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Adams County, Ohio
Adams County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 28,550, which is an increase of 4.5% from 27,330 in 2000. It is named after John Adams, the second President of the United States. Its county seat is West Union.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 586.25 square miles (1,518.4 km2), of which 583.87 square miles (1,512.2 km2) (or 99.59%) is land and 2.38 square miles (6.2 km2) (or 0.41%) is water. It includes many parks and preserves including one of Ohio's greatest archeological wonders, the Serpent Mound at the Serpent Mound State Memorial in Locust Grove, Ohio. Serpent Mound lends its name to the Serpent Mound crater, the eroded remnant of a huge ancient meteorite impact crater.
As of the census of 2000, there were 27,330 people, 10,501 households, and 7,613 families residing in the county. The population density was 47 people per square mile (18/km²). There were 11,822 housing units at an average density of 20 per square mile (8/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.77% White, 0.18% Black or African American, 0.68% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.11% from other races, and 1.10% from two or more races. 0.64% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 38.5% were of American, 19.8% German, 11.7% Irish and 8.9% English ancestry according to Census 2000.
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Akron Art Museum
The Akron Art Museum is an art museum in Akron, Ohio, USA.
The museum first opened its doors on February 1, 1922, as the Akron Art Institute. It was located in two borrowed rooms in the basement of the public library. The Institute offered classes in arts appreciation and has grown considerably since that time, 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of gallery space dedicated to the display of its collection of art produced since 1850. The new museum was open to the public on July 17, 2007, and hosts visiting shows from national and international collections.
1850-1950
Western art created between 1850 and 1950 graces the first floor of the museum’s 1899 Italian Renaissance revival style building. The first two rooms feature examples of turn-of-the-century realism and American impressionism. Two rooms explore modernism and regionalism in northeast Ohio from 1910 through 1950. A final room is dedicated entirely to the work of William Sommer, a northeast Ohio artist. These galleries include paintings by Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Frederick Carl Frieseke.
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Akron, Ohio
Akron /ˈækrən/ is the fifth largest city in Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately 39 miles (63 km) south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area covers Summit and Portage counties, and in 2010 had a population of 703,200. Akron is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2010 had a population of 2,780,440.
Akron was co-founded in 1825 when suggested by Paul Williams to Simon Perkins. In 1833, "South" was temporarily added to the name when Eliakim Crosby settled a bordering North Akron. After Summit County formed from portions of Portage, Medina, and Stark counties in 1840, Akron succeeded Cuyahoga Falls as county seat a year later. The Akron School Law of 1847 created the K-12 system. In 1851, Sojourner Truth attended a convention and extemporaneously delivered the original "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. During the Civil War, Ferdinand Schumacher supplied the Union Army with oats produced by his mill along the Ohio Canal. Between the 1870's and World War I, numerous churches across the nation were built using the Akron Plan.
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All-American Bridge
The All-America Bridge in Akron, Ohio is a viaduct carrying Ohio State Route 261 over the Little Cuyahoga River that splits into a one-way pair. Constructed 1981–1982, the bridge was named in recognition of Akron's past All-America City Awards and is also locally known as the Y-Bridge. The bridge is 134 feet tall in its highest location.
The bridge's predecessor, the 1922 North Hill Viaduct, was closed in 1977 after a collapse killed three.[citation needed] The poem Under The North Hill Viaduct was written by Rita Dove.
Over its existence, the bridge has been the site of at least one suicide a year (police records are incomplete). From 1997 until December 3, 2009, 29 people committed suicide by jumping from the bridge.
In 2009, it was announced that $1 million to $1.5 million would be spent to fence the bridge using federal economic stimulus funds. Fencing the bridge was controversial in Akron and the plan had previously failed to receive local support. Previous local attempts to fence the bridge failed in 1991, 1993, 2000 and 2006. The project was expected to be completed by September 2010 but was stopped for the winter of 2010-2011. The project was finally completed in late December 2011.
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Allen County, Ohio
Allen County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 106,331, which is a decrease of 2.0% from 108,473 in 2000. It is included in the Lima, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Lima–Van Wert–Wapakoneta Combined Statistical Area.
It is named for Colonel John Allen, who was killed leading his men at the Battle of Frenchtown, during the War of 1812. Although it has also been claimed the county was named for Revolutionary War soldier Ethan Allen, the weight of the evidence in favor of John Allen led the General Assembly to declare that the county was named for him. The county seat is Lima.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Greenville signed in 1795, northwestern Ohio was reserved for Native Americans. Thus the area now comprising Allen County was off-limits to European settlement until the Treaty of Maumee Rapids in 1817. Under the terms of this treaty, the Shawnee tribe was assigned reservations at Wapakonetta and at their "Hog Creek" settlement along the Ottawa River which comprised most of what is the present-day Shawnee Township. The latter treaty opened the way for the Ohio Legislature on March 1, 1820 to create fourteen counties, including Allen, which was defined as Ranges 5 through 8 east and Towns 3 through 6 south.
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Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the 64th-largest city and northernmost major city in the United States. With 291,826 residents in 2010 (and 380,821 residents within its Metropolitan Statistical Area, which combines Anchorage with the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough), it is Alaska's largest city and constitutes more than 40 percent of the state's total population; amongst the 50 states, only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in the state's largest city.
Anchorage has been named All-America City four times, in 1956, 1965, 1984/1985 and 2002, by the National Civic League. It has also been named by Kiplinger as the most tax friendly city in the United States.
Russian presence in south central Alaska was well established in the 19th century. In 1867, U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward brokered a deal to purchase Alaska from a debt-ridden Imperial Russia for $7.2 million (about two cents an acre). The deal was lampooned by political rivals as "Seward's folly", "Seward's icebox" and "Walrussia". By 1888, gold was discovered along Turnagain Arm.
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Ashland County, Ohio
Ashland County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States, and was formed in 1846 from parts of Huron, Lorain, Richland and Wayne Counties. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 53,139, which is an increase of 1.2% from 52,523 in 2000. Its county seat is Ashland. It is named for "Ashland", the home of Senator Henry Clay near Lexington, Kentucky.
The Ashland Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Ashland County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 426.80 square miles (1,105.4 km2), of which 422.95 square miles (1,095.4 km2) (or 99.10%) is land and 3.85 square miles (10.0 km2) (or 0.90%) is water.
Ashland County was formed on February 24, 1846 from portions of Huron, Lorain, Richland, and Wayne counties. Like the county seat, it was named after Ashland, the Lexington, Kentucky-area home of Henry Clay, a Kentucky senator.[citation needed]
As of the census of 2000, there were 52,523 people, 19,524 households, and 14,018 families residing in the county. The population density was 124 people per square mile (48/km²). There were 20,832 housing units at an average density of 49 per square mile (19/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.54% White, 0.81% Black or African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.55% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races. 0.65% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 36.8% were of German, 17.3% American, 10.1% English and 8.8% Irish ancestry according to Census 2000. 96.1% spoke English, 1.2% German and 1.0% Spanish as their first language.
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Athens County, Ohio
Athens County is a county located in the southeastern part of the state of Ohio, United States. It was formed in 1805 from Washington County. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 64,757, which is an increase of 4.1% from 62,223 in 2000. Its county seat is Athens. Because the original state university (Ohio University) was founded there in 1804, the town and the county were named for the ancient center of learning, Athens, Greece.
The Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Athens County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 508.44 square miles (1,316.9 km2), of which 503.60 square miles (1,304.3 km2) (or 99.05%) is land and 4.84 square miles (12.5 km2) (or 0.95%) is water.
Athens County is located in the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau region of Ohio. It features steep, rugged hills, with typical relief of 150 to 400 feet, deeply dissected by stream valleys, many of them remnant from the ancient Teays River drainage system. Most of Athens County is within the Hocking River watershed, with smaller areas in the Shade River and Raccoon Creek watersheds. The Hocking River joins the Ohio River at the unincorporated village of Hockingport in Athens County.
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Baltimore
Baltimore (
/ˈbɒltɨmɔr/, colloquially /ˈbɔl.mɔr/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is located in the central area of the state along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. The independent city is often referred to as Baltimore City to distinguish it from surrounding Baltimore County.
Founded in 1729, Baltimore is the largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic United States and is situated closer to Midwestern markets than any other major seaport on the East Coast. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center. After a decline in manufacturing, Baltimore shifted to a service-oriented economy.
At 620,961 residents in 2010, Baltimore's population has decreased by one-third since its peak in 1950. The Baltimore Metropolitan Area has grown steadily to approximately 2.7 million residents in 2010; the 20th largest in the country. Baltimore is also a principal city in the larger Baltimore–Washington combined statistical area of approximately 8.4 million residents.
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Barberton, Ohio
Barberton is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 27,899 at the 2000 census. It is a commuter town close to Akron and is part of the latter's Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.2 square miles (24 km2), of which 9.0 square miles (23 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (2.38%) is water.
Lake Anna, a glacial kettle lake, is a 1-acre (4,000 m2) natural spring lake that lies in the center of the original village of Barberton. It is the center of a 21-acre (85,000 m2) park named after it. Lake Anna is named for O. C. Barber's daughter Anna Laura Barber.
As of the census of 2000, there were 27,899 people, 11,523 households, and 7,443 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,095.2 people per square mile (1,195.5/km²). There were 12,163 housing units at an average density of 1,349.4 per square mile (521.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.43% White, 5.33% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 1.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.64% of the population.
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Beaver, Pennsylvania
Beaver is a borough in and the county seat of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, at the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio Rivers. As of the 2000 census, the borough population was 4,775, having dropped from 5,641 in 1940.
Robert Linn was the mayor of Beaver for 58 years (1946–2004), making him the longest serving mayor in the United States. The borough was the home of influential U. S. Senator "Boss" Quay.
The area around Beaver was originally home to the Shawnee tribe. Later, the Mingo, Lenape, and other displaced groups moved into the area. The area was part of the Ohio Country that was in dispute during the French and Indian War.
Beaver became the site of Fort McIntosh, a Revolutionary War era Patriot frontier fort. After the war, the fort was the home of the First American Regiment, the oldest active unit in the US Army. The fort was abandoned in 1788 and razed a short time later. By then, the frontier had moved westward and there was no further need for a permanent garrison to protect the area.
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Belmont County, Ohio
Belmont County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 70,400, which is an increase of 0.2% from 70,226 in 2000. Its county seat is St. Clairsville. The county takes its name from the French for "beautiful mountain".
In 1976, Belmont County became the first American county to elect a female sheriff, Katherine Crumbly.[1]
In 1987, Michael A Massa, a county resident, created and dedicated the County's first Official Seal and Flag to the people of Belmont County (photo of county seal featured above the county map- see vignette at above right). The citizens of the county held an informal election to select the winning seal and flag, and the event was featured nationally on the Paul Harvey Show.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 541.27 square miles (1,401.9 km2), of which 532.13 square miles (1,378.2 km2) (or 98.31%) is land and 9.14 square miles (23.7 km2) (or 1.69%) is water.
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Bluegrass region
Coordinates: 38°00′N 84°30′W / 38.0°N 84.5°W / 38.0; -84.5
The Bluegrass Region is a geographic region in the state of Kentucky, United States. It occupies the northern part of the state and since European settlement has contained a majority of the state's population and its largest cities. Pre European settlement the region was mostly a savannah with wide grasslands with enormous oak trees periodically placed. It contained large herds of bison and other wildlife, especially near salt licks. The name "Kentucky" itself means "meadow lands" in several different Indian languages and was specifically applied to this region, only becoming a name for the entire state much later. Europeans named the Bluegrass Region for the blue flowered Poa grass that grew there[citation needed].
