Interesting Facts about Ohio

• A part of one of the lead claim plates buried by Bienville in 1749 was found by small boys, and the historic relic went to a Massachusetts museum.
• If Connecticut claims in Ohio had not been settled, the present-day Ohio city might have been known as Cleveland, Connecticut.
• The design for the great seal of Ohio was inspired by the rising of the sun over the Ohio mountains after an all-night meeting of early Ohio officials.
• Technically, Ohio did not legally become a state until 1953 because Congress had up to then neglected to give its formal approval.
• Harry M. Stevens of Niles saw a cartoon of a dachshund dog as a wiener. He called his sandwich invention a "hot dog."
• The first cash register was named a "mechanical money drawer" by its inventor, James Ritty.