Ohio
457 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Birthplace of Presidents, Ohio's Political Improbability
- Canals, the National Road, and Ohio's First Infrastructure Age
- Ohioans in Orbit, The Astronaut State
- On Fire, The Cuyahoga River and the Birth of the Environmental Movement
- Tecumseh and the Last Stand for the Ohio Country
- The Brothers from Dayton, Flight and Its Ohio Origins
- The Coiled Earth, Adena, Hopewell, and the Great Serpent Mound
- The Land Between the Lake and the River
- The Northwest Ordinance and the Birth of Ohio
- The River Between, Ohio and the Underground Railroad
- The Rubber City, the Steel City, the Glass City
- What Ohio Means, A Closing Meditation
Near Akron
- B. F. Goodrich and the Rubber Gamble
- Barberton: The Magic City O.C. Barber Built
- Canton, Ohio: Where the NFL Was Born
- Cascade Locks: The Staircase and the Oatmeal King
- Cuyahoga Valley: The River That Caught Fire and Changed America
- Devo, Rubber City Rebels, and the New Liverpool
- Dr. Bob and the Birth of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Firestone Park: The Company Town Utopia
- Frank Seiberling and the Birth of Goodyear
- Goodyear Airdock: The Building That Held the Sky
- Hudson, Ohio: Connecticut's Colony and John Brown's Home
- John Brown's Akron: The Abolitionist Next Door
- LeBron James: Akron's Son
- MAPS Air Museum: Warbirds at Akron-Canton Airport
- McKinley Memorial: A President Comes Home
- Mogadore, Ohio
- North Canton, Ohio
- Peninsula, Ohio: Fourteen Bars and a River Bend
- Rubber Capital: How Akron Put America on Wheels
- Seville, Ohio
- Seville, Ohio: Named for Spain
- Sojourner Truth Speaks in Akron: The Women's Convention of 1851
- Stan Hywet Hall: The Palace Rubber Built
- Stan Hywet Hall: Where the Rubber Baron Built His Kingdom
- Streetsboro, Ohio: A Connecticut Man's Township
- Tallmadge, Ohio
- The Canal That Built a City: Akron's Founding
- The Goodyear Airdock and the Flying Aircraft Carrier
- The Hillbilly Highway: Akron's Appalachian Migration
- The Oatmeal King: Ferdinand Schumacher and American Breakfast
- The Portage Path: Where Two Rivers Almost Touched
- The River That Burned
- The Rust Belt Reckoning: When the Tires Stopped Rolling
- The Sit-Down Strike: Akron's Labor Revolution
- Treaty of Fort McIntosh Boundary Line
- University of Akron: Rubber Capital's Academic Engine
- University of Akron: Rubber Capital's Research Engine
- Wadsworth: The Match Capital of the World
- What the Rubber Left Behind: The Toxic Legacy
- Wooster Avenue: Black Akron and the Freeway That Erased It
Near Berlin
- Amish Furniture: Built to Last Generations
- Anabaptists: The Faith Born Under Persecution
- Behalt: The Painting That Circles the Room
- Berlin, Ohio: Center of the World's Largest Amish Community
- Bolivar, Ohio
- Dover, Ohio
- Fort Laurens: Ohio's Only Revolutionary War Fort
- Jakob Ammann and the Birth of the Amish
- Stone Creek: Two Names, One Train Ride
- Strasburg, Ohio
- The College of Wooster: Where Every Student Does Original Research
- The Divisions Within: Old Order, Andy Weaver, and Swartzentruber
- The Doubling Community: Why the Amish Population Keeps Growing
- The First Amish Settlers Come to Holmes County
- The Ordnung: The Unwritten Law That Governs Everything
- The Tourism Paradox: More Visitors Than Any Amish Town
- Two Berlins Name One Village
- Zoar: The German Utopia That Built Ohio's Canal
Near Cleveland
- A Christmas Story House
- Alan Freed, the Moondog Ball, and the First Rock Concert