By 1800 farms began noticing that horses who grazed in the Bluegrass region were more durable than those from other regions - this is due to the high content of calcium in the soil. Within decades the herds of bison would be wiped out and replaced with numerous thoroughbred horse farms. Other forms of agriculture flourished as well, including the cultivation of grapes, hemp, and tobacco. The first commercial winery in the United States was opened in the Bluegrass Region in 1801 in present day Jessamine County by a group of Swiss immigrants.
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Boston
Boston (pronounced /ˈbɒstən/ or locally /ˈbɔstən/ (
listen)) is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper, covering only 48.43 square miles, had a population of 617,594 according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded the city on the Shawmut Peninsula. During the late 18th century, Boston was the location of several major events during the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the peninsula. After American independence was attained Boston became a major shipping port and manufacturing center, and its rich history now helps attract many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone attracting over 20 million every year. The city was the site of several firsts, including America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and the first subway system in the United States (1897).
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Boston Heights, Ohio
Boston Heights is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,186 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Boston Heights is located at 41°15′21″N 81°30′16″W / 41.25583°N 81.50444°W / 41.25583; -81.50444 (41.255714, -81.504398).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 6.9 square miles (18 km2), of which, 6.9 square miles (18 km2) of it is land and 0.14% is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,186 people, 392 households, and 323 families residing in the village. The population density was 171.9 people per square mile (66.4/km²). There were 407 housing units at an average density of 59.0 per square mile (22.8/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 96.71% White, 0.59% African American, 1.52% Asian, 0.42% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.10% of the population.
There were 392 households out of which 46.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.3% were married couples living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.6% were non-families. 14.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.03 and the average family size was 3.38.
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Brown County, Ohio
Brown County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 44,846, which is an increase of 6.1% from 42,285 in 2000. The county seat is Georgetown. It is named for Major General Jacob Brown, an officer in the War of 1812 who was wounded at the Battle of Lundy's Lane.
Brown County is part of the Cincinnati–Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 493.45 square miles (1,278.0 km2), of which 490.02 square miles (1,269.1 km2) (or 99.30%) is land and 3.44 square miles (8.9 km2) (or 0.70%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 42,285 people, 15,555 households, and 11,790 families residing in the county. The population density was 86 people per square mile (33/km²). There were 17,193 housing units at an average density of 35 per square mile (14/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.08% White, 0.92% Black or African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.08% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. 0.44% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 29.5% were of American, 28.2% German, 10.7% English and 10.2% Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.
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Butler County, Ohio
Butler County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 368,130, which is an increase of 10.6% from 332,807 in 2000. Its county seat is Hamilton. It is named for General Richard Butler, who died in 1791 fighting Indians in northern Ohio. Butler's army marched out of Fort Hamilton, where the city of Hamilton now stands. It is also home to Miami University, an Ohio public university.
Butler County is part of the Cincinnati–Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Butler County was formed on March 24, 1803 from portions of Hamilton County. It is named for Richard Butler, a general in the American Revolutionary War.
The following is provided at the Butler County Commissioners Website MEETINGS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
The Board of Butler County Commissioners will meet in the Commission Chambers, Second Floor, Butler County Government Services Center, 315 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio on Mondays and Thursdays of each week starting at 9:30 A.M. The commissioners are: Charles R. Furmon, Donald L. Dixon and Cindy Carpenter.
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Canton, Ohio
Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately 24 miles (39 km) south of Akron and 60 miles (97 km) south of Cleveland.
The City of Canton is the largest incorporated area in the Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the Canton-Massillon metropolitan area, which includes all of Stark and Carroll counties, had a population of 404,422 .
Founded in 1805 on the West and Middle Branches of the Nimishillen Creek, Canton became a manufacturing center because of its numerous railroad lines. After the decline of heavy manufacturing, the city's industry diversified into service economy, including retailing, education, finance, and healthcare.
According to the 2010 census, Canton's population declined 9.7%, down to 73,007 residents. Despite this decline, the 2010 figure actually had moved Canton up from 9th to 8th place among Ohio cities, as nearby Youngstown in neighboring Mahoning County, once considerably more populous than Canton, had suffered a larger decline.
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Carroll County, Ohio
Carroll County is a county located in the state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 28,836, the same as in 2000. Its county seat is Carrollton. It is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Carroll County is part of the Canton–Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Carroll County is in the Appalachian Ohio region of the state.
Carroll County was formed on December 25, 1832 from portions of Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Stark, and Tuscarawas counties.
Carroll County lies upon an ancient trail known as the Great Trail, connecting the forks of the Ohio with Lake Erie and the inland plains.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 398.93 square miles (1,033.2 km2), of which 394.61 square miles (1,022.0 km2) (or 98.92%) is land and 4.32 square miles (11.2 km2) (or 1.08%) is water. It is the 4th smallest county in Ohio in land area and smallest in total area.
As of the census of 2000, there were 28,836 people, 11,126 households, and 8,155 families residing in the county. The population density was 73 people per square mile (28/km²). There were 13,016 housing units at an average density of 33 per square mile (13/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.20% White, 0.54% Black or African American, 0.32% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. 0.55% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 30.1% were of German, 13.5% American, 13.3% Irish, 9.8% English and 6.6% Italian ancestry according to Census 2000.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati (pronounced /sɪnsɨˈnæti/) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. Settled in 1788, the city is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits was 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's third-largest city. According to the 2011 Census Bureau estimate, the Cincinnati metropolitan area had a population of 2,138,038, the 27th most populous Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the United States, and the most populous in Ohio. Residents of Cincinnati are called Cincinnatians.
In the early 19th century, Cincinnati was the first American boomtown in the heart of the country to rival the larger coastal cities in size and wealth. As the first major inland city in the country, it is sometimes thought of as the first purely American city. It developed initially without as much recent European immigration or influence as took place in eastern cities. However, by the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads, Cincinnati's growth had slowed considerably and the city became surpassed in population and prominence by another inland city, Chicago.
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Clark County, Ohio
Clark County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 138,333, which is a decrease of 4.4% from 144,742 in 2000. It is included in the Springfield, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The county was created on March 1, 1818, and was named for General George Rogers Clark, a hero of the American Revolution. Its county seat is Springfield.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 402.53 square miles (1,042.5 km2), of which 397.47 square miles (1,029.4 km2) (or 98.74%) is land and 5.05 square miles (13.1 km2) (or 1.25%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 144,742 people, 56,648 households, and 39,370 families residing in the county. The population density was 362 people per square mile (140/km²). There were 61,056 housing units at an average density of 153 per square mile (59/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 88.12% White, 8.95% Black or African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.53% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.53% from other races, and 1.58% from two or more races. 1.17% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 23.8% were of German, 21.6% American, 10.4% Irish and 8.7% English ancestry according to Census 2000.
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Cleveland
Cleveland ( /ˈkliːvlənd/) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location on the lake shore, as well as being connected to numerous canals and railroad lines. Cleveland's economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and biomedical. Cleveland is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
As of the 2010 Census, the city proper had a total population of 396,815 and was the 45th largest city in the United States, and the second largest city in Ohio. It is the center of Greater Cleveland, the largest metropolitan area in Ohio. The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2011 ranked as the 28th largest in the United States with 2,068,283 people. Cleveland is part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2011 had a population of 2,871,084, and ranked as the country's 15th largest.
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Clinton County, Ohio
Clinton County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 42,040, which is an increase of 3.7% from 40,543 in 2000. The 2008 Census Population Estimate places the figure at 43,200. It is named for former U.S. Vice-President George Clinton. The county seat is Wilmington.
The Wilmington Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Clinton County.
Clinton County was formed on February 19, 1810 from sections of Highland County and Warren County. It was named after George Clinton, a soldier, politician, Governor of New York, and Vice President of the United States. According to The Descendants of William Sabin, compiled by Gordon Alan Morris, Thomas J. Prittie, and Dixie Prittie, the first Caucasian child born in the county was Mary Stuart Sabin, daughter of Dr. Warren Sabin, c. 1812.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 412.29 square miles (1,067.8 km2), of which 408.68 square miles (1,058.5 km2) (or 99.12%) is land and 3.61 square miles (9.3 km2) (or 0.88%) is water.
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Clinton, Ohio
Clinton is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,337 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Clinton was formerly known as Warwick, and that name is still used for the rail junction.
The village was laid out in 1816. Growth accelerated upon the arrival of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The arrival of the railroad in the 1880s, put the canal, which was then in need of costly repairs, out of business. A major flood in 1913 required that the remaining canal locks be destroyed.
Clinton is located at 40°55′24″N 81°37′59″W / 40.92333°N 81.63306°W / 40.92333; -81.63306 (40.923388, -81.633088), along the Tuscarawas River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2), of which, 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (2.47%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,337 people, 496 households, and 380 families residing in the village. The population density was 376.2 people per square mile (145.4/km²). There were 528 housing units at an average density of 148.6 per square mile (57.4/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 97.68% White, 0.37% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.45% Asian, 0.22% from other races, and 1.12% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.37% of the population.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the sixteenth largest city in the United States of America. It is the county seat of Franklin County, yet the city has expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County and Fairfield County. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. The city has a diverse economy based on education, government, insurance, banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, clothes, logistics, steel, energy, medical research, health care, hospitality, retail, and technology. Modern Columbus has emerged as a technologically sophisticated city. It is home to the world's largest private research and development foundation, the Battelle Memorial Institute; CAS, or Chemical Abstracts Service, the world's largest clearinghouse of chemical information; NetJets, the world's largest fractional ownership jet aircraft fleet; and The Ohio State University, the nation's largest campus.
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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Cuyahoga Falls is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 49,652. It is currently the second largest city in Summit County. It is a suburb of Akron and Cleveland and part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area. Actually older than Akron, the city was founded in 1812 by William Wetmore and was originally named Manchester. Cuyahoga Falls is named after the Cuyahoga River (which flows into Lake Erie) and the series of waterfalls that run along the southern boundary of the city.
Cuyahoga Falls is bordered by Akron to the south and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to the northwest.
Cuyahoga Falls was formed in 1812 near the junction of what was then Northampton, Stow, Tallmadge, and Portage townships. The focus was the series of Cuyahoga River waterfalls that provided power for manufacturing.
In 1812 Kelsey and Wilcox built a dam on the Cuyahoga River at a place where a railroad bridge crossed it in 1876. They then built a flour mill, an oil mill, and a saw mill. This led to the construction of a number of houses. This area was known as the old village. Development moved downstream, though, when it was discovered that the power was better there. The old village was eventually destroyed in 1826 when a dam built by William Wetmore flooded the dam at the old village and its mills were torn down.
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Darke County, Ohio
Darke County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 52,959, which is a decrease of 0.7% from 53,309 in 2000. Its county seat is Greenville and is named for William Darke, an officer in the Revolution.
The Greenville Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Darke County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 599.76 square miles (1,553.4 km2), of which 598.10 square miles (1,549.1 km2) (or 99.72%) is land and 1.66 square miles (4.3 km2) (or 0.28%) is water.
Darke County, Ohio, is one of the few counties in the United States to border eight other counties.
As of the census of 2000, there were 53,309 people, 20,419 households, and 14,905 families residing in the county. The population density was 89 people per square mile (34/km²). There were 21,583 housing units at an average density of 36 per square mile (14/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.09% White, 0.39% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more races. 0.86% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 43.1% were of German, 20.1% American, 8.1% English, 6.8% Irish and 5.8% French ancestry according to Census 2000.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton ( /ˈdeɪtn/) is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Montgomery County. At the 2010 census, the population was 141,527; the Dayton metropolitan area had 841,502 residents, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Ohio and the 61st largest in the United States. The Dayton-Springfield-Greenville Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,072,891 in 2010 and is the 43rd largest in the United States. Dayton is situated within the Miami Valley region of Ohio just north of the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.
