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    Piqua (/ˈpɪkwə/ PIK-wə) is a city in Miami County, Ohio, United States, along the Great Miami River. The population was 20,354 at the 2020 census. Located...
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    Piqua Nuclear Power Facility was an organic cooled and moderated nuclear reactor which operated just outside the southern city limits of Piqua, Ohio in...
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  • Piqua may refer to: Pekowi, a band of the Shawnee Native American tribe and the origin of the word "Piqua" Piqua, Kansas Piqua, Kentucky Piqua, Ohio This...
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    Hartzell Propeller (category Manufacturing companies based in Ohio)
    homebuilt, and ultralight aircraft. The company is headquartered in Piqua, Ohio. Hartzell also produces spinners, governors, ice protection systems,...
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    Miami and Erie Canal (category Canals in Ohio)
    (31 km) between New Bremen, Ohio to lock 1-S in Lockington, north of Piqua, Ohio. Boats up to 80 feet long were towed along the canal by mules, horses...
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    engagement fought on August 8, 1780, at the Indian village of Piqua along the Mad River in western Ohio Country between the Kentucky County militia under General...
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    William H. Pitsenbarger (category People from Piqua, Ohio)
    Pitsenbarger was born in 1944 to Irene and William Pitsenbarger. He grew up in Piqua, Ohio, a small town near Dayton. As a junior in high school, he tried to enlist...
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  • Piqua High School is a public high school in Piqua, Ohio, United States, and is the only high school in the Piqua City Schools district. The current high...
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    of Piqua, Ohio. The first post office in Piqua was established in March 1882. Piqua is located on U.S. Route 54 and is east of U.S. Route 75. Piqua is...
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  • Piqua Center (formerly the Miami Valley Centre Mall) is an enclosed shopping mall in Piqua, Ohio, United States, opened in 1988. The mall's anchor store...
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    The former Piqua High School, built in 1914, is an historic building located at 316 North College Street in Piqua, Ohio. Also known as Piqua Central High...
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    Martha De Laurentiis (category People from Piqua, Ohio)
    10, 1954, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Piqua, Ohio. In 1972, she was crowned Ohio's Junior Miss. She attended Ball State University and worked...
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    The Mills Brothers (category People from Piqua, Ohio)
    Fame in 1998. The Mills Brothers were born into a family of nine in Piqua, Ohio, United States. The quartet consisted of Donald (lead tenor vocals, April...
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  • The Ohio State Sports Network from Learfield is an American radio network consisting of 62 radio stations which carry coverage of Ohio State Buckeyes football...
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  • Helen Schelle (category People from Piqua, Ohio)
    (1893 in Piqua, Ohio – 12 April 1984 in Piqua, Ohio) was co-founder of the toy manufacturing company Fisher-Price. Schelle was born in Piqua, Ohio and moved...
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  • Captain Underpants (category Novels set in Ohio)
    around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys'...
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    Pickawillany (category Geography of Miami County, Ohio)
    located on the Great Miami River in North America's Ohio Valley near the modern city of Piqua, Ohio. In 1749 an English trading post was established alongside...
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    Words", appears in a 1913 newspaper advertisement for the Piqua Auto Supply House of Piqua, Ohio. Early use of the exact phrase appears in a 1918 newspaper...
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    Stephen Clegg Rowan (category People from Piqua, Ohio)
    Ireland, Rowan came to the United States at the age of 10 and lived in Piqua, Ohio. Rowan was a graduate of Miami University and was appointed as a midshipman...
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    Chicago: Beers, 1880, 397. Rayner, John A. The First Century of Piqua, Ohio. Piqua: Magee Brothers, 1916, 192. Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
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  • The Piqua Picks were a minor league baseball teams based in Piqua, Ohio. In 1911, the Piqua Picks played a partial season as members of the Class D level...
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  • Piqua City Schools is a school district headquartered in Piqua, Ohio. The district includes Piqua, as well as most of Springcreek Township and Washington...
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    Miami Indian village of Pickawillany (near present Piqua, Ohio). Relying on his report, the Ohio Company began selling land in what later became Western...
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    branching off to the north again at North Elm Street. The business loop in Piqua is actually the continuation of the one in Troy. It runs along a former...
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    Terri Hemmert (category People from Piqua, Ohio)
    featured speaker at many Beatles conventions worldwide. Hemmert grew up in Piqua, Ohio. As a youth she saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show and was inspired...
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    state of Ohio in his will, providing money for the purchase of land and supplies. They founded Rossville, now part of Piqua, Ohio and Rumley, Ohio. His supporters...
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  • athletics programs in the U.S. state of Ohio. Akron Cincinnati Bowling Green Cleveland State Dayton Kent State Miami Ohio Ohio State Toledo Wright State Xavier...
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  • Bellefontaine, Ohio, originally the home of the A.J. Miller Company, under Divco-Wayne ownership, it was later relocated to Piqua, Ohio, Meteor's old hometown...
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    Robert M. Widney (category People from Piqua, Ohio)
    founders of the University of Southern California (USC). He was born in Piqua, Ohio. He was the older brother of Joseph Widney, second president of USC;...
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    Fort Piqua Plaza is a historic hotel building (Fort Piqua Hotel) renovated for public uses including a library in downtown Piqua, Ohio. It was designed...
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