- Berea, Ohio
- Brecksville, Ohio
- Brooklyn Heights: The Greenhouse Village
- Carl Stokes After Cleveland
- Carl Stokes, November 7, 1967
- Cleveland Clinic: Born from World War One
- Cuyahoga Heights: The Village That Seceded Over Taxes
- Euclid, Ohio
- Franklin Castle
- General Milan Rastislav Stefanik, Slovak National Hero
- Hope Memorial Bridge
- Hope Memorial Bridge: The Guardians of Traffic
- Ida Tarbell and the Dismantling of Standard Oil
- Irishtown Bend: Famine, the Flats, and What the Ground Remembers
- Jesse Owens and What Cleveland Claimed
- Karamu House: The Nation's Oldest Black Theater
- Kirtland Temple: The First House of the Lord
- Kirtland Temple: The First Latter-day Saint House of the Lord
- Kirtland Village: The First American Headquarters of a New Faith
- Kirtland: The First Mormon Headquarters
- Langston Hughes at Central High
- Lawnfield: Garfield's Front Porch and the First Presidential Library
- Lawnfield: Where the Presidency Was Won and the First Library Was Born
- Linndale, Ohio
- Millionaires' Row and Its End
- Moses Cleaveland and the Dropped Letter
- Muny Light and the Default
- North Royalton, Ohio: Vermont's Gift to Cuyahoga County
- Olmsted Falls: The Books That Named a Town
- Playhouse Square: From Ruin to the Nation's Second Stage
- Progressive Field: Escape from the Lake
- Progressive Field: From Jacobs Field to the Guardians
- Rock and Roll, Alan Freed, and the Renaming of Black Music
- Shaker Heights: Woodland Peoples to Garden Suburb
- St. Theodosius Cathedral: A Tremont Anchor and a Hollywood Set
- St. Theodosius Cathedral: Thirteen Domes Over Tremont
- St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral
- Standard Oil and the Cleveland Massacre
- Steel City: What the River Made and What It Cost
- Strongsville, Ohio
- Tamir Rice, November 22, 2014
- The 1929 Cleveland Clinic Disaster
- The Canal That Made Cleveland
- The Cuyahoga Valley Recovers
- The Glenville Shootout and the Night That Ended Cleveland: NOW!
- The Great Migration Reaches Cleveland
- The Hough Uprising, 1966
- The Immigrants Who Built the Flats
- The Penfield House: Frank Lloyd Wright Builds for a Giant
- The River That Burned, and the Law That Followed
- The Rock Hall Fight: Why Cleveland Won
- The Sam Sheppard Trial
- Tinkers Creek Aqueduct: Canal Over a Creek
- Ukrainian Museum-Archives
- Ukrainian Museum-Archives: Saving a Culture the Soviets Were Erasing
- West Side Market
- West Side Market: A Century of the City in One Building
- West Side Market: Cleveland's Cathedral of Commerce
Near Columbus
- Africa, Ohio
- Aminah Robinson's Hundred-and-Eighteen-Foot Memory
- Battelle and the Box That Changed Commerce
- Camp Chase: Confederate Graves in a Union City
- Camp Chase: Where the Confederacy Came to Columbus
- Capital University: Ohio's Oldest in the Suburbs
- Columbus, Ohio: The Mirror City
- Dublin, Ohio: An Irishman Names a Town
- Eddie Rickenbacker's Columbus Boyhood Home
- Elijah Pierce, Long Street, and the Barbershop That Was a Gallery
- Franklinton, Columbus's First Neighborhood
- Franklinton: The City That Came Before Columbus
- Gahanna: Three Creeks into One
- Galena, Ohio
- German Village: The World That Almost Disappeared Twice
- Grove City, Ohio
- Hanford Village: A Neighborhood Built for Black Veterans, Taken by the Interstate
- James Thurber's Columbus
- Kelton House, Columbus Underground Railroad Station
- Kelton House, Columbus, Underground Railroad Safe House
- King-Lincoln Bronzeville and the Lincoln Theatre
