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Bow Wow, Alan Jackson, Uncle Kracker, Terri Clark, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Diamond Rio performed. 2020 - In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced on May 21 that the 2020 Ohio State Fair was canceled. [22] 2021 – The fair returned after last year's hiatus, but limited to livestock & educational contests. The general ...
Camp Chase was an American Civil War training and prison camp established in May 1861, on land leased by the U.S. Government. [ 4 ] It replaced the much smaller Camp Jackson which was established by Ohio Governor William Dennison Jr as a place for Ohio's union volunteers to meet. [ 4 ] It originally operated from a city park.
These camps often held German and Italian detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [ 1] Fort McDowell/Angel Island, California. Camp Blanding, Florida. Camp Forrest, Tennessee. Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Camp Lordsburg, New Mexico. Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Florence, Arizona. Fort Bliss, New Mexico and Texas.
The following is a list of lakes in Ohio. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , there are approximately 50,000 lakes and small ponds, with a total surface area of 200,000 acres, and among these there are 2,200 lakes of 5 acres (2.0 ha) or greater with a total surface area of 134,000 acres. [ 1 ]
Johnson's Island. / 41.4963; -82.7346 ( Johnson Island Civil War Prison and Fort Site) Johnson's Island is a 300-acre (120 ha) island in Sandusky Bay, located on the coast of Lake Erie, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city of Sandusky, Ohio. It was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate officers captured during the American Civil War.
March 07, 1973. Camp Dennison was a military recruiting, training, and medical post for the United States Army during the American Civil War. It was located near Cincinnati, Ohio, not far from the Ohio River. The camp was named for Cincinnati native William Dennison, Ohio's governor at the start of the war. With the outbreak of the Civil War in ...
The Fort Ancient culture is a Native American archaeological culture that dates back to c. 1000–1750 CE. [ 1] Members of the culture lived along the Ohio River valley, in an area running from modern-day Ohio and western West Virginia through to northern Kentucky and parts of southeastern Indiana. [ 2]
Beaumont Scout Reservation (Ohio) is a full-service Scout Reservation with forests, fields, wetlands and lakes, sitting on 1,260 acres (510 ha) along the Grand River in Rock Creek, Ohio, approximately 40 miles east from downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It began operating as a camp in 1946 and has grown into a year-round facility with camping for ...