COSHOCTON COUNTY
Better Known Facts
- Home of the 911
National
Emergency Number Association (NENA)
- Home of the Monticello III canal boat, a restored one and one quarter-mile,
horse drawn canal route
- Home of the Woodbury Wildlife
Area, the largest public hunting and fishing area in Ohio
- Home of Ansell Edmont, the
world's largest producer of synthetic industrial gloves
- Home of Pretty Products, the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of
automotive floor mats
- Home of the North Appalachian Experimental Watershed and the Pomerene
Forest Laboratory, both are divisions of the Ohio Agricultural Research and
Development Center (OARDC)
- Home of Roscoe Village, a
restored 1830's Ohio and Erie Canal town named one of the nation's top 20
historic restorations
- Home of the
Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, housing collections of Americana, American
Indian and Eskimo artifacts and decorative arts
- Home of the Pomerene Fine Arts Center, committed to encouraging community
involvement in the arts, housed in an elegant 1836 Greek Revival home
- Home of Wills Creek, one of
fourteen water reservoirs in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District
(excellent hunting and fishing)
Lesser Known Facts
- Home of the Super 8 Motel's Manager of the Year,
Linda Eaton
- Home of the 1998-99 National FFA Officer Emily Buxton
Eastern Region Vice-President.
- Home of the 1996 White House Christmas Tree by Joan
and Kenneth Scheetz
- Home of the 1996 International Auctioneering Champion and World Team
Champion, Greg Rice
- Home of the nation's first chapter of the March of Dimes
- Home of the highest sheep producing county in Ohio
- Home of the southern most pair of mating American Bald Eagle in Ohio
- Home of the Co-Founder of the AFL, the forerunner of the
AFL/CIO,
William Greene (1870-1952)
- Home of CNN News Correspondent, Gordan Graham
- Home of the Newspaper Publisher of the Coshocton Why and Chicago Tribune,
Joseph Medill (1823-1899)
- Home of the former San Francisco Giant Catcher and current FOX TV
Sportscaster, Bob Brenly
- Home of the Contemporary Black Artist and Winner of the 1998 Coshoctonian
Award, "Vesta" Williams
- Home of Senior Tour Golf Player Mike McCollough
- Home of the "Human Fly" Mad Marshall Jacobs
- Home of the Pope Gosser China Company (now defunct)
- Birthplace of the Specialty Advertising Industry
- Birthplace of the (either former or current CEO) of the Royal Vacuum Corp
- There are 37 named villages in
Coshocton County
- Home of the oldest building in Ohio built by whites. The Old Stone Fort in
Oxford Township
- Home of the smallest church in Ohio (possibly world), Royer's Chapel in
Franklin Township, built 1897-8, has seven hand-hewed pews, found off Rt. 83
near Wills Creek turnoff
- Home of the Surgeon that pioneered nerve block anesthesia and blood
transfusions and founded Cleveland Clinic George Crile
(1864-1943)
- Home of the Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
President of DePauw University,
Rev. F. J. McConnell (1871-1953)
- Home of numerous Minor League Baseball Teams (during the early part of this
century) location what is now known as the Red Sea Area
- Birthplace of the "Coshocton
Wheel" a device now used worldwide for standardized water flow measurements,
invented by Walter Pomerene
OHIO
Better Known Facts
- Home of eight U.S. Presidents
- Home of the first person to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong from
Wapakoneta
- Home of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings
- Home of the first rubber tire, manufactured by B.F. Goodrich in Akron
- Home of the first rubber street. Exchange Street in Akron
- Home of the first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller from Cleveland
- Home of the nation's largest
Amish population
- Home of more astronauts (23) than any other state
- Home of the
first American to orbit the earth and in October 1998 became the oldest
person to orbit the earth, John Glenn from New Concord
- Home of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) who crossed the state of Ohio
planting Apple seeds in the early 1800's
Lesser Known Facts
- Home of the world's first
parachute jump in 1922
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton
- Home of the world's longest bar
- Home of the world's walleye
fishing capital, over 35,000,000
- Home of the
world's first disposable
diaper
- Home of the
world's oldest
traffic light at Ashville
- Home of the world's largest crystal ball at the Ross C. Purdy Museum of
Ceramics in Westerville
- Home of the world's largest rubber stamp at Cleveland
- Home of the world's largest basket at Dresden
- Home of the world's largest vase, made in Zanesville, Ohio by the S.A.
Weller Pottery Company
- Home of the nation's only town to have their main street dead end at both
ends at Alliance
- Home of the nation's first outdoor telephone booth
- Home of the nation's first electric traffic light
- Home of the
nation's
first concrete street at Bellefontaine
- Home of the nation's first plastic credit card
- Home of the nation's first full-fledged trade office in Africa
- Home of the nation's largest number of agricultural fairs and zoological
parks
- Home of the nation's largest system of hand-operated river navigation locks
- Home of the nation's first college offering a bachelor's degree in
hazardous waste management
- Home of the nation's only assembly line producing right-hand and left-hand
drive cars
- Home of more astronauts (23) than any other state
- Home of the NFL'S smallest franchise, the Orrang Indians at Larue, Ohio in
the 1920's
- Home of the 1996 White House Turkey
- Home of the banana split at Wilmington around the turn of the century
- Home of the first Northwest Territory settlement at Marietta
- Home of Ohio's only Civil War Battlefield site is Buffington Island in
Meigs County
- The State Flag of Ohio is the only one that is not rectangular -- it is
pennant shaped
- Highest point in Ohio is Campbell Hill in Logan County at 1,550 feet above
sea level
- Geographic center of Ohio is Centerburg, located NE of Columbus
- There are no cross streets in Pomeroy. The city is about a block across
and a mile long.
- Longest road in Ohio is State Route 3 - 255.60 miles
- Ohio has 113,435 miles of state highway and 42,927 highway bridges
- Birthplace of the match, invented by Mr. Ohio Columbus Barber (Oh the jokes
they must've made . . . <g>)
- Home of the world's largest cuckoo clock at the Alpine Alpa near
Sugarcreek, in the heart of Ohio's Amish Country
- Home of the world's longest hospital stay by Martha Nelson after staying 99
years in the Columbus State Institute for the Feeble-Minded
- Home of the nation's only metal whistle factory. The
American Whistle Factory located in
Columbus 614-846-2918
- Ohio is the only state in the nation that does not have any official state
holidays in addition to the 13 standard federal holidays
- Ohio’s largest natural bridge is a 100-foot span of sandstone found in
Rockbridge.