Ohio's borders are within 500 miles (805 km) of roughly 60% of the country's population and manufacturing infrastructure making the Dayton area a logistical centroid for manufacturers, suppliers, and shippers. Dayton also plays host to significant research and development in fields like industrial, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering that have led to many technological innovations. Much of this innovation is due in part to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its place within the community. With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Dayton's businesses have diversified into a service economy that includes insurance and legal sectors as well as healthcare and government sectors.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines
i/dɨˈmɔɪn/ is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. It is named after the Des Moines River, which may have been adapted from the French Rivière des Moines, literally meaning "River of the Monks." The five-county metropolitan area is ranked 88th in terms of population in the United States with 569,633 residents according to the 2010 count by the United States Census Bureau. The city proper population was 203,433 at the 2010 census.
Des Moines is a major center for the insurance industry and also has a sizable financial services and publishing business base. In fact, Des Moines was credited with the "number one spot for U.S. insurance companies" in a Business Wire article. The city is the headquarters for the Principal Financial Group, Aviva insurance (West Des Moines) the Meredith Corporation, Ruan Transportation, EMC Insurance Companies, and Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. Other major corporations such as Wells Fargo, ING Group, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Marsh, Monsanto and Pioneer Hi-Bred have large operations in or near the metro area. Forbes magazine ranked Des Moines as the "Best Place for Business" in 2010 and, in 2011, ranked the city #1 among "America's Best Cities for Young Professionals."Kiplinger's Personal Finance 2008 Best Cities List featured Des Moines as #9. In November 2011, the city of Des Moines was listed as the #1 Greenest city for Women by Self Magazine.
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Edinburg, Texas
Edinburg is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 77,100 at the 2010 census. The University of Texas–Pan American, the only fully accredited four-year university in the Rio Grande Valley, is located in Edinburg.
Edinburg is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.
In 1908, John Closner, William Briggs, Argyle McAllen, Plutarco de la Viña and Dennis B. Chapin developed a new community (the town square of which is now located at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 281 and State Highway 107). The town was named Chapin in honor of one of the developers. It became the county seat of Hidalgo County in a dramatic, nighttime covert operation in which the county records were removed from the previous county seat, Hidalgo, Texas. When Dennis Chapin was involved in the shooting death of Oscar J. Rountree at the Dan Breen Saloon in San Antonio, Texas, the community changed its name to Edinburg to honor John Young, a prominent businessman who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. The town was incorporated in 1919.
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Elyria
Elyria is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Lorain County. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio at the forks of the Black River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 54,533. The city is named for its founder, Heman Ely. The city is home to Lorain County Community College.
Elyria was founded in 1817 by Heman Ely, who built a log house, dam, gristmill, and sawmill on the site. Ely began to build more houses to accommodate immigrating settlers. By the time Ely died in 1852, Elyria had 5 churches, 3 grocery stores, 3 flour mills, a newspaper, and a population of more than 1,500. Early postal service from Cleveland was provided by rider Artemis Beebe, who held the first contract to deliver mail across the Black River. As the 1900s arrived, Elyria was a small town of about 8,000. In 1908, Elyria Memorial Hospital was built and has since evolved into an award-winning regional healthcare system. In August 1967, at the peak of Elyria's population, Midway Mall was opened and changed the face of the local economy as local businesses either moved into the mall or closed down. [2] In the August 1975, interracial tensions between blacks and whites erupted in a riot that resulted in broad vandalism and burnt buildings and shops particularly in the southern and western portions of the town, finally brought under control by State Guard troops. Meanwhile, 3 major car plant closings in the area lead to economic stagnation and joblessness in the 1970s and 80s that affected communities throughout the region, later referred to as "the rustbelt." A minor and only temporary revival of Elyria in the 1990s saw the addition of some new roads and housing in Elyria, now serving more as a residential "bedroom community" for Cleveland as new industries are being attracted in.
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Elyria, Ohio
Elyria is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Lorain County. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio at the forks of the Black River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 54,533. The city is named for its founder, Heman Ely. The city is home to Lorain County Community College.
Elyria was founded in 1817 by Heman Ely, who built a log house, dam, gristmill, and sawmill on the site. Ely began to build more houses to accommodate immigrating settlers. By the time Ely died in 1852, Elyria had 5 churches, 3 grocery stores, 3 flour mills, a newspaper, and a population of more than 1,500. Early postal service from Cleveland was provided by rider Artemis Beebe, who held the first contract to deliver mail across the Black River. As the 1900s arrived, Elyria was a small town of about 8,000. In 1908, Elyria Memorial Hospital was built and has since evolved into an award-winning regional healthcare system. In August 1967, at the peak of Elyria's population, Midway Mall was opened and changed the face of the local economy as local businesses either moved into the mall or closed down. [2] In the August 1975, interracial tensions between blacks and whites erupted in a riot that resulted in broad vandalism and burnt buildings and shops particularly in the southern and western portions of the town, finally brought under control by State Guard troops. Meanwhile, 3 major car plant closings in the area lead to economic stagnation and joblessness in the 1970s and 80s that affected communities throughout the region, later referred to as "the rustbelt." A minor and only temporary revival of Elyria in the 1990s saw the addition of some new roads and housing in Elyria, now serving more as a residential "bedroom community" for Cleveland as new industries are being attracted in.
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Erie County, Ohio
Erie County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 77,079, which is a decrease of 3.1% from 79,551 in 2000. Its county seat is Sandusky and is named for the Erie (tribe), whose name was their word for "wildcat". It is home to the amusement park Cedar Point. It was formed in 1838 from the northern third of Huron County, and a portion of Sandusky County. It is part of the Sandusky Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Erie County.
Erie County was designated a Metropolitan Statistical Area with Sandusky as its principal city in 2003.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 625.99 square miles (1,621.3 km2), of which 251.56 square miles (651.5 km2) (or 40.19%) is land and 374.43 square miles (969.8 km2) (or 59.81%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 79,551 people, 31,727 households, and 21,764 families residing in the county. The population density was 312 people per square mile (121/km²). There were 35,909 housing units at an average density of 141 per square mile (54/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 88.64% White, 8.64% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.53% from other races, and 1.60% from two or more races. 2.09% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 35.7% were of German, 9.2% Irish, 8.2% English, 8.1% Italian and 7.8% American ancestry according to Census 2000.
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Euclid, Ohio
Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area, and borders Cleveland. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 48,920. In 2009, Euclid celebrated its bicentennial.
The city was named after Euclid, the Greek mathematician.
Euclid is located at 41°35′44″N 81°31′9″W / 41.59556°N 81.51917°W / 41.59556; -81.51917 (41.595563, -81.519176).
According to the United States Census Bureau, Euclid has a total area of 11.6 square miles (30 km2), of which 10.7 square miles (28 km2) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), or 7.43%, is water. It is directly on Lake Erie, so it contains an area of beach front along its north edge.
Bordering Euclid are Cleveland on the west, South Euclid and Richmond Heights on the south, Willowick, Wickliffe, and Willoughby Hills on the east, and Lake Erie on the north.
It is part of the Lake Erie Snowbelt region, prone to heavy wind-whipped snow squalls blowing off Lake Erie, particularly before the lake freezes over in winter.
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Fairlawn, Ohio
Fairlawn is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. A suburb of Akron, its population was 7,307 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Fairlawn is located at 41°7′46″N 81°37′5″W / 41.12944°N 81.61806°W / 41.12944; -81.61806 (41.129555, -81.618103).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.4 square miles (11 km2), of which, 4.4 square miles (11 km2) of it is land and 0.23% is water.
Fairlawn was founded as a hamlet in 1891 when the Northern Ohio Railroad was built. As of 1908 it had a mill, general store, a blacksmith, and other businesses. It was incorporated as Fairlawn Village in 1958. It became a city when its population reached 6,200 in the 1970 census. (Fairlawn, 2003)
As of the census of 2000, there were 7,307 people, 2,986 households, and 1,976 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,649.7 people per square mile (636.9/km²). There were 3,141 housing units at an average density of 709.1 per square mile (273.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 88.81% White, 6.12% African American, 0.07% Native American, 3.30% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.44% from other races, and 1.26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.08% of the population.
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Fayette County, Ohio
Fayette County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 29,030, which is an increase of 2.1% from 28,433 in 2000. Its county seat is Washington Court House. It was named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman who was an officer in the American Army in the Revolution, when established on March 1, 1810.
The Washington Court House Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Fayette County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 407.02 square miles (1,054.2 km2), of which 406.36 square miles (1,052.5 km2) (or 99.84%) is land and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2) (or 0.16%) is water.
Fayette County was formed on March 1, 1810 from portions of Highland County and Ross County. It was named after Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, a French general and politician who took the side of the Colonials during the American Revolutionary War and who played an important role in the French Revolution.[citation needed]
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Firestone Stadium
Firestone Stadium is a historic baseball and softball stadium located in Akron, Ohio, United States.
The stadium was dedicated on July 25, 1925 by Harvey Firestone, the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. It was owned and operated by the Firestone company until it was donated to the City of Akron in 1988.
It is currently the home of the Akron Racers of the National Pro Fastpitch softball league. It has also served as host to the Mid-American Conference Softball tournament on several occasions, from 2002-2005 and again in 2008 and 2009, as well as both 2011 and 2012.
Coordinates: 41°02′31″N 81°31′43″W / 41.041816°N 81.528599°W / 41.041816; -81.528599
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FirstMerit Tower
FirstMerit Tower, also known as the First National Bank Building or the First Central Trust Building, is a skyscraper in Akron, Ohio that has remained the tallest building in that city since its completion in 1931. The building is art deco in style and is covered in glazed architectural terra-cotta. It sits at the corner of South Main Street and East Mill Street. It rises 27 stories to a height of 330 feet (100 m). It is the centerpiece of downtown Akron. The building headquarters the eponymous FirstMerit Corp. and others. The lobby is built with Tennessee marble, white brick, and terra cotta, and features a large banking hall with arched windows. The tower was built on the former site of the Hamilton Building, completed in 1900 in the neo-gothic style. Near the turn of the millennium the tower was given a $2.5 million facelift, including a $1.8 million restoration of the tower's terra-cotta, brick and limestone. The painstaking process involved the removal of some 450 blocks weighing up to 75 pounds each for cleaning and reassembly. Over 1,100 other pieces of the masonry and tilework were repaired on site. In 2007, the tower was again undergoing a restoration. Completed by Cleveland-based VIP Restorations, it includes repointing of all masonry and terra-cotta joints, repairs to the windows, structural restoration, and a restoration of the 13th floor parapet. VIP Restorations also helped to get the building placed within the Nation Register of Historic Places upon the completion of the project.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
Coordinates: 41°4′49.62″N 85°8′20.94″W / 41.08045°N 85.13915°W / 41.08045; -85.13915
Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana. The municipality is located in northeastern Indiana, approximately 18 miles (29 km) west of the Ohio border and 50 miles (80 km) south of the Michigan border.
Fort Wayne is the principal city of the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that encompasses Allen, Wells, and Whitley counties, for an estimated population of 419,453. In addition to those three counties, the Fort Wayne–Huntington–Auburn CSA, a combined statistical area, includes Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, and Noble counties, for a population of 615,077.
Under the direction of American Revolutionary War statesman General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, the United States Army built Fort Wayne last in a series of forts near the Miami Indian village of Kekionga in 1794. Named in Wayne's honor, Fort Wayne established itself at the confluence of the St. Joseph River, St. Marys River, and Maumee River as a trading post for European settlers. The village was platted in 1823 and experienced tremendous growth after completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
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Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly 300 square miles (780 km2) in Tarrant, Denton, and Wise counties, serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2010 Census, Fort Worth had a population of 741,206. It has been estimated that by 2030 it will have 1,211,665 residents. The city is the second most populous in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
The city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city.
