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Want to vote for Ohio’s statue in the Capitol? Here’s how
Voting will start at 36 sites across Ohio on March 20 to get public input on which Ohioan should represent the state in Statuary Hall in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Voting will run through June 12.
The sites, announced on Wednesday, March 3, include these in the Dayton area:
*Dunbar House, Dayton
*National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce
*Fort Ancient, Oregonia
*Fort Recovery, Fort Recovery
Ohioans also will be able to vote online at www.legacyforohio.org. Information on the 10 finalists is available at www.ohiohistorycentral.org.
“I think we’ll show due deference” to the voters for who should represent Ohio, Sen. Mark Wagoner, R-Ottawa Hills, chairman of the National Statuary Collection Study Committee said.
The committee expects to make a recommendation in July from among 10 finalists. The legislature is expected to vote up or down on the committee’s recommendation when it returns in the fall.
The 10 finalists are:
*Wright brothers, aviation pioneers from Dayton
*U.S. Rep. William McCulloch, civil rights champion from Piqua
*Thomas Edison, inventor
*Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author
*Jesse Owens, Olympic gold medal winner
*Harriet Taylor Upton, women’s suffrage activist
*James M. Ashley, Toledo congressman and abolitionist
*Judith Resnik, Akron astronaut who died on the Challenger
*Albert Sabin, Cincinnati, creator of oral polio vaccine
*Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president and Civil War general.
Candidates must be deceased to be considered for Statuary Hall.
The winner will replace former Gov. William Allen. Allen’s pro-slavery and anti-President Abraham Lincoln views caused state officials to decide his statue should be removed and returned to Ohio.
Each state gets two representatives in Statuary Hall. Ohio’s other representative is President James Garfield.
Here’s a list of other Ohio sites where people can vote:
Adena Mansion & Gardens 847 Adena Rd. Chillicothe, OH 45601 www.ohiohistory.org/Adena
Armstrong Air & Space Museum 500 Apollo Dr. Wapakoneta, OH 45895 www.ohiohistory.org/Armstrong
Buckeye Furnace 123 Buckeye Park Rd. Wellston, OH 45692 www.ohiohistory.org/BuckeyeFurnace
Campus Martius 601 Second St. Marietta, OH 45750 www.ohiohistory.org/CampusMartius
Cedar Bog 980 Woodburn Rd. Urbana, OH 43078 www.ohiohistory.org/CedarBog
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal 1301 Western Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45203 http://www.cincymuseum.org
Cooke House 1415 Columbus Ave. Sandusky, OH
www.ohiohistory.org/CookeEulett Center 4274 Waggoner Riffle Rd. West Union, OH 45693 www.cincymuseum.org/exploreoursites/edgeappalachia/eulettcenter.asp
Flint Ridge 7091 Brownsville Rd. SE Glenford, OH 43739 www.ohiohistory.org/FlintRidge
Fort Hill 13614 Fort Hill Rd. Hillsboro, OH 45133 www.ohiohistory.org/FortHill
Fort Meigs 29100 West River Rd. Perrysburg, OH 43552 www.ohiohistory.org/FortMeigs
Fort Recovery One Fort Site St. Ft. Recovery, OH 45846-9314 www.ohiohistory.org/FortRecovery
Grant Birthplace 1551 State Rt. 232 Point Pleasant, OH 45157 www.ohiohistory.org/Grant
Grant boyhood home 318 W. State St. Georgetown, OH 45121
Hale Farm & Village 2686 Oak Hill Rd. Bath, OH 44210 www.halefarm.org
Harding Home 380 Mt. Vernon Ave. Marion, OH 43302 www.ohiohistory.org/Harding
Hayes Presidential Center 1 Spiegel Grove Fremont, OH 43420 www.ohiohistory.org/Hayes
Museum of Ceramics 400 East Fifth St. East Liverpool, OH 43920 www.ohiohistory.org/Ceramics
Newark Earthworks 455 Hebron Rd. (State Rt. 79) Newark, OH 43056 www.ohiohistory.org/Newark
Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Ave. Columbus, OH 43211 www.ohiohistory.org/OHC
Ohio River Museum 601 Front St. Marietta, OH 45750 www.ohiohistory.org/OhioRiver Ohio Statehouse 1 Capitol Square Columbus, OH 43215 www.ohiostatehouse.org
Our House 432 1st Ave. Gallipolis, OH 45631 www.ohiohistory.org/OurHouse
Rankin House 6152 Rankin Hill Rd. Ripley, OH 45167 www.ohiohistory.org/Rankin
Schoenbrunn Village 1984 East High Ave. New Philadelphia, OH 44663 www.ohiohistory.org/Schoenbrunn
Serpent Mound 3850 State Route 73 Peebles, OH 45660 www.ohiohistory.org/SerpentMound
Shaker Historical Museum 16740 South Park Blvd. Shaker Heights, OH 44120 www.ohiohistory.org/Shaker
Harriet Beecher Stowe House 2950 Gilbert Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45206 www.ohiohistory.org/Stowe
Wahkeena 2200 Pump Station Rd. Sugar Grove, OH 43155 www.ohiohistory.org/Wahkeena
Western Reserve Historical Society Museum 10825 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44106 www.wrhs.org
Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor 151 West Wood St. Youngstown, OH 44503 www.ohiohistory.org/Youngstown
Zoar Village 250 Main St. Zoar, OH 44697 www.ohiohistory.org/Zoar
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Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for 18 years. She taught school, wrote books, gave birth to 6 children—all in Ohio. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the first best-selling book in America (and a best-seller in England)was truly a work that “changed our world.” Its personalized account of how slavery cruelly ripped families apart did much to turn the North against the evils of slavery. Her inspiration for this incredible book was based on many sources. The incredible Rankin family of Ripley, who guided so many along the Underground Railroad and whom she knew well, as 3 Rankin sons lived in Cincinnati and went to the Lane Seminary school where her father and husband taught and her brother attended provided one source. She herself had her own personal experiences with slavery and the death of a young child from cholera. It was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s unique genius that put it all together. It’s time to recognize this great woman, who lived at a time when women could not vote and usually did not even speak in public.
