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1953 3c Ohio Statehood
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U.S. #1018
3¢ Ohio Statehood
Issue Date: March 2, 1953
City: Chillicothe, OH
Quantity: 118,706,000
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Perforations: 11 x 10½
Color: Chocolate
Ohio's path to statehood began in the years following the American Revolution, when the land became part of the Northwest Territory, the young nation's first organized territory carved from lands ceded by Great Britain. As settlers moved into the region and its population grew, Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, allowing residents to draft a state constitution and pursue admission to the Union. A convention completed the new constitution in just twenty five days that same year, and Ohio's first state legislature convened in Chillicothe, then serving as the capital, on March 1, 1803.
For a century and a half, that date stood as Ohio's officially recognized entry into the Union as the seventeenth state and the first carved from the Northwest Territory. In preparing for Ohio's sesquicentennial celebration, however, researchers discovered that Congress had never formally completed the final legal step, ratifying the state's constitution, back in 1803, a bureaucratic oversight that technically left Ohio's statehood in limbo for 150 years. Ohio Congressman George H. Bender introduced legislation to correct the error, and in 1953 Congress formally granted Ohio statehood retroactive to that original March 1, 1803 date.
This stamp was issued fittingly in Chillicothe, the site of Ohio's first legislative session, honoring the sesquicentennial of that long recognized founding date even as the oversight was being formally corrected in Washington. The design features an outline of the state paired with its official seal, framed by sixteen stars representing the states admitted before Ohio and a seventeenth star marking Ohio's own place in the Union. A small buckeye leaf and nut round out the design, a nod to the nickname that has long defined the state's identity.
U.S. #1018
3¢ Ohio Statehood
Issue Date: March 2, 1953
City: Chillicothe, OH
Quantity: 118,706,000
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Perforations: 11 x 10½
Color: Chocolate
Ohio's path to statehood began in the years following the American Revolution, when the land became part of the Northwest Territory, the young nation's first organized territory carved from lands ceded by Great Britain. As settlers moved into the region and its population grew, Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, allowing residents to draft a state constitution and pursue admission to the Union. A convention completed the new constitution in just twenty five days that same year, and Ohio's first state legislature convened in Chillicothe, then serving as the capital, on March 1, 1803.
For a century and a half, that date stood as Ohio's officially recognized entry into the Union as the seventeenth state and the first carved from the Northwest Territory. In preparing for Ohio's sesquicentennial celebration, however, researchers discovered that Congress had never formally completed the final legal step, ratifying the state's constitution, back in 1803, a bureaucratic oversight that technically left Ohio's statehood in limbo for 150 years. Ohio Congressman George H. Bender introduced legislation to correct the error, and in 1953 Congress formally granted Ohio statehood retroactive to that original March 1, 1803 date.
This stamp was issued fittingly in Chillicothe, the site of Ohio's first legislative session, honoring the sesquicentennial of that long recognized founding date even as the oversight was being formally corrected in Washington. The design features an outline of the state paired with its official seal, framed by sixteen stars representing the states admitted before Ohio and a seventeenth star marking Ohio's own place in the Union. A small buckeye leaf and nut round out the design, a nod to the nickname that has long defined the state's identity.
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