• the metal finishing on more than 10,000 Olympic torches used in the torch relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was done by the Erie Plating Company?

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Erie, Pennsylvania

• American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania?
• before becoming mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania in 1862, Prescott Metcalf started two railroads, numerous manufacturing firms, and was the director of a canal?
• in 1901, the steamboat City of Erie (pictured) beat the steamboat Tashmoo in a 94-mile (151 km) long race, from Cleveland, Ohio, to Erie, Pennsylvania, by 45 seconds?
• the Dickson Tavern is the oldest building in Erie, Pennsylvania?
• the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie, Pennsylvania the most?

Pennsylvania

• 12 died in the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster when the Susquehanna River crashed into a Pennsylvania anthracite coal mine?
• American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania?
• Early Archaic peoples used the Houserville Site in Pennsylvania ten millennia ago?
• caterpillars of the Oak leafroller (pictured) and Oak leaftier moths are major defoliators of oak trees, with leafroller timber losses in Pennsylvania of over $100,000,000 in the early 1970s?
• Laporte (courthouse pictured), one of thirteen municipalities in Sullivan County, is Pennsylvania's smallest county seat by population?
• Larrys Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed, including one named "Little Dog Run"?
• Native Americans lived at the Canfield Island Site (pictured) on the West Branch Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania for thousands of years, and now hold an annual pow wow there?
• Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge (remnants pictured) was the world's longest and tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado in 2003?
• Pennsylvania's longest cave extends from Harlansburg to Rose Point, over 11 miles (18 km) away?
• Bald Eagle Creek Path along Bald Eagle Creek in central Pennsylvania was a major connecting path between the Iroquois in the north and the Carolinas in the south?

Ohio

• actor and broadcaster Dean Miller, who played the son-in-law on CBS's December Bride, later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio?
• Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad?
• Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
• microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans?
• Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
• Ohio's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University?
• Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County, Ohio, to have ever received the Medal of Honor?
• Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio, USA, is home to both Little Beaver Creek, a National Scenic River, and a restored 1837 mill?
• Buck Creek State Park in Ohio contains a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead, and patches of original prairie?