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19: 31: 138: 83:. One was destroyed by a tornado shortly after its painting and was replaced. The barn painting program was conceived as a cost-effective way to advertise: each barn cost $ 1,500 to paint, about $ 500 less than the rent for a billboard. The painted barns celebrated the state's 200th anniversary in 2003. By 2013, many of the painted barns had faded or been repainted or torn down. Hagan went on to paint 157:
that bore the Commission's logo to the left, the words "1803 Ohio Bicentennial 2003" across the top, and a new six-digit numbering scheme. Previously, commemorative license plates had been issued for the state's sesquicentennial in 1953 and for the
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in 1995 to sponsor commemorative barn paintings, bells, and historical markers throughout the state in the years leading up to the celebration. Other state and federal agencies also marked the anniversary with special events and designations.
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event. The sides of the pig-shaped sculpture depict a bicentennial barn on one side and a cornfield on the other. After the event concluded, the sculpture was moved to the Earth's Harvest Agricultural Garden at the
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to paint a barn in each county with the committee's logo and colors. Nearly 2,000 barn owners volunteered their barns to be painted. In the end, Hagan painted 101 barns freehand, including one in each
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to cast a bronze bell on site, out in the open, in each county throughout the bicentennial year. Each 250-pound (110 kg) bell took two days to cast using a mobile foundry.
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released 632,032,000 quarters commemorating Ohio's bicentennial as part of its
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across the country. (The barn painting program is not to be confused with the
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A history of the bicentennial barns licensed by the Bicentennial Commission.
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to coincide with the 200th anniversary of statehood on March 1, 2003. The
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Bicentennial Barns of Ohio: A Tribute to the Barns and Their Owners
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From 1997 to September 2002, the Committee commissioned
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Index


Carroll County

Jefferson County
U.S. state
Ohio
Ohio General Assembly
Scott Hagan
Belmont County
county
barn advertisements
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Bicentennial Farm
The Verdin Company
Cincinnati
wagon train
National Road
Martins Ferry
Indiana
New Paris

Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles
states license plate
Northwest Territory
United States Mint
50 State Quarters
Ohio Historical Society
Adena Mansion
Thomas Worthington
Cincinnati

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