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East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio was the site of the first pedestrian button for the control of a traffic light. The boy chosen for the 1948 newsreel to demonstrate its operation was Louis Spronze. |
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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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Fostoria, Ohio is the only city to be situated in three counties (Seneca, Hancock & Wood). |
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