Major General William Jenkins Worth (1794–1849) was second in command to General Zachary Taylor at the opening of the Mexican–American War in 1846. After the war, Worth was placed in command of the Department of Texas in 1849. In January 1849 Worth proposed a line of ten forts to mark the western Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River. One month later Worth died from cholera. General William S. Harney assumed command of the Department of Texas and ordered Major Ripley A. Arnold to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork. On June 6, 1849, Arnold established a camp on the bank of the Trinity River and named the post Camp Worth in honor of the late General Worth. In August 1849 Arnold moved the camp to the north-facing bluff which overlooked the mouth of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River.
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Fulton County, Ohio
Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 42,698, which is an increase of 1.5% from 42,084 in 2000. Its county seat is Wauseon. Fulton County is named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
Fulton County is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 407.23 square miles (1,054.7 km2), of which 405.44 square miles (1,050.1 km2) (or 99.56%) is land and 1.78 square miles (4.6 km2) (or 0.44%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 42,084 people, 15,480 households, and 11,687 families residing in the county. The population density was 104 people per square mile (40/km²). There were 16,232 housing units at an average density of 40 per square mile (15/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.65% White, 0.24% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 2.31% from other races, and 1.08% from two or more races. 5.76% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Gallia County, Ohio
Gallia County (pronunciation: GAL-yuh) is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 30,934, which is a decrease of 0.4% from 31,069 in 2000. Its county seat is Gallipolis. Its name is the Latin word for "France", so called because many immigrants from that country settled here.
Gallia County is part of the Point Pleasant, WV-OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 471.20 square miles (1,220.4 km2), of which 466.53 square miles (1,208.3 km2) (or 99.01%) is land and 4.67 square miles (12.1 km2) (or 0.99%) is water.
Gallia County was formed on March 25, 1803 from portions of Adams and Washington counties. Its name is derived from the Latin word for "France."[citation needed]
As of the census of 2000, there were 31,069 people, 12,060 households, and 8,586 families residing in the county. The population density was 66 people per square mile (26/km²). There were 13,498 housing units at an average density of 29 per square mile (11/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.26% White, 2.70% Black or African American, 0.43% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.15% from other races, and 1.11% from two or more races. 0.61% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Geauga County, Ohio
Geauga County ( /dʒiːˈɑːɡə/ jee-AH-gə) is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 93,389, which is an increase of 2.7% from 90,895 in 2000. It is named for a Native American word meaning "raccoon". The county seat is Chardon. In 2008, Forbes Magazine ranked Geauga County as the fourth best place in America to raise a family.
Geauga County is part of the Cleveland–Elyria–Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geauga County was founded on March 1, 1806 as the second county in the Connecticut Western Reserve, originating from Trumbull County, Ohio. Geauga County is named after the Native American word "Sheauga" meaning "raccoon. In 1808, the size of Geauga County was reduced by the creation of Ashtabula County and Cuyahoga County.
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Ghent, Ohio
Ghent ( /ˈdʒɛnt/) is an unincorporated hamlet in central Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, United States. It lies in the area of Granger and Cleveland-Massillon Roads just north of the Ghent Road exit of Interstate 77. It is included in the Montrose-Ghent census-designated place. It has a number of local businesses such a gas station, restaurants, a bakery, a dentist office.
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Greater Cleveland
The Cleveland metropolitan area, or Greater Cleveland as it is more commonly known, is the metropolitan area of Northeast Ohio that contains Cleveland, Ohio, United States and its surrounding area. According to the 2010 Census, the five-county Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consists of Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Lake County, Lorain County, and Medina County, and has a population of 2,077,240. Greater Cleveland is the largest metropolitan area in Ohio.
Northeast Ohio refers to a similar but substantially larger area. This article covers the area generally considered to be Greater Cleveland, but includes some information generally applicable to the larger region, which is itself part of what is known historically as the Connecticut Western Reserve.
The larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area is the 14th-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States, and includes the above counties plus Ashtabula County, Portage County and Summit County, with a population of 2,881,937.
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Green, Ohio
Green is a suburban city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 25,699 at the 2010 census. It is located almost exactly midway between the cities of Akron and Canton, although it is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Green Township was first created in 1809 as part of Stark County, Ohio. Green Township became part of Summit County, Ohio after that county's establishment in 1840. Green had several unincorporated hamlets, most notably Greensburg. The City of Green was declared a City in 1992. A three square mile section in the center of the township became the Village of Green in 1988. Voters approved the merger of the Village with the rest of the township in 1991. In 1992, it became the City of Green. Fred Ravagnani was elected the first mayor of the Village of Green. John Torok was the first mayor of the City of Green.
The city has no unique postal ZIP code; it is served by the Green post office, but only post office boxes are served by this ZIP code (44232); no street addresses in Green have this ZIP code. Green street addresses are served by 5 different post offices, covering different parts of the city:
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Greene County, Ohio
Greene County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 161,573, which is an increase of 9.3% from 147,886 in 2000. Its county seat is Xenia, and it was named for General Nathanael Greene, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Greene County was established on March 24, 1803.
Greene County is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 416.26 square miles (1,078.1 km2), of which 413.73 square miles (1,071.6 km2) (or 99.39%) is land and 2.53 square miles (6.6 km2) (or 0.61%) is water.
As of the census of 2010, there were 161,573 people, 61,825 households, and 39,160 families residing in the county. The population density was 356 people per square mile (138/km²). There were 58,224 housing units at an average density of 140 per square mile (54/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 86.4% White, 7.2% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 2.9% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.38% from other races, and 1.66% from two or more races. 1.23% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Hamilton, Ohio
Hamilton is a city in Butler County, southwestern Ohio, United States. The population was 62,447 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Butler County. The city is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, and includes the historic neighborhood of Lindenwald. The city's mayor is Patrick Moeller and the City Manager is Joshua Smith. Most of the city is in the Hamilton City School District.
The industrial city is seeking to revitalize itself through the arts and was officially declared the "City of Sculpture". It has brought many sculpture installations to the city and founded the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park.
Hamilton, Ohio, was founded by European Americans in 1791 as Fort Hamilton (named to honor Alexander Hamilton). It was a frontier military fort intended primarily as a supply station for the troops of generals Arthur St. Clair and later Anthony Wayne. Their armies entered the Miami Valley wilderness to drive out the Shawnee and Miami during the Northwest Indian War. The Indians hoped to maintain their territory here, and, following the American Revolutinary War, the United States wanted to open it for American settlement.
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Hancock County, Ohio
Hancock County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 74,782, which is an increase of 4.9% from 71,295 in 2000. Its county seat is Findlay and was named for John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Hancock County area has a strong connection with the Toledo Metropolitan Area and upon other opinions, it is sometimes considered part of the metropolitan area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 533.66 square miles (1,382.2 km2), of which 531.36 square miles (1,376.2 km2) (or 99.57%) is land and 2.30 square miles (6.0 km2) (or 0.43%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 71,295 people, 27,898 households, and 19,138 families residing in the county. The population density was 134 people per square mile (52/km²). There were 29,785 housing units at an average density of 56 per square mile (22/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.14% White, 1.11% Black or African American, 0.18% Native American, 1.22% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.22% from other races, and 1.12% from two or more races. 3.07% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Hardin County, Ohio
Hardin County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 32,058, which is an increase of 0.4% from 31,945 in 2000. Its county seat is Kenton and is named for John Hardin, an officer in the American Revolution.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 470.65 square miles (1,219.0 km2), of which 470.40 square miles (1,218.3 km2) (or 99.95%) is land and 0.24 square miles (0.62 km2) (or 0.05%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 31,945 people, 11,963 households, and 8,134 families residing in the county. The population density was 68 people per square mile (26/km²). There were 12,907 housing units at an average density of 27 per square mile (11/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.54% White, 0.70% Black or African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.23% from other races, and 0.85% from two or more races. 0.78% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 96.9% spoke English and 1.4% German as their first language.
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Henry County, Ohio
Henry County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 28,215, which is a decrease of 3.4% from 29,210 in 2000. Its county seat is Napoleon and is named for Patrick Henry, the Virginian famous for his "give me liberty or give me death" speech.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 419.75 square miles (1,087.1 km2), of which 416.01 square miles (1,077.5 km2) (or 99.11%) is land and 3.74 square miles (9.7 km2) (or 0.89%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 29,210 people, 10,935 households, and 7,960 families residing in the county. The population density was 70 people per square mile (27/km²). There were 11,622 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile (11/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.33% White, 0.58% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 2.56% from other races, and 0.85% from two or more races. 5.40% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 94.3% spoke English, 3.7% Spanish and 1.7% German as their first language.
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Hocking County, Ohio
Hocking County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 29,380, which is an increase of 4.0% from 28,241 in 2000. Its county seat is Logan. Its name is from the Hocking River, the origins of which are disputed but is said to be a Delaware Indian word meaning "bottle river".
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 423.63 square miles (1,097.2 km2), of which 421.32 square miles (1,091.2 km2) (or 99.45%) is land and 2.30 square miles (6.0 km2) (or 0.54%) is water.
The major waterway of Hocking County is the Hocking River, which flows roughly from WNW to ESE, arising in Fairfield County and flowing from Hocking County into Athens County. This river drains about half the county. To the southwest, much of the rest of the county is drained by Salt Creek, which flows from there into Vinton County. A small part of the southeastern county is drained by Raccoon Creek, which also flows into Vinton County. The easternmost area of the county is within the Monday Creek watershed. A small area in the north of the county is drained by Rush Creek.
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Holmes County, Ohio
Holmes County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 42,366, which is an increase of 8.8% from 38,943 in 2000. It was formed in 1824 from portions of Coshocton, Tuscarawas and Wayne counties and organized the following year. The county was named after Andrew Holmes, an officer killed in the War of 1812. Its county seat is Millersburg. Holmes County is home to the world's largest population of Amish residents, which draw many visitors to the county, thus making tourism an important sector of the local economy.
According to the United States Census Bureau, According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 423.98 square miles (1,098.1 km2), of which 422.53 square miles (1,094.3 km2) (or 99.66%) is land and 1.45 square miles (3.8 km2) (or 0.34%) is water.
Holmes County was formed on January 20, 1824 from portions of Coshocton, Tuscarawas and Wayne Counties. It was named after Andrew Holmes, an officer in the War of 1812. During the Civil War, small-scale riots broke out in ethnic German areas. Holmes County was an isolated localistic areas dominated by Pennsylvania Dutch and some recent German immigrants. It was a Democratic stronghold and few men dared speak out in favor of conscription. Local politicians denounced Lincoln and Congress as despotic, seeing the draft law as a violation of their local autonomy. In June 1863, small scale disturbance broke out; they ended when the Army send in armed units.
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Hudson, Ohio
Coordinates: 41°14′23″N 81°26′27″W / 41.2398397°N 81.4407840°W / 41.2398397; -81.4407840
Hudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,262 at the 2010 census. It is an affluent exurban community and is part of the Akron, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area.
The city is named after its founder, David Hudson, who settled there from Goshen, Connecticut in 1799, when it was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve.
The Underground Railroad passed through Hudson, and the town was the childhood home of John Brown after his family moved there in 1805.
James Ellsworth and his wealth helped modernize Hudson in the early twentieth century. His son, Lincoln Ellsworth, was a polar explorer, and also the only Hudsonite ever featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
Dante Lavelli, a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, played for Hudson High School's football team.
Ian Frazier, an author and contributor to The New Yorker, is a Western Reserve Academy graduate and Hudsonite.
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Huron County, Ohio
Huron County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 59,626, which is an increase of 0.2% from 59,487 in 2000. Its county seat is Norwalk. The Norwalk Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Huron County.