By Ann
March 5, 2010 5:55 PM | Link to this
Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for 18 years. She taught school, wrote books, gave birth to 6 children—all in Ohio. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the first best-selling book in America (and a best-seller in England)was truly a work that “changed our world.” Its personalized account of how slavery cruelly ripped families apart did much to turn the North against the evils of slavery. Her inspiration for this incredible book was based on many sources. The incredible Rankin family of Ripley, who guided so many along the Underground Railroad and whom she knew well, as 3 Rankin sons lived in Cincinnati and went to the Lane Seminary school where her father and husband taught and her brother attended provided one source. She herself had her own personal experiences with slavery and the death of a young child from cholera. It was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s unique genius that put it all together. It’s time to recognize this great woman, who lived at a time when women could not vote and usually did not even speak in public.
By David K. McClurkin
March 4, 2010 6:58 PM | Link to this
www.legacyforohio.org is the place to go to link to write-ups for each of the candidates. Click the name of each finalist in the right hand box one by one and it opens the correct page at the mentioned Ohio History Central site. Going directly to OHC just gets you a search bar to fill in the name you want. Also, there is no online voting as reported. Here’s what the press release actually says: “Ballots will also be available for download at www.legacyforohio.org, but in an effort to help ensure there is only one vote per person, printed ballots must be signed and returned to the Ohio Historical Society via mail or via scanned e-mail.”
By David K. McClurkin
March 4, 2010 6:39 PM | Link to this
www.legacyforohio.org is the place to go to link to each of the candidates. Click the name of each finalist in the right hand box one by one and it opens the correct page at the mentioned Ohio History Central site. Also, there is no online voting. Here’s what the press release actually says: “Ballots will also be available for download at www.legacyforohio.org, but in an effort to help ensure there is only one vote per person, printed ballots must be signed and returned to the Ohio Historical Society via mail or via scanned e-mail.”
By Old Scratch
March 4, 2010 11:20 AM | Link to this
I will vote for the most Reverend Raleigh Trammell. He has the best hats Ohio has ever seen.
By Old Scratch
March 4, 2010 11:19 AM | Link to this
I will vote for the most Reverend Raleigh Trammell. He has the best hats Ohio has ever seen.
By Russell J.
March 4, 2010 10:45 AM | Link to this
My vote is John Dillinger too. My grandfather was a handyman at a Dayton trailer park where Dillinger had a girlfriend whom he would visit on occasion. My grandfather said that Dillinger was very friendly and generous with everyone there and was well liked. No one from there ever turned him in, either. I think that says it all.
By Russell J.
March 4, 2010 10:43 AM | Link to this
My vote is John Dillinger too. My grandfather was a handyman at a Dayton trailer park where Dillinger had a girlfriend whom he would visit on occasion. My grandfather said that Dillinger was very friendly and generous with everyone there and was well liked. No one from there ever turned him in, either. I think that says it all.
By Stephanie Reed
March 4, 2010 10:25 AM | Link to this
Put me down as a write-in for John Rankin! Stowe could not have written about Eliza’s ice crossing in UNCLE TOM’S CABIN without Rankin’s input. I’ve written two books about the Rankins. You can read excerpts free at my Web site, www.stephanielreed.com. The Rankin family were true Ohio heroes.
By null
March 4, 2010 7:24 AM | Link to this
John Rankin would have been a fine choice, especially since the nominated short-term Ohioan Harriet Beecher Stowe based a character on him in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I thought the Armstrong Museum was closed for renovations presently.
By stop spending
March 4, 2010 6:16 AM | Link to this
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By SickerThanYou
March 4, 2010 12:59 AM | Link to this
How’d they forget Charles Manson?
By Sasquatch
March 3, 2010 11:00 PM | Link to this
My vote is for John Dillinger, the best banker ever in Ohio. He provided more stimulus money than Obama ever will.
By Read Please
March 3, 2010 9:42 PM | Link to this
Vote where?—please note that the voting does not start until March 20th. I am sure there will plenty of more stories to remind you to vote once the polls are actually open.
By vote where?
March 3, 2010 8:46 PM | Link to this
I went on the websites listed in your article and was not able to find the info on the Ohio History website and unable to vote on the legacyforOhio website. DDN should really check out these websites before they put info about it in an article. I would like to vote for the Wright Bros. Mr. John Rankin would have been an excellent choice as well.
By Keith
March 3, 2010 6:07 PM | Link to this
You can vote at the Rankin house, but you can’t vote for John Rankin, one of the nation’s leading abolitionists. Too bad. I’ll have to fly with the Wright boys then!