Let's play an Ohio trivia game (Cleveland, Toledo: radio, cemetery, locations)

[htlong]

floods hit akron and wiped out the reservoirs damns known as portage lakes in 1913 they supplied the ohio canal with water to operate the locks , i think that was the end of the canal. not sure though

[rrtechno]

What town in Ohio has been recognized 3 times in the last 5 years as having the Best Tasting Munincipal Drinking Water in the World?

[South Range Family]

Montpelier is the winner again this year.
Here's the link. http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0228BestWater28-ON.html (broken link)

[still looking 62]

It is Floods.
The floods were the worst in Ohio history, killing almost 350 people and damaging estimating over 100 million in property. The Conversancy Act allowed flood-control districts to be established creating many flood control reserviors and dams.

[htlong]

thus we have tappan,beach city and heck or should i say damn, i cant think of the many great man made reservoirs were made from this act that give us boating,swimming,and fishing areas

who can name them all?

[Pugh]

[quote=South Range Family;193338]Yes, Pretty Boy Floyd was killed by the East Liverpool police. It was actually a little farther north in St. Claire Township Columbiana County near Calcutta. I don't remember if it was on Sprucevale Rd. or route 170, but it was on top of the hill above Beaver Creek State Park. The historical marker is still there.

I am a little confused about this. My father was on the Wellsville Ohio police force when Pretty Boy Floyd was killed. Adam Richetti, Pretty Boy's driver, was captured the night before sleeping in a car outside of Wellsville and held at that city's lockup. The force was afraid that Floyd would spring him so set up sandbags on rooftops with armed men waiting. I do in fact have a picture of Richetti posing with Fultz outside of his jail cell in Wellsville.

Chief John Fultz of the Wellsville force was also on the posse looking for Floyd and almost got him in a cabin in the woods outside of Wellsville. The story related to me was that Floyd was shot in Lisbon Ohio. His body was laid out in East Liverpool where thousands viewed the body. I believe that Floyd himself was shot running through a corn field by a man with a deer rifle.

[South Range Family]

This is what the historical marker says.


Text : Side A
In these fields, formerly the site of the Ellen Conkle farm, notorious Depression-Era desperado Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd met his death at the hands of federal agents and members of the East Liverpool Police Department on October 22, 1934. Floyd's criminal career as a bank robber, who reputedly committed a dozen murders, mostly police officers, caused him to be designated "Public Enemy #1" only three months earlier by J. Edgar Hoover.


Text : Side B
Believed to be returning to his home in the Cookson Hills of Oklahoma after a year of hiding, Floyd and his partner, Adam Richetti, had attracted the attention of local police near Wellsville, Ohio. A shoot-out ensued, resulting in Richetti's capture and Floyd's escape. Agent Melvin Purvis supervised the three-day manhunt, which ended here when eight lawmen ended Floyd's life of violence. "Pretty Boy's" body was placed on public display in East Liverpool before being returned to Oklahoma for burial.


County
Columbiana


Directions
Sprucevale Rd. 2 miles south of Clarkson


Latitude / Longitude
40.42847 ° / -80.35305 °


Category(s)
Law (LAW)


Keyword(s)
Crimes


Sponsor(s)
East Liverpool Historical Society and The Ohio Historical Society

It came from this website. http://www.remarkableohio.org/index....&marker_id=286


This is the google page with many more websites. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...d.&btnG=Search

[htlong]

Originally Posted by htlong

thus we have tappan,beach city and heck or should i say damn, i cant think of the many great man made reservoirs were made from this act that give us boating,swimming,and fishing areas

who can name them all?

The 14 MWCD reservoirs are Atwood in Carroll and Tuscarawas counties; Beach City in Tuscarawas County; Bolivar in Stark and Tuscarawas counties; Charles Mill in Ashland and Richland counties; Clendening in Harrison County; Dover in Tuscarawas County; Leesville in Carroll County; Mohawk in Coshocton and Knox counties; Mohicanville in Ashland and Wayne counties; Piedmont in Belmont, Guernsey and Harrison counties; Pleasant Hill in Ashland and Richland counties; Seneca in Guernsey and Noble counties; Tappan in Harrison County; and Wills Creek in Coshocton and Muskingum counties

[spuddyduddy]

My mom saw Pretty Boy Floyd laid out. My grandpa Farrell Coleman's father was an owner of Gaston's mill in Beaver Creek State Park. Every time we went to the park, Grandpa would point out the place where Pretty Boy Floyd got shot. He "ALWAYS" told us; There's where pretty boy floyd got shot. It got so bad and we were so amused that eventually we all hollared every time we went by the spot. " THERE'S WHERE PRETTY BOY FLOYD GOT SHOT AND LAUGH LIKE CRAZY. AHH Those were the good old days. I sure do miss them days.

[htlong]

what building in Ohio is large enough to have its own atmosphere like rain inside of it?