Your Guide to Visiting Ohio's Regions

Ohio's Major Regions

We have divided the state into 5 geographic regions to help organize featured attractions to those particular areas. Each region has its own unique features and attractions.

Ohio also has several magnificent natural playgrounds: North Coast of Lake Erie and the Hocking Hills. Another unique cultural area is Ohio's Amish Country, where visitors can see a distinctly different way of life and plenty of unique shopping opportunities.

Visiting Ohio's Capitol Building

When it was first built, the Ohio Statehouse was the largest capitol building in the country. Couples on their honeymoon would come to the statehouse and make the steep climb to the cupola and sign their names on the windowed walls. When the building first opened there were just 55 rooms, but over time that number grew to over 700 different offices. In the 1990s a massive restoration of the Capitol was undertaken to restore the Capitol to its original splendor. The Ohio Statehouse is open everyday for visitors to see this quality Greek Revival building, and on special occasions, you can actually take a tour of the statehouse and see the cornerstone and climb those steps up to the cupola and see all those signatures from years past. Every year, more than 400,000 visitors come to the Ohio Statehouse.

Pursuing Ohio Trivia

Like any place you might visit, Ohio has it's share of trivia and uniquely odd-ball stuff. Find out more about the Buckeye State and why we are actually called the Buckeye State.

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Touring through Ohio's History

Ohio History

OHIO HISTORY is the history of a young country struggling to adapt to its new independence. Although Ohio became a state in 1803, its history goes back over 2000 years ago, when the great Adena and Hopewell Cultures had massive cities throughout the Ohio Country. Although these ancient people were long gone before the first Native Americans migrated into Ohio's beautiful land, their culture can still be found in many locations throughout the state. You can read and see more about Ohio's Ancient Cultures, see their preserved artifacts and many of the remaining earthworks and burial mounds.

Ohio became a great state because it embraced new technology as it became viable. First were the great canals that connected Ohio with the rest of the nation and the world. As innovations such as the railroad, Ohio developed one of the most extensive railroad systems in the country. While many of those transport modes have been surpassed, their position in our history can not be ignored. Today there are numerous locations throughout the state where these pioneering transport systems still exist.

Civil War Re-enactors at the Ohio StatehouseCivil War in Ohio

The great conflict between the states was strongly felt in Ohio. See how the Underground Railroad played an important role in freeing the country from slavery and how Ohio played a major role in the Civil War. Over 300,000 Ohioans served in the war, the third largest contributor to the conflict of all the northern states.

The human cost of the war in Ohio would total more than 35,000 Ohio lives lost. One of every 10 Ohioans serving in the war, never returned home.

Ohio's Presidents

More men served in the office of Present of the United States that were from Ohio than any other state. Seven of those men were born in Ohio. The eighth was born before there were any states. See where these 8 Ohioans were born, where they lived and how they served our country throughout their lives. A number of these men have memorials in Ohio, including their homes and Presidential Libraries.

Ohio's Native Americans

Before the European settlers moved into the Ohio Country, the land was populated with many different Native Americans. Each of these nations had there own customs and beliefs. When these cultures collided, the results were often catastrophic. A number of major battles were fought in Ohio.

Visiting Columbus: The Neighborhood City

Columbus

Columbus is the 15th largest city in the United States, easily accessible from anywhere in the country. With a population over 730,000, Columbus has an extremely diverse culture representing 134 nations speaking 105 languages. But whatever language you speak, you'll have a good time in Columbus.

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Columbus is a city of neighborhoods

Once called the All-American City, Columbus is made up of many neighborhoods that together make up the largest city in Ohio. Columbus has always been the proverbial melting pot of diverse cultures.

Touring OhioWelcome to the Heart of America: Ohio

There's a phrase Ohioans display on their license plates: "Ohio: the heart of it all". I never liked that phrase too much because it didn't really say anything. The phrasing was cute, but I never knew what "it" was.

I thought a better slogan should be: "Ohio: the Heart of America!" Now that says something!

Ohio really is the heart of America, even the shape of the state looks like a heart. Ok, that might be stretching things, but Ohio is central in relation to the rest of the country. We are the cross-roads of the nation. And, at the heart of Ohio is the state capital: Columbus— the epitome of a cross-roads town.

Ohio was once known world-wide for its innovators and industry. With the world economy today, many of those industrial giants are moving away, but the innovators and workers are still going strong. Columbus was recently selected as the top city in the country for technology development.

With a solid work ethic and strong family values based on its rich religious heritage, Ohio is a great place to put down roots, or to just take some vacation time digging into our nation's history and the rural heritage that made America great. In Ohio, you can still feel the heartbeat of the American Spirit.

About Touring-Ohio.com

We try to cover as many interesting locations in Ohio as possible and are always adding new information about the specific locations throughout the state. Most of the articles that we have are based on first hand experience where possible. Most of the the photographs we use are ones that we've taken, except for the historical images. We realized from the outset that creating Touring-Ohio.com would be an on-going process and that we would not be able to cover every locale all at once. We also realize that we don't know everything about Ohio and we hope those that do know specific stories about their areas, might want to share that information. If you live in Ohio and would like to share your special location, contact us and we'll definitely put it on our annual to-do-list of places to cover. We appreciate the input we receive regularly about the articles as well as the correcting any misinformation we may have given.

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