The county was named in honor of the Huron Indians who once lived in the Great Lakes region. The word "Huron" may be French, although this origin is disputed. The county lies in the former Connecticut Western Reserve and more specifically, in a subregion called the Firelands.
At formation, Huron County consisted of all the Firelands. Sections in the north now belong to Erie and Ottawa Counties, while a township in the south is now part of Ashland County.[citation needed]
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 494.82 square miles (1,281.6 km2), of which 491.50 square miles (1,273.0 km2) (or 99.33%) is land and 3.33 square miles (8.6 km2) (or 0.67%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 59,487 people, 22,307 households, and 16,217 families residing in the county. The population density was 121 people per square mile (47/km²). There were 23,594 housing units at an average density of 48 per square mile (18/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.98% White, 0.97% Black or African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 1.63% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. 3.56% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Jackson County, Ohio
Jackson County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 33,225, which is an increase of 1.8% from 32,641 in 2000. Its county seat is Jackson and is named for Andrew Jackson, a hero of the War of 1812 who was subsequently elected President of the United States.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 421.53 square miles (1,091.8 km2), of which 420.30 square miles (1,088.6 km2) (or 99.71%) is land and 1.23 square miles (3.2 km2) (or 0.29%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 32,641 people, 12,619 households, and 9,136 families residing in the county. The population density was 78 people per square mile (30/km²). There were 13,909 housing units at an average density of 33 per square mile (13/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.89% White, 0.59% Black or African American, 0.34% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.16% from other races, and 0.82% from two or more races. 0.60% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Kettering, Ohio
Kettering is a city in Greene and Montgomery Counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a suburb of nearby Dayton. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,163. It's the largest suburb in the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city incorporated in 1955 from the former Van Buren Township and is named for inventor Charles F. Kettering, who resided here in his home, Ridgeleigh Terrace, from 1914 until his death in 1958.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.7 square miles (48.4 km²), all land.
Although the city is located in both Greene and Montgomery counties, only a very small part of the city lies in Greene County. The city is bordered by Dayton, Riverside, and Oakwood to the north; West Carrollton and Moraine to the west; Centerville and Washington Township to the south; and Beavercreek and Sugarcreek Township to the east.
As of the census of 2000, there were 57,502 people, 25,657 households, and 15,727 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,077.4 people per square mile (1,187.9/km²). There were 26,936 housing units at an average density of 1,441.6 per square mile (556.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 95.23% White, 1.66% African American, 0.18% Native American, 1.38% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.33% from other races, and 1.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.11% of the population.
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Kiryat Ekron
Kiryat Ekron or Qiryath Eqron is an Israeli town located on the coastal plain in the Central Region of Israel. Kiryat Ekron is named after the biblical Ekron, a major Philistine city that once existed at nearby Tel Mikne.
Kiryat Ekron was founded in 1948, as Kfar Ekron, at the site of the Arab village Aqir, that was destroyed during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. After the war, new immigrants from Bulgaria and Yemen settled in the remaining houses. In November 1948, two ma'abarot were established on the village's lands; the Aqir ma'abara, and the Givat Brenner ma'abara. In 1953, the Aqir ma'abara was officially made part of Kfar Ekron, followed by the Givat Brenner ma'abara in 1955. From 1954 to 1963, Kfar Ekron belonged to the Givat Brenner regional council. In 1963, the name of the town was changed to Kiryat Ekron, and it became an independent local municipality.
According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics the population of Kiryat Ekron was 9800 in 2004. The average monthly wage in the year 2000 according to the bureau of statistics was ₪4296 (Israeli new sheqels) with the national average being ₪6835. The population was 99% Jewish and had a 1:1 male to female ratio.
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Lake County, Ohio
Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 230,041, which is an increase of 1.1% from 227,511 in 2000. The county seat is Painesville, and the county name comes from its location on the southern shore of Lake Erie.
Lake County is part of the Cleveland–Elyria–Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 979.20 square miles (2,536.1 km2), of which 227.49 square miles (589.2 km2) (or 23.23%) is land and 751.70 square miles (1,946.9 km2) (or 76.77%) is water. Lake County is Ohio's smallest county by land area.
As of the census of 2000, there were 227,511 people, 89,700 households, and 62,520 families residing in the county. The population density was 997 people per square mile (385/km²). There were 93,487 housing units at an average density of 410 per square mile (158/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.40% White, 1.99% Black or African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.90% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.66% from other races, and 0.92% from two or more races. 1.70% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 18.5% were of German, 14.6% Italian, 12.7% Irish, 8.1% English, 6.2% Polish, 5.7% American and 5.4% Slovene ancestry according to Census 2000. 93.6% spoke English and 1.9% Spanish as their first language.
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Lakemore, Ohio
Lakemore is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,561 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Lakemore is located at 41°1′18″N 81°25′48″W / 41.02167°N 81.43°W / 41.02167; -81.43 (41.021656, -81.430097).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which, 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (11.52%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,561 people, 969 households, and 704 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,751.8 people per square mile (677.3/km²). There were 1,018 housing units at an average density of 696.3 per square mile (269.2/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 97.81% White, 0.47% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.04% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.16% from other races, and 1.13% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.51% of the population.
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Lakewood, Ohio
Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area, and borders the city of Cleveland. The population was 52,131 at the 2010 Census, making it the third largest city in Cuyahoga County, behind Cleveland (396,815) and Parma (81,601).
Lakewood, one of Cleveland's inner-ring suburbs, borders the city of Cleveland to the west and north. Lakewood's population density is the highest of any city in Ohio and is roughly comparable to that of Washington, DC.
Lakewood is governed by an elected mayor and elected council. The council's strength is seven, with 4 members representing wards in the city and other three are at large council members. Lakewood is represented in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Dennis Kucinich(OH-10,D). In the state assembly it is represented by Michael Skindell (D) in the State Senate and by Nickie Antonio (D) in the State House. The expected expenditure for 2010 for the City of Lakewood is $33.7 Million with the city bringing in revenues of $ 34.03 Million. The current income tax is 1.5%, one of Ohio's lowest municipal income tax rates.
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Licking County, Ohio
Licking County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 166,492, which is an increase of 14.4% from 145,491 in 2000. Its county seat is Newark and is named for the salt licks that were in the area.
Licking County is part of the Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 687.49 square miles (1,780.6 km2), of which 682.50 square miles (1,767.7 km2) (or 99.27%) is land and 4.99 square miles (12.9 km2) (or 0.73%) is water.
Licking County was formed on January 30, 1808 from portions of Fairfield County. It was named after the salt licks found in the area.
As of the census of 2000, there were 146,491 people, 55,609 households, and 40,149 families residing in the county. The population density was 212 people per square mile (82/km²). There were 58,760 housing units at an average density of 86 per square mile (33/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.64% White, 2.06% Black or African American, 0.30% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 1.10% from two or more races. 0.76% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Logan County, Ohio
Logan County is a county in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 45,858, which is a decrease of 0.3% from 46,005 in 2000. The county seat is Bellefontaine. The county is named for Benjamin Logan, who fought Native Americans in the area.
The Bellefontaine Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Logan County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 466.77 square miles (1,208.9 km2), of which 458.43 square miles (1,187.3 km2) (or 98.21%) is land and 8.34 square miles (21.6 km2) (or 1.79%) is water.Campbell Hill, the highest natural point in Ohio at 1,549 feet (472 m), is located northeast of Bellefontaine.
As of the census of 2000, there were 46,005 people, 17,956 households, and 12,730 families residing in the county. The population density was 100 people per square mile (39/km²). There were 21,571 housing units at an average density of 47 per square mile (18/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 96.15% White, 1.71% Black or African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.40% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.27% from other races, and 1.24% from two or more races. 0.72% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 96.8% spoke English, 1.0% German and 1.0% Spanish as their first language.
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Lorain County, Ohio
Lorain County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio, and is considered to be a part of what is locally referred to as Greater Cleveland. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 301,356, which is an increase of 5.9% from 284,664 in 2000.Named by early settler Heman Ely for the French province of Lorraine, its county seat is Elyria and its largest community is the Lake Erie port city of Lorain.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 923.33 square miles (2,391.4 km2), of which 491.10 square miles (1,271.9 km2) (or 53.19%) is land and 432.23 square miles (1,119.5 km2) (or 46.81%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 284,664 people, 105,836 households, and 76,201 families residing in the county. The population density was 578 people per square mile (223/km²). There were 111,368 housing units at an average density of 226 per square mile (87/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 85.54% White, 16.2% Black or African American, 0.30% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 2.87% from other races, and 2.17% from two or more races. 6.91% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 21.1% were of German, 10.5% Irish, 7.8% English, 7.0% Polish, 6.8% Italian and 6.3% American ancestry according to Census 2000. 92.2% spoke English and 4.9% Spanish as their first language.
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Lorain, Ohio
Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Black River, about 30 miles west of Cleveland.
As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 64,097, making it Ohio's 10th largest city. It was first settled in 1807 and was originally named Charleston.
Ford Motor Company had the Lorain Assembly Plant in the city, mostly known for assembling the Ford Econoline (E-series) van, Ford Torino and Mercury Montego, and beginning in 1975 the Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar (through 1997); the plant ceased all production on December 14, 2005 because the union workers voted to not work weekends. The sprawling United States Steel Mills, portions recently acquired by Republic Steel, stretch for nearly 3 miles on the city's south side. These mills have operated in the city since 1895 and continue to employ thousands of local residents. Though the blast furnaces were idled in late 2008, Republic announced in December 2011 that they would be building electric arc furnaces to once again make steel in Lorain.
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Lucas County, Ohio
Lucas County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 441,815, which is a decrease of 2.9% from 455,054 in 2000. Its county seat is Toledo. Lucas County was named for Robert Lucas, 12th governor of Ohio, in 1835 during his second term. Its establishment provoked the Toledo War conflict with the Michigan Territory.
Lucas County is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 595.88 square miles (1,543.3 km2), of which 340.86 square miles (882.8 km2) (or 57.20%) is land and 255.02 square miles (660.5 km2) (or 42.80%) is water.
Lucas County is drained by the Maumee River.
As of the census of 2000, there were 455,054 people, 182,847 households, and 116,290 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,337 people per square mile (516/km²). There were 196,259 housing units at an average density of 576 per square mile (223/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 77.50% White, 16.98% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 1.21% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.86% from other races, and 2.16% from two or more races. 4.54% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Macedonia, Ohio
Macedonia is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 11,188 at the 2010 census. Macedonia is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The city's name is said to derive from a small joke among divinity students at Western Reserve College, which in the early 19th century was in Hudson, Ohio. The students, who were called upon to preach in the small hamlet 6 miles (9.7 km) to the north, recalled Acts 16:10: "...we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them."
Macedonia is located at 41°19′4″N 81°30′5″W / 41.31778°N 81.50139°W / 41.31778; -81.50139 (41.317807, -81.501460).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.7 square miles (25 km2), of which, 9.7 square miles (25 km2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.41%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,224 people, 3,276 households, and 2,656 families residing in the city. The population density was 953.3 people per square mile (367.9/km²). There were 3,359 housing units at an average density of 347.2 per square mile (134.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 91.42% White, 5.59% African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.83% Asian, 0.24% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.75% of the population.
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Madison County, Ohio
Madison County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 43,435, which is an increase of 8.0% from 40,213 in 2000. Its county seat is London. Madison County is named for James Madison, President of the United States and was established on March 1, 1810. The county is part of the Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 2008, Madison County, which spans Interstates 70 and 71 as they converge on Columbus, was cited by the Ohio State Highway Patrol as leading the state for the most number of speeding tickets in excess of 20-mph over the posted limit. Despite a population of around 42,000 in 2006, over 7,700 such tickets were issued in three years. Approximately 3 of Madison County's 18 fatal crashes in 2006 and 2007 occurred on interstates. Madison County is also home to the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation, and several prison facilities.
