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Flint is an unincorporated community in Sharon Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States, located north of downtown Columbus near the intersection of Flint and Park Roads. [2] It was served by stations on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad ( New York Central system) and Sandusky and Columbus Short Line Railway ( Pennsylvania ...
Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is a Native American flint quarry located in Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Brownsville at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Flint Ridge Road. Old quarry pits are visible, and a museum is located on the site.
Flint sometimes occurs in large flint fields in Jurassic or Cretaceous beds, for example, in Europe. Puzzling giant flint formations known as paramoudra and flint circles are found around Europe but especially in Norfolk, England, on the beaches at Beeston Bump and West Runton. [6] The "Ohio flint" is the official gemstone of Ohio state.
Upper Mercer flint or Upper Mercer chert is a type of flint, or a pure form of chert, found in Coshocton, Hocking, and Perry counties of Ohio. Made of forms of silica and quartz , the hard and brittle stone was used by prehistoric people to make tools and weapons.
Upper Mercer flint, Nellie West Outcrop, Coshocton County, Ohio. The site is located on the eastern boundary of the town of Nellie in the Walhonding River Valley. It is at the edge of the Allegheny Plateau, which was never covered by ice during the last ice age. [3]
Diamond Flint Glass Company Hartford City 1899 1905 90 Bottle maker employed 90 in 1901. [22] Factory was destroyed by fire in 1905. [23] Moved to Jackson, Ohio. [24] 6: Fulton Glass Company Hartford City 1929 1986 Founded in 1929 by ex-Johnston Glass plant manager George T. Fulton. [13] Hartford City plant destroyed by fire in 1966. [25]
Spearheads were found by a local artifact collector in Sharon Center, Ohio.From 1990 to 1993, the site was excavated by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.Dr. David Brose, the former Curator of Archaeology, found the spearheads were in the style of Clovis points of the Paleo-Indians and "some of the oldest certain examples of human activity in the New World."
On Ohio's 2013 license plate design, "Birthplace of Aviation" is given prominent placement among 45 other slogans and factoids. [4] [5]The current official marketing slogan (as of 2008) is: Ohio—Birthplace of Aviation, in reference to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventing duo from Dayton who are credited with building the first successful airplane. [6]