- New Albany, Ohio: A Planned Community That Became Real
- OCLC: The Library Behind Every Library
- Reynoldsburg, Ohio
- Shawnee Country: The Land Before Ohio
- The Columbus That Named Itself After Columbus
- The Flood That Reminded Columbus the Scioto Was a River
- The Horseshoe: A Religion Built in Concrete
- The Kelton House and the Last Street in Columbus
- The Ohio Pen's Women: A History Not Yet Written
- The Penitentiary Before the Fire: A Century of Ohio's Prison
- The Santa Maria That Sailed Nowhere
- The Scioto and the Olentangy: A Geography Lesson
- The Short North and the Gayborhood That Survived Itself
- The Statehouse Lincoln Used as a Stage
- Three Hundred Twenty-Two Men: The Ohio Penitentiary Fire
- Thurber House
- Urbancrest, Ohio
- Wendy's, White Castle, and the City That Tests America's Taste
- West Jefferson: The Town That Picked Up and Moved
- Wolf's Ridge for Sale: The Deal That Made Columbus
- Worthington, Ohio , Connecticut in Ohio
Near Dayton
- America's Packard Museum: The Cars of the Gilded Age
- Birthplace of Tecumseh
- Charles Kettering and the Self-Starting Machine
- Clark, Kenton, and Boone at the Little Miami
- Enon: Springs of the Bible Belt
- Franklin: Schenck's Bet on the Great Miami
- George Barrett's Cement House
- Gowdy Cemetery: Xenia's Founding Generations
- Helen Hooven Santmyer: Bestseller at Eighty-Eight
- Huffman Prairie and the First Practical Airplane
- Huffman Prairie: Where Flight Was Actually Mastered
- John Patterson, NCR, and the Paternalistic Factory
- Miami and Erie Canal Lock Fifteen
- Miamisburg: The Town That Saved Its Mound
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Elevator Man and the Poet
- Springboro: Twenty-Seven Safe Houses
- SunWatch, the Village Before the City
- SunWatch: The Planned Village That Predated Columbus by Two Centuries
- The Dayton Accords and a Peace Signed on a Military Base
- The Deindustrialization of the Gem City
- The Gem City at the Confluence
- The Great Flood of 1913 and the Dry Dams That Followed
- The Oregon District and the Weight of August Fourth
- The Wright Cycle Shop and the Invention of Flight
- The Xenia Tornado of Nineteen Seventy-Four
- Tipp City, Ohio
- Vandalia, Ohio
- West Carrollton, Ohio: The Other Carrollton
- West Dayton, the Color Line, and the Nineteen Sixty-Six Uprising
- Wright Cycle Company: Where Flight Began in a Bicycle Shop
- Wright Flyer III: The Plane the Wrights Called Their Best
- Wright-Patterson and the UFOs in the Filing Cabinets
- Wright-Patterson: Where the Wright Brothers' Hometown Became the Air Force's Brain
Near Put In Bay
Near Toledo
- Battle of Fallen Timbers
- Bowling Green, Ohio: From the Black Swamp to Crystal City
- Custer Homestead
- DeVilbiss and the Atomizer: How a Doctor's Invention Painted the World
- Dorr Street: Toledo's Black Mecca and the Cost of Urban Renewal
- Fort Meigs: Gibraltar of the Northwest
- Fort Meigs: Where Ohio Held the Line
- Fort Miami
- Fort Miami: The Fort That Shut Its Gates
- Fort Miamis: The Gate the British Slammed Shut
- Fort Miamis: Where Britain Abandoned Its Native Allies
- Genoa, Ohio: The Straight-Line Decision
- Inverness Club
- Lake Erie's Algae Crisis: When Toledo Lost Its Water
- Libbey-Owens-Ford: The Glass That Kept You Safe at Sixty Miles Per Hour
- Maumee, Ohio
- Maumee, Ohio: Where the River Made History
- Pemberville Town Hall and Opera House
- Perrysburg, Ohio
- Rossford, Ohio
- Rossford, Ohio: A Company Town Named for Love