As of 1850, the county contained 24 churches and one newspaper office, had a total population of 10,015, and the county's public school system had 3838 pupils. With agriculture as the primary business, that same year the county produced 726,451 bushels of corn, 19,308 tons of hay, 120,696 pounds of wool, and 128,948 pounds of butter. As of 1900, the county had a population of 20,590.
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Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Cleveland and 66 miles (106 km) northeast of Columbus.
It was founded in 1808 on a fork of the Mohican River in a hilly region surrounded by fertile farmlands, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location with numerous railroad lines. After the decline of heavy manufacturing, the city's industry has since diversified into a service economy, including retailing, education, and healthcare sectors.
The population of the city was 47,821 at the 2010 Census. The US Census 2009 estimates indicate that the Mansfield, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 124,490 residents, while the Mansfield-Bucyrus, OH Combined Statistical Area has 167,893 residents.
Mansfield's official nickname is "The Fun Center of Ohio". It is the largest city in the "Mid-Ohio" region of the state, the north-central region which is generally considered to extend from Marion, Delaware, Knox, Morrow, Crawford, Ashland and Richland counties in the south, to the Firelands area south of Sandusky in the north. Mansfield is also known as the "Carousel Capital of Ohio," "Danger City," and "Racing Capital of Ohio".
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Marietta, Ohio
Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Ohio, United States. During 1788, pioneers to the Ohio Country established Marietta as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory. Marietta is located in southeastern Ohio at the mouth of the Muskingum River at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. The population was 14,085 at the 2010 census. It is the second-largest by population of three principal cities of and included in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio (part) Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also home to private, nonsectarian contemporary liberal arts Marietta College.
In 1770, future U.S. president George Washington, then a surveyor, began exploring large tracts of land west of his native Virginia. During the Revolutionary War, Washington told his friend, General Rufus Putnam, of the beauty he had seen in his travels through the Ohio Valley and of his ideas for settling the territory. After the war, the newly formed country found itself with little money but plenty of natural resources, which led the new government to pay men who had served in the revolution not with cash but with warrants for land in the Northwest Territory. There was one problem with these warrants, however. The Federal Government did not own the land it offered until the passage of the Ordinance of 1787 which ceded ownership of the Northwest Territory to the government. The Ohio Company of Associates planned to buy 1.5 million acres (6,100 km²) of land from Congress with provisions it had written in the ordinance which allowed veterans to use their warrants to purchase the land.
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Marion County, Ohio
Marion County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 66,501, which is an increase of 0.4% from 66,217 in 2000. Its county seat is the city of Marion and is named for General Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion, an officer in the Revolutionary War.
The Marion Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Marion County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 404.11 square miles (1,046.6 km2), of which 403.76 square miles (1,045.7 km2) (or 99.91%) is land and 0.35 square miles (0.91 km2) (or 0.09%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 66,217 people, 24,578 households, and 17,253 families residing in the county. The population density was 164 people per square mile (63/km²). There were 26,298 housing units at an average density of 65 per square mile (25/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 92.10% White, 5.75% Black or African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.52% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.49% from other races, and 0.95% from two or more races. 1.09% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Medina County, Ohio
Medina County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 172,332, which is an increase of 14.1% from 151,095 in 2000. The 2004 projected population was estimated at 165,370. Its county seat is Medina, and it is named for Medina in Saudi Arabia, though the "I" in it is pronounced instead to rhyme with "dine.".
Medina County is part of the Cleveland–Elyria–Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 423.02 square miles (1,095.6 km2), of which 421.36 square miles (1,091.3 km2) (or 99.61%) is land and 1.66 square miles (4.3 km2) (or 0.39%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 151,095 people, 54,542 households, and 42,215 families residing in the county. The population density was 358 people per square mile (138/km²). There were 56,793 housing units at an average density of 135 per square mile (52/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.26% White, 0.88% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.25% from other races, and 0.80% from two or more races. 0.93% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 26.8% were of German, 11.5% Irish, 8.6% Italian, 8.4% English, 8.4% Polish and 7.8% American ancestry according to Census 2000. 95.3% spoke English, 1.2% Spanish and 1.0% German as their first language.
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Meigs County, Ohio
Meigs County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 23,770, which is an increase of 3.0% from 23,072 in 2000. Its county seat is Pomeroy, and it is named for Return J. Meigs, Jr., the 4th Governor of Ohio.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 433.00 square miles (1,121.5 km2), of which 430.10 square miles (1,114.0 km2) (or 99.33%) is land and 2.90 square miles (7.5 km2) (or 0.67%) is water. The Ohio River forms the eastern and southern boundary of the county.
Meigs County lies in the Appalachian Plateau physiographic region of the Appalachian Mountains. The landscape is considered to be anywhere from gently rolling to rugged, typical of a dissected plateau. Elevations range from 978 feet (298 m) asl (above sea level) in the northwest to about 535 feet (163 m) asl in the far south central part of the county along the Ohio River. The majority of Meigs County is drained by two subwatersheds of the Ohio River, Shade River and Leading Creek. Another stream of note is Raccoon Creek, which flows through a small area of the northwestern corner of the county.
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Mercer County, Ohio
Mercer County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 40,814, which is a decrease of 0.3% from 40,924 in 2000. Its county seat is Celina and is named for Hugh Mercer, an officer in the American Revolutionary War.
The Celina Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Mercer County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 473.42 square miles (1,226.2 km2), of which 462.45 square miles (1,197.7 km2) (or 97.68%) is land and 10.98 square miles (28.4 km2) (or 2.32%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 40,924 people, 14,756 households, and 11,022 families residing in the county. The population density was 88 people per square mile (34/km²). There were 15,875 housing units at an average density of 34 per square mile (13/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.44% White, 0.10% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. 1.15% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Miami County, Ohio
Miami County is a county located in the state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 102,506, which is an increase of 3.7% from 98,868 in 2000. Its county seat is Troy and is named for an Indian word of disputed meaning.
Miami County is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 409.66 square miles (1,061.0 km2), of which 406.58 square miles (1,053.0 km2) (or 99.25%) is land and 3.08 square miles (8.0 km2) (or 0.75%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 98,868 people, 38,437 households, and 27,943 families residing in the county. The population density was 243 people per square mile (94/km²). There were 40,554 housing units at an average density of 100 per square mile (38/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.78% White, 1.95% Black or African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.79% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.28% from other races, and 1.00% from two or more races. 0.73% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Middletown, Ohio
Middletown is an All-America City (awarded once, in 1957) located in Butler and Warren counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Formerly in Lemon, Turtlecreek, and Franklin townships, Middletown was incorporated by the Ohio General Assembly on February 11, 1833, and became a city in 1886. The city was the home of AK Steel Holding Corporation (formerly Armco), a major steel works founded in 1900 until offices were moved to West Chester Township, Ohio in 2007, but AK Steel's factory still resides in Middletown. Middletown contains a small municipal airport known as Hook Field, (airport code MWO), but is no longer served by commercial airliners, only general aviation. A regional campus of Miami University is located in Middletown.
The population of Middletown as of the 2010 census was 48,694. It is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Its name is believed to have come from its founder, Stephen Vail, but questions remain unanswered as to why. One local historian stated that the city received its name because Mr. Vail had come from Middletown, New Jersey. Another writer believed that the city was named Middletown because it was the midway point of navigation on the Great Miami River, which was then considered a navigable stream. Another theory is credited to the city being roughly half way between Dayton and Cincinnati. Vail centered the city in Fractional Section 28 of Town 2, Range 4 North. One of the first settlers in Middletown was Daniel Doty who migrated there from New Jersey in the late 18th century.
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Mogadore, Ohio
Mogadore ( /ˈmɒɡədɔər/ MOG-ə-dor) is a village in Portage and Summit counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a suburb of Akron and is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,893 at the 2000 census.
Mogadore is located at 41°3′8″N 81°23′50″W / 41.05222°N 81.39722°W / 41.05222; -81.39722 (41.052256, -81.397241).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km²), of which 2.1 square miles (5.4 km²) are land and 0.04 square mile (0.1 km²) (0.95%) is water.
Mogadore's first settler, Ariel Bradley, was only nine years old when he was a spy for George Washington during the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley came to the Western Reserve of Ohio and eventually settled in a small crescent shaped valley with good timber and plenty of springs. There in 1807 he built a log cabin on a tract of land costing $335.00 containing 146 acres (0.59 km2). The town eventually became known as Bradleyville, then in 1825 the name of the town would be changed through the unintentional act of a celebrating sailor.
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Monroe County, Ohio
Monroe County is a county located in the state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 14,642, which is a decrease of 3.5% from 15,180 in 2000. Its county seat is Woodsfield and is named for James Monroe, Secretary of State when the county was formed and later President of the United States.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 457.46 square miles (1,184.8 km2), of which 455.72 square miles (1,180.3 km2) (or 99.62%) is land and 1.74 square miles (4.5 km2) (or 0.38%) is water.
Monroe County was formed on January 28, 1813 from portions of Belmont, Guernsey and Washington counties. It was named after James Monroe, a US Secretary of State and later fifth President of the United States.
On or about December 20, 2011, Exxon Mobil Corp., a New Jersey petroleum company, via its subsidiary XTO Energy, acquired 20,056 acres of Monroe County Utica Shale gas leases from Beck Energy.
As of the census of 2000, there were 15,180 people, 6,021 households, and 4,413 families residing in the county. The population density was 33 people per square mile (13/km²). There were 7,212 housing units at an average density of 16 per square mile (6/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.72% White, 0.26% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.11% from other races, and 0.67% from two or more races. 0.41% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Montrose-Ghent, Ohio
Montrose-Ghent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Summit County, Ohio, United States, composed of the unincorporated communities of Montrose and Ghent. The population was 5,261 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area. Despite sharing a commercial district with Fairlawn, the regions are administratively separate.
Montrose-Ghent is located at 41°9′4″N 81°38′17″W / 41.15111°N 81.63806°W / 41.15111; -81.63806 (41.150996, -81.638039).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.5 square miles (25 km2), of which, 9.4 square miles (24 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.95%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,261 people, 1,920 households, and 1,591 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 558.4 people per square mile (215.6/km²). There were 1,987 housing units at an average density of 210.9/sq mi (81.4/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.52% White, 0.87% African American, 0.08% Native American, 1.84% Asian, 0.06% from other races, and 0.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.57% of the population.
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Morgan County, Ohio
Morgan County is a county located in the state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 15,054, which is an increase of 1.1% from 14,897 in 2000. Its county seat is McConnelsville and is named for Daniel Morgan, an officer in the American Revolutionary War.
Morgan County was formed on December 29, 1817, from portions of Guernsey, Muskingum and Washington Counties. It was named after Daniel Morgan, a member in the Congress for Virginia, and general in the American Revolutionary War.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 421.78 square miles (1,092.4 km2), of which 416.42 square miles (1,078.5 km2) (or 98.73%) is land and 5.36 square miles (13.9 km2) (or 1.27%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,897 people, 5,890 households, and 4,176 families residing in the county. The population density was 36 people per square mile (14/km²). There were 7,771 housing units at an average density of 19 per square mile (7/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 93.66% White, 3.41% Black or African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.26% from other races, and 2.24% from two or more races. 0.41% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Morrow County, Ohio
Morrow County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. Shawnee people used the area for hunting purposes before white settlers arrived in the early 19th century. Morrow County was organized in 1848 from parts of four neighboring counties and named for Jeremiah Morrow, Governor of Ohio from 1822 to 1826. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 34,827, which is an increase of 10.1% from 31,628 in 2000. Its county seat is Mount Gilead. The center of population of Ohio is also located east of Mount Gilead. Morrow County is part of the Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Famous people born in Morrow County include (1) Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, who was born near Blooming Grove, Ohio, in northeast Morrow County; (2) Quaker abolitionist Richard Dillingham, who was born in Peru Township; (3) Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus, cleryman, writer and educator (see Illinois Institute of Technology), who was born in Chesterville, Ohio; and (4) writer Dawn Powell, who was born in Mount Gilead.
