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Part of its anniversary celebration, the Purple People Bridge will host a Backroads Wine Festival on Thursday. Here's a look at the bridge's history. The Purple People Bridge is 150 years old.
Parties in the former bellwether state take lessons from 2023 abortion, marijuana votes. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For more than half a century, Ohio was one of the most important states to watch ...
April 1, 1872. (extensively rebuilt from 1996-1897. Location. Purple-clad people crossing the Newport Southbank Bridge. Stereoscopic image of the bridge before its 1897 reconstruction. The Purple People Bridge is a pedestrian-only bridge that stretches 2,670 feet over the Ohio River, connecting Newport, Kentucky to downtown Cincinnati, Ohio .
The Purple People Bridge will partially reopen Friday, just shy of a week after closing because of falling debris.. People on foot and bikes can enter the bridge, closed to vehicles since 2001 ...
Ohio voters responded last year to the 2022 ruling by overwhelmingly approving an amendment enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution. They did so after swarming polls to defeat a Republican effort that would have made doing so more difficult. The state also legalized recreational marijuana.
The City of Ohio became an independent municipality on March 3, 1836, splitting from Brooklyn Township. The city grew from a population of 2,400 people in the early 1830s to over 4,000 in 1850. The municipality was annexed by Cleveland on June 5, 1854. James A. Garfield, who became the 20th president of the United States, frequently preached at ...
Tyrian purple is a pigment made from the mucus of several species of Murex snail. Production of Tyrian purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BC by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 AD, with the fall of Constantinople.
Columbus, the home of Ohio State University, is the largest city in the state in terms of population. State figures show Columbus has about 908,000 residents, well eclipsing Cleveland (362,000 ...