37c Ohio Statehood Bicentennial single

The Postal Service issued a 37-cent Ohio Statehood commemorative stamp in a pressure- sensitive adhesive pane of twenty on March 1, 2003, in Chillicothe, Ohio. The stamp, designed by Phil Jordan, Falls Church, Virginia, and photographed by Ian Adams, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, went on sale nationwide March 2, 2003.

Comprising land ceded to the United States after the Revolutionary War, the Northwest Territory included present-day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In 1787 Congress enacted a plan to organize and govern this large area. The following year its first permanent settlement was established in Marietta, Ohio. On February 19, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson approved Ohio's constitution, and in March 1803, Ohio became the first state carved from the territory and the seventeenth admitted to the Union. Due to a legislative oversight, Ohio's constitution was formally ratified by Congress 150 years later, on August 7, 1953.

The stamp was printed in offset process, Microprint "USPS". Banknote Corporation of America, Inc., printed 50 million stamps.

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (February 6, 2003).

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