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Munroe Falls, Ohio
Munroe Falls is a city located in the east-central portion of Summit County, Ohio, United States, between Stow and Tallmadge. It is a suburb of Akron and is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,314 at the 2000 census.
Like much of the Connecticut Western Reserve, the area that makes up present-day Munroe Falls was previously inhabited by various tribes of American Indians. When the Western Reserve began being surveyed in 1796, what is now Munroe Falls was mostly in the southern part of the survey township Town 3, Range 10 (later to be Stow Township), then a part of Washington County before being placed in the new Jefferson County the following year. In 1800, it was made part of Trumbull County, which followed the boundaries of the Western Reserve, and in 1808, the area was made part of Portage County. The first settlers in present-day Munroe Falls, a group of around 40 people including Francis Kelsey and William Stow, came in 1809. Kelsey built a sawmill on the south side of the Cuyahoga River and a gristmill was built on the north side. The initial name of the new village was Kelsey's Mills (also Kelsey Mills). In 1817 a wooden dam was built to provide power for both mills and the name of the village was changed to Florence. Around 1836, William and Edmund Munroe (also spelled Monroe) from Boston arrived and purchased the two mills and approximately 250 acres (101 ha) of land around them to lay out a new village, which they named Munroe Falls. The village was incorporated October 26, 1838. The Munroes had great plans for the village to become a center of commerce and an important city, but these plans never worked out. After about 10 years, which included the economic instability of the Panic of 1837, the Munroes defaulted to many of the creditors and the properties they owned were taken over by other individuals.
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New Franklin, Ohio
New Franklin is a city located at the southern edge of Summit County, Ohio, United States, in the northeastern part of the state. It is bounded by Coventry Township, as well as the cities of Barberton and Norton to the north; by Chippewa Township, Wayne County; by Clinton to the southwest; by Green to the east; by Lawrence Township, Stark County to the south. The population was 14,227 according to the 2010 Census. New Franklin is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 1997 the village of New Franklin was incorporated from a section of Franklin Township to thwart annexation attempts from neighboring cities. New Franklin expanded significantly in November 2003 when the residents of Franklin Township and New Franklin voted to merge the two entities, rendering Franklin Township in Summit County defunct. The merger took effect January 1, 2005. The village officially became a city on March 6, 2006.
On November 6, 2007, city residents voted against changing the city's name to Portage Lakes, 57% to 42%.
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Newark, Ohio
Newark is a city in and the county seat of Licking County, Ohio, United States, 33 miles (53 km) east of Columbus, at the junction of the forks of the Licking River. The population was 47,573 at the 2010 census which makes it the 20th largest city in Ohio.
Newark is located at 40°3′47″N 82°25′0″W / 40.06306°N 82.416667°W / 40.06306; -82.416667 (40.063014, -82.416779).
In terms of population, Newark is the second-largest Newark in the United States, after Newark, New Jersey. It is part of the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 19.8 square miles (51 km2), of which, 19.5 square miles (51 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (1.21%) is water.
As of the census July 2010, there were 47,236 people, 19,312 households, and 12,108 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,366.7 people per square mile (914.0/km²). There were 20,625 housing units at an average density of 1,054.8 per square mile (407.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 94.12% White, 3.10% African American, 0.30% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 07.32% Pacific Islander, 0.33% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.84% of the population.
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Noble County, Ohio
Noble County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 14,645, which is an increase of 4.2% from 14,058 in 2000. Its county seat is Caldwell. Noble County is named for Rep. Warren P. Noble of the Ohio House of Representatives, who was an early settler there.
Noble County was home to the first North American oil well, the Thorla-McKee Well, discovered in 1814. It was the last of Ohio's 88 counties to be formed, in 1851. In 1925, a United States Navy dirigible, USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), was caught in a storm over Noble County, and broke into several pieces. Of those on board, 14 were killed and 29 survived.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 404.57 square miles (1,047.8 km2), of which 398.01 square miles (1,030.8 km2) (or 98.38%) is land and 6.56 square miles (17.0 km2) (or 1.62%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,058 people, 4,546 households, and 3,318 families residing in the county. The population density was 35 people per square mile (14/km²). There were 5,480 housing units at an average density of 14 per square mile (5/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 92.55% White, 6.69% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.03% from other races, and 0.38% from two or more races. 0.43% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Northeast Ohio
Northeast Ohio refers to the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Ohio. The region itself contains multiple metropolitan areas, including: Greater Cleveland; the Akron metropolitan area; the Canton–Massillon metropolitan area; and the Youngstown metropolitan area. Northeast Ohio also includes most of the area known historically as the Connecticut Western Reserve.
Most listings classify 16 counties as being part of the Northeast Ohio region, although there are some that define it as having as many as 20 (those that are inconsistently listed are marked with an asterisk below). The 20-county list puts the population of Northeast Ohio over 5 million people with a labor force of almost 2 million and a gross regional product of more than US$134 billion.
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Northfield, Ohio
Northfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,827 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Northfield is located at 41°20′31″N 81°31′51″W / 41.34194°N 81.53083°W / 41.34194; -81.53083 (41.341978, -81.530957).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,827 people, 1,573 households, and 1,052 families residing in the village. The population density was 3,568.1 people per square mile (1,380.9/km²). There were 1,676 housing units at an average density of 1,562.6 per square mile (604.8/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 92.50% White, 3.40% African American, 0.24% Native American, 2.19% Asian, 0.63% from other races, and 1.05% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.84% of the population.
There were 1,573 households out of which 33.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.2% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.1% were non-families. 27.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 2.97.
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Norton, Ohio
Norton is a city in Summit and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 11,523 at the 2000 census.
The Summit County portion of Norton is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the small portion in Wayne County is part of the Wooster Micropolitan Statistical Area.
In December 2011, a reindeer was spotted walking down State Route 21.
Norton located at 41°1′31″N 81°38′38″W / 41.02528°N 81.64389°W / 41.02528; -81.64389 (41.025283, -81.643786), almost entirely in Summit County.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 20.5 square miles (53.0 km²), of which, 20.1 square miles (52.1 km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km²) of it (1.61%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 11,523 people, 4,343 households, and 3,361 families residing in the city. The population density was 572.8 people per square mile (221.1/km²). There were 4,523 housing units at an average density of 224.8 per square mile (86.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.35% White, 1.34% African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.28% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.14% from other races, and 0.69% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.41% of the population.
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Ohio
Ohio (i/oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Ohio is the 34th most extensive, the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.
The name "Ohio" originated from Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning "great river". The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803. Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the "Buckeye State" (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes".
The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court. Currently, Ohio occupies 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections.
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Ottawa County, Ohio
Ottawa County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 41,428, which is an increase of 1.1% from 40,985 in 2000. Its county seat is Port Clinton and is named either for the Ottawa Indians who lived there, or for an Indian word meaning "trader".
Ottawa County is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area.
On September 10, 1813, during the War of 1812, nine vessels of the United States Navy under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, decisively defeated six vessels of Great Britain’s Royal Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay. This action was one of the major battles of the war.
Ottawa County was formed on March 6, 1840 from portions of Erie, Lucas and Sandusky counties. It was named after the North American Indian tribe of the Ottawa.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 585.06 square miles (1,515.3 km2), of which 254.92 square miles (660.2 km2) (or 43.57%) is land and 330.15 square miles (855.1 km2) (or 56.43%) is water.
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Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is the largest suburb of Cleveland and the seventh largest city in the state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 81,601.
Parma is southwest of Cleveland; it is bounded by Cleveland and Brooklyn on the north, Brooklyn Heights, and Seven Hills on the east, North Royalton and Broadview Heights on the south, and Brook Park, Middleburg Heights, and Parma Heights on the west. Parma was originally part of Parma Township, created on March 7, 1826. The first settlers were the Benaiah Fay family from New York state, who settled along the Cleveland-Columbus Road in 1816. The name was taken from Parma, New York, where it was probably derived from the early 19th century fascination with classical Italy. During the 19th century, Parma remained largely agricultural. In 1912, a portion of the township seceded to form the village of Parma Heights. In the fall of 1924, Parma was incorporated as a village, and in 1926 it adopted the mayor-council form of government. On January 1, 1931, a proposition to annex it to the city of Cleveland was defeated, and Parma became a city. The water-supply reservoir in Parma Reservoir Park, planned in the 1920s and completed in 1936 using WPA labor, is still in use today.
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Peninsula, Ohio
Peninsula is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 602 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is located in the middle of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which provides a source of tourism to the village. Blossom Music Center is located on its outskirts. The Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail runs through just west of downtown, and many bikers and hikers stop for refreshments as it is one of the only towns between Akron and Cleveland.
Peninsula is bordered on its east side by Boston Heights. It is a part of Boston Township.
Over 20 places in Peninsula are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Perry County, Ohio
Perry County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. Founded on March 1, 1818, it was the 55th county to be formed in Ohio. Portions of Fairfield, Washington and Muskingum Counties were taken to create Perry County. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 36,058, which is an increase of 5.8% from 34,078 in 2000. Its county seat is New Lexington, and it is named for Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the War of 1812. One of the poorest counties in the state, this is where the lawsuit challenging Ohio's school funding system, DeRolph v. State, began.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 412.49 square miles (1,068.3 km2), of which 407.97 square miles (1,056.6 km2) (or 98.90%) is land and 4.52 square miles (11.7 km2) (or 1.10%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 34,078 people, 12,500 households, and 9,350 families residing in the county. The population density was 83 people per square mile (32/km²). There were 13,655 housing units at an average density of 33 per square mile (13/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.54% White, 0.22% Black or African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races. 0.45% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( /ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə/) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,526,006 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Philadelphia is also the commercial, cultural, and educational center of the Delaware Valley, home to 6 million people and the country's fifth-largest metropolitan area. The Philadelphia metropolitan division consists of five counties in Pennsylvania and has a population of 4,008,994. Popular nicknames for Philadelphia are Philly and The City of Brotherly Love, the latter of which comes from the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια ([pʰilaˈdelpʰeːa], Modern Greek: [filaˈðelfia]) "brotherly love", compounded from philos (φίλος) "loving", and adelphos (ἀδελφός) "brother").
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Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix ( /ˈfiːnɪks/ FEE-niks; O'odham: Ski:kigk; Yavapai: Wathinka or Wakatehe; Western Apache: Fiinigis; Navajo: Hoozdoh; Mojave: Hachpa 'Anya Nyava) is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populous city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data. It is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area (also known as the Valley of the Sun), and is the 12th largest metro area by population in the United States with about 4.2 million people in 2010. In addition, Phoenix is the county seat of Maricopa County, and is one of the largest cities in the United States by land area. Phoenix is the largest capital city in the United States and the only state capital with over 1,000,000 people.
Phoenix was incorporated as a city in 1881, after being founded in 1861 near the Salt River, close to the confluence with the Gila River. The city has a notable and famous political culture and has been home to numerous influential American politicians and other dignitaries, including Barry Goldwater, William Rehnquist, John McCain, Carl Hayden, and Sandra Day O'Connor. Residents of the city are known as Phoenicians.
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Pigeon Creek, Ohio
Pigeon Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 945 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Pigeon Creek is located at 41°6′42″N 81°40′13″W / 41.11167°N 81.67028°W / 41.11167; -81.67028 (41.111554, -81.670321).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 945 people, 322 households, and 285 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,058.5 people per square mile (410.0/km²). There were 326 housing units at an average density of 365.1/sq mi (141.4/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.77% White, 1.90% African American, 1.80% Asian, and 0.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.11% of the population.
