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Champion City (refers to the Champion reaper that was once produced in the city) [66] City at the End of the Road [67] Home City [66] [67] Rose City or City of Roses [66] [67] Steubenville – The City of Murals [68] Strongsville – Crossroads of the Nation [69] Sugarcreek – The Little Switzerland of Ohio [70]
Huron, Ohio: The name itself isn't so unusual, but the city is on the beach of Lake Erie in Erie County in Ohio, making it unusually confusing. Hurricane: A small community in Herkimer County, New York, that could have been "well-drenched" by the 2011 tropical cyclone named Irene. There is also a Hurricane, West Virginia (pronounced "HER-ick-in ...
A number of stories exist to explain the community's unusual name. [1] One claims that a tremendous brawl broke out when the community was in its infancy. More humorous is the tale of a woman who confronted her preacher during a Sunday morning worship service, informing the clergyman that her husband was cheating on her. She wanted the preacher ...
It’s easy to overlook strange place names once you get used to them, but as an Italian, I’m shocked that people in the U.S. actually live in cities and towns with names like these.
McCann tells me the city is looking forward to completion of a Native American tribute at a local riverside park. For music lovers, there's also a punk rock band with the name "Defiance, Ohio ...
Capernaum (Hancock County) - small town named after biblical city in Amanda Township; Cass (Hancock County) - small town in Cass Township; Claylick, Licking County Located at the intersection of Claylick and the Licking River, this was one of the largest towns to be destroyed and caused primarily by 2 floods 1 in 1919 and 1 in 1959. After the ...
March 1, 2024, marks Ohio's 221st birthday. That's right: the Buckeye State was officially granted statehood on March 1, 1803 — 27 years after the United States declared independence from ...
There are currently 253 cities and 673 villages in Ohio, for a total of 926 municipalities. Municipality names are not unique: there is a village of Centerville in Gallia County and a city of Centerville in Montgomery County ; there is also a city of Oakwood in Montgomery County as well as the villages of Oakwood in Cuyahoga County and Oakwood ...