Permias Columbus: About Columbus

For those of you who are not familiar with the Midwest area, you may think that Columbus is all grass and corn fields. That is absolutely false! Columbus is one of the metropolitan cities in the state of Ohio, and is in fact the capital city of Ohio. The city has an eclectic mix of people, from students to professionals. It only takes a two-hour drive to Cincinnati and Cleveland, the two busiest cities of Ohio, and approximately a six-hour drive to the windy city of Illinois, Chicago.

You can find whatever you need here: restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, superstores, shopping centers, libraries, parks, the country’s #1 zoo* and even a famous roller coaster park called Cedar Pointe not far from the city. And most importantly, it is home to the Buckeyes family!

OHIO – A little trivia:

1. Ohio - where the phrase "Birthplace of Aviation" is etched on license plates -
was where flight was born, Buckeyes claim, because the Wright brothers made their
plans and constructed their aircraft in their bicycle shop on Dayton's West Side.

2. 7 US presidents were born in Ohio, being: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes,
James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft, and Warren G.
Harding.

3. The first hot dog was created in Ohio by Harry M. Stevens in 1900.

4. Teflon was invented by Roy J. Plunkett of New Carlisle in 1938.

5. Well-known personalities from Ohio include: Steven Spielberg, Drew Carey, Annie
Oakley, Paul Newman, Arsenio Hall & Clark Gable.

6. The famous inventor from Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison, invented or developed the
incandescent light bulb, phonograph, and the early motion picture camera.

7. Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, Ohio, became the first man to walk on the moon.

8. Ohio is also the state that has produced the most astronauts, 24 in all, including John
Glenn and Neil Armstrong.