians looking at my query and posting comments there.
PedanticallySpeaking/PedanticallySpeaking 18:38, Jan 3, 2005