Portal:Ohio/Did you know/2

• ...that John Baldwin (pictured) named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip?

• ...that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?

• ...that although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?

• ...that Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879?