Ohio

• Ohio’s state flag is not a rectangle like other flags—it’s a pennant design, and it’s the only state flag in the United States with that design.

•  The first concrete street in America, which is still in use today, was poured in 1891 near the Logan County Courthouse in Bellefontaine.

• The Lake Erie Monster, aka “Bessie,” is a serpent-type monster that lives in Lake Erie, or at least it’s been sighted a lot over the last 100 years.

• Ohio has one of the largest Amish populations in the U.S. There are over 80,000 members of the old-order Amish in Ohio.

• More U.S. Presidents were born in Ohio than any other state.


• It is legal to throw a snake at someone but it is illegal to shake a snake at someone.

• No one may be arrested on Sunday or on the Fourth of July.

• It's against the law to kill a housefly within 160 feet of a church without a license.

• Bay Village - It is illegal to walk a cow down Lake Road.

• Cleveland - It's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license!

• Clinton County - Any person who leans against a public building will be subject to fines.

• Chillicothe - It is illegal to throw rice at weddings.

• Columbus - It is illegal for stores to sell corn flakes on Sunday.

• McDonald - Your goose may not paraded down Main Street.

• Fairview Park - It's against the law to honk your horn "excessively". A grandmother was fined for honking her horn twice at her neighbor.


• Creek Valley in Adams County - The Great Serpent Mound, the largest serpent effigy in the world at a half mile long.

• Ohio holds the record for the world’s largest basket, the Longaberger Company headquarters building in Newark. It’s seven stories high and 180,000 square feet.

• Cleveland Heights - The Haserot Angel - The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

• Cleveland - Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick - A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

• McArthur - Moonville Tunnel - The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.