Let’s learn about the 50 States: one at a time – Ohio

Ohio became the Seventeenth State on March 1, 1803. 

It was given the nickname of the Buckeye State.

Ohio’s state motto is “With God, All Things Are Possible”.

State Flower is: The Scarlet Carnation

Ohio’s state bird is The Northern Cardinal

Ohio has more than 200 waterfalls.

Ohio is home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Orville and Wilbur Wright were from Dayton, Ohio and had bicycle business repairing, building, selling and renting bikes before they invented the first successful airplane and made a successful flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Ohio is famous home to 24 astronauts; with John Glenn who was the first American to orbit the Earth and Neil Armstrong who was the first man to walk on the moon.