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15. Apr. 2024 · Akron, city, seat (1842) of Summit county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Cuyahoga River, about 40 miles (64 km) south-southeast of Cleveland. Akron is the centre of a metropolitan area that includes the cities of Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge, and Stow and several villages. At 1,081 feet.
- Ohio and Erie Canal | waterway, United States | Britannica
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- History of Akron | Britannica
Akron, City (pop., 2020: 190,469), northeastern Ohio, U.S.,...
- Ohio and Erie Canal | waterway, United States | Britannica
Notable historic events in Akron include the passage of the Akron School Law of 1847, which created the K–12 system; the popularization of the church architectural Akron Plan, the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the Akron Experiment into preventing goiters with iodized salt, the 1983 Supreme Court case City of Akron v.
Diese wird schon bald North Akron genannt, und die ursprüngliche Siedlung heißt entsprechend South Akron. 1836 schließlich werden die beiden Orte zum heutigen Akron zusammengefasst. Als Gründungsdatum der Stadt gilt jedoch das Gründungsjahr der ersten Siedlung, 1825.
History of Akron, Ohio. In 1825, General Simon Perkins, an Ohio Canal commissioner, and a settler named Paul Williams had the foresight to see the advantage of a location at the highest point of the yet-to-be-built Ohio and Erie Canal. They founded a community that they named Akron, from a Greek word meaning "high place."
Akron, an industrial boomtown in the early twentieth century, grewHall Park Allotment Historic District in population nearly fivefold between 1900 and 1920. As the city industrialized, middle class residents sought homes on West Hill, away from the smoke and soot of heavy industry on the East Side. The Hall Park Allotment Historic District in ...
A HISTORY OF AKRON celebrates the City of Akron’s 175th anniversary. Produced for the Summit County Historical Society by Akron attorney and community activist Dave Lieberth, the program takes a new and different look at Akron's past, beginning with its founding on Dec. 6, 1825.
