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Cincinnati was founded in 1788 as Losantiville; in 1790 Arthur St. Clair, the first governor of the Northwest Territory, renamed it for the Society of Cincinnati, a group of Revolutionary War officers. |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar of Dayton, Ohio is known as the poet laureate of African Americans. |
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Cincinnati, Ohio had the first professional city fire department. |
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