- The Anthony Wayne Bridge: When Toledo Finally Crossed the River
- The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934: When Toledo Changed American Labor
- The Battle of Fallen Timbers: The Fight That Opened the Northwest
- The Coast Guard: America's Oldest Maritime Defenders
- The Glass City: How Natural Gas Turned Toledo into a World Industry
- The Long Hot Summer: Toledo's Nineteen Sixty-Seven Uprising
- The Miami and Erie Canal: How Toledo Was Born from a Merger
- The Old West End: Where the Glass Barons Built Their Houses
- The Toledo Mud Hens: America's Most Famous Minor League Team
- The Toledo Museum of Art: A Glassmaker's Gift to His City
- The Toledo War: A Border Dispute Decided by a Penknife
- The Underground Railroad in Toledo: The Last Stop Before Canada
- Toledo Museum of Art: Glass Built This
- Toledo Zoo and Aquarium
- Tony Packo's: A Hungarian Hot Dog and a Television Legend
- Willys-Overland and the Jeep: Toledo's Most Famous Vehicle
Near Youngstown
- Austintown, Ohio: Named for the Land Agent
- Black Monday: September 19, 1977
- Brier Hill: The Welsh Who Built a Neighborhood and a Union
- Canfield, Ohio
- Coal, Iron, and the Canal That Changed Everything
- Crimetown USA: The Car Bomb Wars
- Girard, Ohio: Named for a Philadelphia Millionaire
- McDonald, Ohio
- Mill Creek Park: The First Park District in Ohio
- Newton Falls, Ohio: Falls on Two Branches
- Stambaugh Auditorium: A Steel Magnate's Dying Gift
- The Arsenal of Democracy: Youngstown Goes to War
- The Butler Institute: America's First Museum of American Art
- The East Youngstown Riot of 1916
- The Ecumenical Coalition and the Fight to Save the Mills
- The Great Migration Comes to the Steel Valley
- The KKK, the Niles Riot, and Immigrant Resistance
- The Little Steel Strike and the Women's Day Massacre
- The Western Reserve and John Young's Bargain
- Youngstown 2010: The City That Chose to Shrink
Along the way
- Allen County Courthouse: Lima's Victorian Crown
- Andrew Powell Home Site — Underground Railroad
- Armstrong Air and Space Museum
- Ashland, Ohio: The Balloon Capital of the World
- Ashtabula: Covered Bridges and the Underground Railroad
- Athens, Ohio: The First University Town on the Frontier
- Auglaize County Courthouse
- Bainbridge, Ohio: Where American Dentistry Was Invented
- Beaverdam, Ohio: Named for the Builders
- Belle Valley: When the Sky Fell
- Belpre, Where Lewis and Clark Passed Through
- Belpre: Ohio's First Permanent Settlement South of the River
- Blennerhassett Island: Aaron Burr's Western Conspiracy
- Blue Ash, Ohio
- Bluffton, Ohio
- Butterworth Station: Underground Railroad's Southern Edge
- Byesville, Ohio
- Byesville: Coal Capital of Southeastern Ohio
- Caldwell, Ohio
- Cambridge, Ohio: Named for an Island
- Cambridge: Guernsey Glass Capital
- Camp Dennison: Seventy-Five Thousand Soldiers and a Raid
- Canton, Ohio, Where the NFL Was Born
- Cedar Mills and the Iron Furnace of Cedar Run
- Charles Martin Hall and the Discovery of Aluminum
- Chateau Laroche, The Castle Harry Built
- Chesterhill Quakers and the Underground Railroad
- Chillicothe: Capital Twice Over
- Chippewa Lake, Ohio
- Chippewa Lake: One Hundred Years, Then Silence
- Cincinnati Chili: Refugee Food That Became Civic Identity
- Cincinnati Observatory: Where American Astronomy Was Born
- Clark Stone House — Built by a Drummer at Yorktown
- Col. Crawford Burn Site Monument
- Colonel John Voll: Twenty-One Kills Over the Mediterranean
- Conneaut: Where Cleveland Began and Carnegie Moved Iron
