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The Buckeye is an American breed of chicken. It was created in Ohio in the late nineteenth century by Nettie Metcalf. The color of its plumage was intended to resemble the color of the seeds of Aesculus glabra, the Ohio Buckeye plant for which the state is called the 'Buckeye State'. It is a dual-purpose chicken, kept for both meat and eggs.
Aesculus glabra, commonly known as Ohio buckeye, [2] Texas buckeye, [3] fetid buckeye, [3] and horse chestnut [3] is a species of tree in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) native to North America. Its natural range is primarily in the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the geological Black ...
Early pioneers in the Ohio Valley were already known as buckeyes when Dr. Daniel Drake, a physician and historian in Cincinnati, presented a speech on Dec. 26, 1833, extolling the virtues of the ...
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In northern Ohio, a ground-dweller by the name of Buckeye Chuck has made his call: Spring is coming. Ohio's weather-predicting groundhog issued a proclamation Sunday morning, declaring that an ...
The North Central Conference was an OHSAA athletic league whose final remaining members were located in northwest and north-central Ohio. The league's last day of operation was June 30, 2014. The following schools were members at the time the league folded: League membership 2011-2013
(Barry Gibb, 78, is the only surviving family member; Maurice Gibb died in 2003 at 53 and Robin died in 2012 at 62. Younger brother Andy Gibb, a teen idol and solo artist, died in 1988 at age 30.)
Barbara Precht was originally from the wealthy Hess family of Cincinnati, Ohio; her father was the head of the local bar association and her uncle was a judge. [5] She married her husband, school supervisor James Precht, and had two daughters while living in Indian Hill, Ohio.