Ohio

The design of the State Seal of Ohio has the Scioto River flows across the center of the seal, separating cultivated fields from Mount Logan. Thirteen rays of a rising sun radiate over the mountain, symbolizing the 13 original colonies. In the foreground stands a sheaf of wheat, representing agriculture and bounty. Mimicking the sheaf of wheat is a bundle of 17 arrows, symbolizing Ohio as the 17th state to join the Union.

Notice the cupola on top of the building, the new Capitol was style in the Greek Revival mode, a style that recalled the birthplace of democracy. The columns are of a Doric style that seems to float over the porch and shields the observers’ eye from the base of the lying behind it.

The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1839, however economic factors caused by the bank panic of 1837 set the project back many years, it was completed in 1861.

The state takes its name from the Ohio River, which in turn traces its name to an Iroquoian work meaning “great water”.

On April 29, 1865 at the center of this rotunda, President Lincoln lay in state in the Ohio Statehouse Rotunda for six and a half hours on the journey to his final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.

Abraham Lincoln appointed the best and brightest military and political leaders from the state of Ohio who contributed greatly to the Union cause during the Civil War; including Generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James A. Garfield and Phillip Sheridan as well as Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

Senate Chambers

Donna standing at the stairs at the rear of the capitol building, dedicated to the men serving in the military

The Huntington Center is an office and retail use building standing 37 stories tall and was completed in 1984

Supreme Court Building along the Scioto River

Hall of the Supreme Court, it was so beautiful and ornate but tastefully done

Supreme Court Justices, four men and three women

Supreme Court hearing room

Supreme Court reading room

Donna in the Supreme Court reading and law library room, the room features seven murals by Missouri artist Leroy MacMorris (1893-1982) depicting the history of the printed book

Supreme Court of Ohio law library was established and is maintained for the use of the Justices and staff of the Supreme Court

This is the view from the 13^th floor of the Supreme Court Building looking north up the Scioto River towards downtown Columbus

West View from the 13^th floor of the Supreme Court Building looking over the Scioto River towards the COSI Museum.

View of downtown Columbus and the Leveque Tower

Our campsite in Thompson, Ohio, it had lots of room and park like

This is the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. If you like music, you can spend a whole day there listening to whatever you like. Bruce Springsteen’s display opened during our visit, we didn’t go in as we had been there several years ago.

Cleveland streets then

Cleveland streets now

Drawbridge at Ashtabula

Coal industry going strong in Ashtabula, this is near the marina and Lake Erie

What a great house, it probably was one of the most beautiful ones on the street

Marina looking out towards Lake Erie

Our motorhome would not fit through this one

Ever since I saw the movie “Bridges of Madison County" with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, I love seeing and photographing them. Donna and I have been to that bridge in Madison County several years ago.

The Smolen-Gulf Bridge is a covered bridge in Ashtabula County; it is the longest covered bridge in the United States at 613 feet long

In Middlefield, Ohio, a quiet town, Mary Yoder’s Amish Kitchen is the place to eat

They brought us chicken, delicious beef, lean ham, mashed potatoes, lots of gravy, slaw, corn, and homemade bread, with your pick of homemade peanut butter or apple butter. And that wasn’t all; we have our pick of several desserts such as Amish date nut pudding or apple pie ala mode. And we must not forget the aromatic O’Neill’s coffee.

This is my donut shop; chocolate on chocolate cake. You yell out “double chocolate”
please

America, a beautiful place to see and live.