- Coshocton County Courthouse: The Canal Town's Crown
- Cygnet, Ohio
- Dawes Arboretum
- Delaware, Ohio , Birthplace of a President
- Devola, Ohio
- Early Settlers Burying Ground and Ephraim Cutler's Ohio
- Eaton, Ohio
- Eldean Covered Bridge
- Eliza and the Frozen River
- Ephraim Cutler and the One Vote That Kept Ohio Free
- Findlay Market: Ohio's Oldest Open
- Findlay, Ohio
- First Ladies National Historic Site
- First Ladies National Historic Site
- Forest Fair Mall: The Mall That Failed on Opening Day
- Fort Ancient: The People Before the City
- Fort Ancient: Two Thousand Years of Sacred Geometry
- Fort Harmar: Gateway to the Northwest Territory
- Fort Jefferson: The Chain That Held the Northwest
- Fort Winchester: Harrison's War of 1812 Supply Base
- Garrettsville, Ohio
- Geneva, Ohio: The Lake Erie Grape Belt
- Glendale: America's First Planned Suburb
- Gnadenhutten: Ohio's Oldest European Settlement
- Gnadenhutten: The Worst Atrocity of the Revolutionary War
- Greenville: Where the Indian Wars Ended
- Hamilton, Ohio: Fort to Paper Capital
- Harding Tomb, Marion Ohio
- Harmar: Ohio's First Military Post
- Harmony Hill and the Father of Clermont County
- Harpersfield Covered Bridge
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Eighteen Years in Cincinnati
- Harrison, Ohio
- Haydenville: Ohio's Last Company Town
- Henderson Hall: A Plantation Frozen in Time
- Hocking Valley Scenic Railway: Ohio's Coal Road Lives On
- Hopeton Earthworks
- Indian Hill: Shawnee and Miami Hunting Ground to Cincinnati's Estate Village
- Jeffersonville, Ohio
- John Parker: He Crossed the River
- Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum: A World in One County
- Johnston Barn: A Gentleman Farmer's Frontier Vision
- Judge Symmes and the Miami Purchase
- Junction: Where Two Great Canals Met
- Kenyon College: Bishops, Poets, and Presidents in Knox County
- Kirkersville: A Governor's Family Land
- Lafcadio Hearn: The Journalist Who Crossed the Line
- Lawnfield: Garfield's Front-Porch Campaign
- Lebanon, Ohio
- Leesburg, Ohio: Highland County's Quiet Village
- Levi Coffin in Cincinnati
- Lewisburg: Preble County's First Municipality
- Lockington Dam: Engineering the End of Floods
- Lockington, Ohio: Seven Locks on the Canal
- Lockland, Ohio: Where the Canal Climbed
- Lorain: Steel, the Deadliest Tornado in Ohio History, and Toni Morrison
- Lower Salem, Ohio
- Ludlow Station: St. Clair and Mad Anthony Wayne
- Manasseh Cutler Hall: First College West of the Alleghenies
- Manchester: Ohio's Oldest Town
- Mansfield, Ohio, The Reformatory and The Shawshank Redemption
- Mansfield, Ohio: The Shawshank Prison and the City That Saved It
- Marengo, Ohio
- Marian Spencer and the Sunlite Pool
- Mariemont Ohio: Mound Builders to Model Town
- Mariemont: A Philanthropist's Model Town
- Middletown, Ohio: Midway Between Two Cities
- Milan, Ohio: The Canal Boomtown That Made a Genius
- Milan, Ohio: Where Edison Began
- Milan, Ohio: Where Edison Began
- Milford Methodist: Oldest Church in the Northwest Territory
- Mill Creek: The River That Died and the Long Argument Over Whether to Revive It
- Miller-Leuser Log House: One Hundred Seventy Years of Anderson Township
- Monroe, Ohio: Named for the President
- Morristown, Ohio
- Mount Vernon: Where Dixie Was Written
- Music Hall and the May Festival
- Muskingum River: Ohio's Hand-Cranked Waterway
- Muskingum University: Where John Glenn Learned to Reach
- Neville, Ohio: A River Village Undone by Floods
- New Concord, Ohio
