Akron
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- Names
Akron
Akron City
Summitville
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Cuyahoga river, on watershed between Mississippi River & Great Lakes; laid out by commmissioner of Ohio Canal Fund; grew with completion of Ohio & Erie Canal in 1827 & Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal 1840; home of Goodrich & other rubber companies.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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