Magnolia Blossoms by Patience Fort: Vacation in Ohio

Friday, May 25, 2018

Vacation in Ohio

Friday, May 25, 2018

In researching things to do in Ohio, I ran across some interesting facts.
Ohio is known as the Buckeye state because of the trees that grow there. Its people are also known as Buckeyes.
Ohio is famous for several things:

Sports: NCAA football, pro football, major league baseball, pro hockey, pro soccer.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is in Canton, Ohio.
Amusement Parks: Cedar Point and Kings Island
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland.
Aeronautics: Orville and Wilbur Wright are from Ohio.
21 NASA astronauts were born in Ohio including Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and John Glenn.
Politics: No Republican President has ever been elected without winning Ohio.
Eight Presidents hale from Ohio.
In 1969 the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught on fire because it was so full of pollution and debris. This led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (Dec 1970) and The Clean Water Act of 1972.

But did you know that Ohio is home to more than 70 Native American "mounds?" The mound builders inhabited the region for several hundred years dating back to perhaps 300 years BC and they built the mounds for burial, storage, and religious purposes. Some are conical. Some are dome-shaped. Some are linear. Some are circular. And some were built to resemble some sort of animal -- like the Serpent Mound in Peebles, OH.

While I am not interested in listing all 70 mounds here, I would suggest that a trip to investigate these wonders might be really cool. Most of Ohio's mounds are in the central and southern part of the state -- fairly accessible to my Kentucky friends.

Let me know if you go check them out.