The 17th state admitted to the US was Ohio when President Thomas Jefferson endorsed the US Congress' decision to grant statehood on February 19, 1803. On March 1st, 1803 the state legislature met for the first time. However, due to an oversight, it was not official until August 7th, 1953. Come to find out that congress never formally voted on it back in 1803, so it never really happened. Eight presidents came from Ohio; Harrison, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, and Harding. Ohio is known to be the birthplace of aviation. Two Ohioans, Orville and Wilbur Wright, invented the first airplane. Also, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was born in Cleveland, Ohio when a radio disc jockey Alan Freed coined the term "rock and roll" and heavily promoted the new genre in early 1950. The Ohio state tree is the Buckeye. The state flower is the Carnation. The state bird is the Cardinal.
Ohio is an Iroquois word that means "great river". In 1650, the Iroquois people began settling in the region. Ohio was known as the original "Indian territory" in the 1790's. Fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, ancestors of Native Americans crossed into North America from northeastern Asia. They created monumental earthen architecture homes and structures, and they manifested a network of trade that brought raw minerals, like shells from the Gulf of Mexico, copper from Lake Superior, and volcanic glass from Yellowstone Park, into southern Ohio. They lived in small communities dispersed over the state, and domesticated many local plants for food. European colonists used the excuse that the indigenous couldn't have built the structures they were living in, excusing their invasion as "saving" a lost civilization in order to reclaim it for themselves. They started a "Mound Builder" myth stating that the Indigenous stole the structures from a previous group of people, which was used to excuse their horrific behavior toward indigenous people.
In 1788, 48 members of an expedition that was sponsored by the Ohio Company purchased more than one and a half million acres of Northwest Territory from Congress. This land would eventually become the city of Marietta on the Ohio River. In 1795, the Treaty of Greenville allowed them to settle the eastern and southern parts of the territory. Three years later, there was a population of 5,000 settlers who elected a house of representatives. In 1799, they met in Cincinnati to elect a speaker. Finally, in 1803, it was admitted into the Union. Due to dishonest "Indian Treaties", Ohio was settled and the indigenous were driven out or killed. Natives were forced to sign them or threatened death. Many Indigenous remained in Ohio after this horrific "removal". They were declared to no longer be Native Indians by the government. Due to record-falsification on identities, half of all living Indigenous Americans in the US do not have identity cards issued by the government. The Ohio story states that there are "No Indians in Ohio", but that is simply untrue. In July of 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that half of Oklahoma is considered Native American land.