- New Paris: Kentucky Nostalgia in Preble County
- New Richmond and The Philanthropist
- New Richmond: Where Abolition Found Its Voice
- Newcomerstown, Ohio
- Newtown, Ohio
- North Baltimore, Ohio: Swamp, Railroad, and the Oil Boom
- Norwich, Ohio
- Oak Hill Cottage: A Gothic Revival Gem
- Oberlin College and the First Integrated Classroom
- Oberlin College: The Radical Experiment
- Oberlin: The College That Defied the Fugitive Slave Act
- Ohio State Reformatory: Castle of Redemption and Ruin
- Ohio University: The First on the Frontier
- Ohio Wesleyan University
- Ohio's First Quaker Meeting: Colerain Township
- Old Washington, Ohio
- Over-the-Rhine: Forty-Eighters and Lager Beer
- Paramount Arts Center, Ashland Kentucky
- Paulding County Carnegie Library: First of Its Kind
- Peebles Corner: Where the Cable Cars Sparked a Neighborhood
- Peebles: Where Zane's Trace Met the Rails
- Peters Cartridge Company
- Pickawillany: The Village That Triggered a World War
- Piqua: Underwear Capital of the World
- Port Washington: Canal Town on the Ohio and Erie
- Portsmouth and the Scioto Valley
- Putnam Family Library — Belpre Farmers' Library
- Reno, Ohio: Named for a Soldier
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church: Ohio Frontier Faith
- Sherwood Anderson and Winesburg, Ohio
- Sidney: A Town Named for a Poet
- Silverton, Ohio
- Smolen-Gulf Bridge: Longest Covered Bridge in the United States
- Sodaville Mineral Springs Resort
- South Lebanon, Ohio
- South Vienna: Austria on the National Road
- Spiegel Grove: The Hayes Estate
- Spring Grove Cemetery: The City of the Dead That Invented the Park
- Springfield, Ohio: The Champion City and the Club That Became 4-H
- St. Clairsville, Ohio
- Sunbury, Ohio
- The Ashtabula Horror: America's Worst Rail Wreck of the 1800s
- The Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society
- The Hopewell Network: Trade Routes Before Europe Arrived
- The Lane Debates: When the Students Were Right
- The Madisonville Site: Ohio's Largest Fort Ancient Village
- The Marsh Foundation School
- The Martin Marmon House: Quakers Move North
- The Newark Earthworks: A Geometry That Aligns to the Moon
- The Ridges: Athens Lunatic Asylum
- The S Bridge: Engineering Trick on the National Road
- The Tavern on the National Road
- The Tonkens House, Frank Lloyd Wright in Cincinnati
- The Tremont House: Stagecoach Stop on the Maumee Pike
- The W. P. Snyder Jr., Last Steam Towboat
- The West End: What Urban Renewal Destroyed
- Theodore Roosevelt Game Preserve: Ohio's First Wildlife Area
- Timothy Thomas and the Collaborative Agreement
- Toni Morrison and the Lorain That Made Her
- Two Unknown Soldiers of Mad Anthony Wayne's Army
- Union Terminal: The Station That Outlasted Its Purpose
- Urbana: The Polite City on Shawnee Ground
- USS Shenandoah: America's First Rigid Airship, Lost Over Ohio
- Van Wert County Courthouse
- Vermilion, Ohio: Harbor Town and Great Lakes Museum
- Wapakoneta: First on the Moon, Last Exit Before Space
- Wauseon, Ohio: A Railroad Town Steals the County Seat
- Wayne National Forest — Ohio's Only National Forest and the Coal Country It Covers
- Westfield Center, Ohio
- Westfield Center: A Mutual Agreement That Became a Fortune Five Hundred Firm
- Wickerham Inn: Zane's Trace, Runaway Slaves, and Morgan's Raiders
- Windham, Ohio: The Beckett Company's Village
- Wyandot Mission Church: The First Western Methodist Mission
- Xavier University: Ohio's Oldest Catholic Campus
- Zanesville, Ohio, The Y-Bridge Town