There were 322 households out of which 43.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.6% were married couples living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.2% were non-families. 9.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.93 and the average family size was 3.14.
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Pike County, Ohio
Pike County is a county located in the Appalachian region of the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 28,709, which is an increase of 3.7% from 27,695 in 2000. Its county seat is Waverly and is named for explorer Zebulon Pike.
Pike County was organized on February 1, 1815, from portions of Scioto, Ross, and Adams Counties, and was named in honor of Zebulon Pike, the explorer and soldier who had recently been killed in the War of 1812.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 443.98 square miles (1,149.9 km2), of which 440.28 square miles (1,140.3 km2) (or 99.17%) is land and 3.69 square miles (9.6 km2) (or 0.83%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 27,695 people, 10,444 households, and 7,665 families residing in the county. The population density was 63 people per square mile (24/km²). There were 11,602 housing units at an average density of 26 per square mile (10/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 96.72% White, 0.89% Black or African American, 0.74% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.07% from other races, and 1.36% from two or more races. 0.56% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Portage County, Ohio
Portage County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 161,419, which is an increase of 6.2% from 152,061 in 2000. Its county seat is Ravenna. Portage County is named for the portage between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas Rivers. Portage County is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The name "Portage" comes from an old Native American path called "Portage Trail", which ran between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers, where travelers portaged their canoes. The location of the trail today is within the boundaries of neighboring Summit County.
The first European settler in what is now Portage County was Abraham Honey in 1798 in the area now known as Mantua Township, followed by Asa Hall in what is now Atwater Township in April 1799. In June 1799, Benjamin Tappan, Jr. arrived and founded Ravenna, David Daniels came to what is now Palmyra Township, and Ebenezer Sheldon settled in what is now Aurora.
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Portage Lakes, Ohio
Portage Lakes is a census-designated place (CDP) in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 9,870 at the 2000 census. The city of Green is adjacent to the southeast and Akron on the north. The nearby Portage Lakes of the area include but are not limited to Turkeyfoot Lake, Nimisila Reservoir, Mud Lake, and Long Lake. The lakes are connected by a series of "channels". There is a Portage Lakes State Park with boat launching ramps and seasonal beach swimming.
Portage Lakes is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Portage Lakes is located at 41°0′13″N 81°32′6″W / 41.00361°N 81.535°W / 41.00361; -81.535 (41.0034979, -81.5348850).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.2 square miles (21 km2), of which, 6.6 square miles (17 km2) of it is land and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) of it (19.49%) is water.
At the 2000 census, Portage Lakes included portions of Coventry and Franklin townships. On 1 January 2005, all of Franklin Township was merged into the village of New Franklin; as a result, the CDP's Franklin Township portion is now entirely within New Franklin. Therefore, the CDP today consists of territory only in Coventry Township, as CDPs are only located in unincorporated areas.
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Preble County, Ohio
Preble County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 42,270, which is a decrease of 0.2% from 42,337 in 2000. Its county seat is Eaton. It is named for Edward Preble, a naval officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and against the Barbary Pirates.
Preble County is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 426.46 square miles (1,104.5 km2), of which 424.12 square miles (1,098.5 km2) (or 99.45%) is land and 2.34 square miles (6.1 km2) (or 0.55%) is water.
Preble County was formed on February 15, 1808 from portions of Butler County and Montgomery County. It named after Edward Preble, a marine officer in the American Revolutionary War.
As of the census of 2000, there were 42,337 people, 16,001 households, and 12,144 families residing in the county. The population density was 100 people per square mile (38/km²). There were 17,186 housing units at an average density of 40 per square mile (16/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.47% White, 0.32% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.11% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. 0.43% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Putnam County, Ohio
Putnam County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 34,499, which is a decrease of 0.7% from 34,726 in 2000. The name is in honor of Israel Putnam, who was a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War. Its county seat is Ottawa.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 484.30 square miles (1,254.3 km2), of which 482.52 square miles (1,249.7 km2) (or 99.63%) is land and 1.78 square miles (4.6 km2) (or 0.37%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 34,726 people, 12,200 households, and 9,308 families residing in the county. The population density was 72 people per square mile (28/km²). There were 12,753 housing units at an average density of 26 per square mile (10/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 96.26% White, 0.17% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 2.51% from other races, and 0.73% from two or more races. 4.38% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Reminderville, Ohio
Reminderville is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,347 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Reminderville is located at 41°20′18″N 81°24′0″W / 41.33833°N 81.4°W / 41.33833; -81.4 (41.338198, -81.400128).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2), of which, 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.99%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,347 people, 917 households, and 672 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,178.2 people per square mile (455.4/km²). There were 937 housing units at an average density of 470.4 per square mile (181.8/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 94.72% White, 2.77% African American, 0.68% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other races, and 1.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.72% of the population.
There were 917 households out of which 38.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.7% were non-families. 23.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.05.
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Richfield, Ohio
Richfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,286 at the 2000 census. The village and the adjacent Richfield Township are approximately equidistant between the downtown areas of Akron and Cleveland. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Richfield was founded in 1809 and incorporated in 1967.
Four of John Brown's children are buried in Fairview Cemetery. The children, Austin, Charles, Peter and Sarah, all died in 1843 due to a smallpox epidemic when he was living in Richfield [1]. In 1970, Mayor Kenneth Swan signed an ordinance declaring Richfield Village the first “world city” in the United States. [2].
Richfield is located at 41°14′1″N 81°37′56″W / 41.23361°N 81.63222°W / 41.23361; -81.63222 (41.233722, -81.632228).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 8.5 square miles (22 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,286 people, 1,227 households, and 952 families residing in the village. The population density was 387.1 people per square mile (149.4/km²). There were 1,272 housing units at an average density of 149.8 per square mile (57.8/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 97.35% White, 0.49% African American, 0.30% Native American, 1.31% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.06% from other races, and 0.46% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.24% of the population.
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Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke is an independent city in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. state of Virginia and is the tenth-largest city in the Commonwealth. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. The population within the city limits was 97,032 as of 2010. It is the largest municipality in Southwest Virginia, and is the principal municipality of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). In 2009 the Roanoke MSA had an estimated population of 303,418 residents. It is composed of the independent cities of Roanoke and Salem, and the counties of Botetourt, Craig, Franklin and Roanoke. Bisected by the Roanoke River, Roanoke is the commercial and cultural hub of much of the surrounding area of Virginia and Southwest Virginia.
The town first called Big Lick was established in 1852 and chartered in 1874. It was named for a large outcropping of salt which drew the wildlife to the site near the Roanoke River. In 1882 it became the town of Roanoke, and in 1884 it was chartered as the independent city of Roanoke. The name Roanoke is said to have originated from an Algonquian word for shell "money". This was also the name of the river that bisected it (probably where shells had come from) and the county. The city grew frequently through annexation through the middle of the twentieth century. The last annexation was in 1976. The state legislature has since prohibited cities from annexing land from adjacent counties. Roanoke's location in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the middle of the Roanoke Valley between Maryland and Tennessee, made it the transportation hub of western Virginia and contributed to its rapid growth.
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Rockville, Maryland
Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a major incorporated city in the central part of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The 2010 U.S. Census tabulated the city's population at 61,209, making it the third largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind Baltimore and Frederick.
Rockville, along with neighboring Gaithersburg and Bethesda, is at the core of the Interstate 270 Technology Corridor which is home to numerous software and biotechnology companies as well as several federal government institutions. The city also has several upscale regional shopping centers and is one of the major retail hubs in Montgomery County.
Situated in Piedmont region and crossed by three creeks (Rock Creek, Cabin John Creek, and Watts Branch), Rockville provided an excellent refuge for semi-nomadic Native Americans as early as 8000 BC. By the first millennium BC, a few of these groups had settled down into year-round agricultural communities that exploited the native flora, including sunflowers and marsh elder. By AD 1200, these early groups (dubbed Montgomery Indians by later archaeologists) were increasingly drawn into conflict with the Senecas and Susquehannocks who had migrated south from Pennsylvania and New York. Within the present-day boundaries of the city, six prehistoric sites have been uncovered and documented, and borne artifacts several thousand years old. By the year 1700, under pressure from European colonists, the majority of these original inhabitants had been driven away.
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Ross County, Ohio
Ross County is a county located in the Appalachian region of the state of Ohio, United States established on August 20, 1798. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 78,064, which is an increase of 6.4% from 73,345 in 2000. Its county seat is Chillicothe, the first and third capital of Ohio. The county is named for Federalist Senator James Ross of Pennsylvania.
The Chillicothe Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Ross County, and is part of the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe, OH CSA (Combined Statistical Area).
Ross County is the second largest county by land area in Ohio, after Ashtabula County. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 693.02 square miles (1,794.9 km2), of which 689.19 square miles (1,785.0 km2) (or 99.45%) is land and 3.84 square miles (9.9 km2) (or 0.55%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 73,345 people, 27,136 households, and 19,185 families residing in the county. The population density was 106 people per square mile (41/km²). There were 29,461 housing units at an average density of 43 per square mile (17/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 91.74% White, 6.20% Black or African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.19% from other races, and 1.20% from two or more races. 0.58% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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San Antonio
San Antonio ( /ˌsænænˈtoʊni.oʊ/) is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.3 million. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000-2010, and the second from 1990-2000. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. San Antonio has characteristics of other western urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density rate outside of the city limits. The city is one of the two principal municipalities of the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, the other being New Braunfels. Commonly referred to as Greater San Antonio, the metropolitan area has a population of 2.2 million based on the 2011 U.S. Census estimate, making it the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and third-largest in the state of Texas.
The city was named for San Antonio de Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. Famous for Spanish missions, the Alamo, the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, Marriage Island and host to SeaWorld and Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks, the city is visited by approximately 26 million tourists per year according to the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau. The city is home to the four-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest in the country.
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Scioto County, Ohio
Scioto County is a county located in the south central region of the state of Ohio, United States, at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio rivers. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 79,499, which is an increase of 0.4% from 79,195 in 2000. It is named for an Indian word referring to deer or deer-hunting, and its county seat is Portsmouth. The county was formed on March 24, 1803, splitting from Adams County. It is the childhood home of former Ohio governor Ted Strickland.
The Portsmouth Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Scioto County.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 616.15 square miles (1,595.8 km2), of which 610.21 square miles (1,580.4 km2) (or 99.04%) is land and 5.94 square miles (15.4 km2) (or 0.96%) is water. Many parts of Scioto County are heavily forested, especially in the western half of the county with Shawnee State Park.
Shawnee State Forest and Park, the state's largest with over 88,000 acres (360 km2), covers most of western Scioto County, and Brush Creek State Park touches part of northwestern Scioto County. The county also has numerous parks and recreational areas in each of its townships, including Earl Thomas Conley Park on U.S. 52 west of Portsmouth. Public lands in the county also include the Wayne National Forest on the Ironton Ranger District. The 241,000-acre (980 km2) forest encompasses almost 12,000 acres (49 km2) in three townships in Scioto County (Vernon 6,793.50 acres (27.4923 km2), Green township 81,695 acres (330.61 km2), and Bloom 4,008.29 acres).
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Seneca County, Ohio
Coordinates: 41°08′N 83°08′W / 41.13°N 83.13°W / 41.13; -83.13
Seneca County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 56,745, which is a decrease of 3.3% from 58,683 in 2000. Its county seat is Tiffin and it is named for the Seneca Indians.
The Tiffin Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Seneca County.
The county was barely inhabited until the 1830s, but by 1860 its population had massively increased to about half the current number of inhabitants. It grew slowly from thereon, with periods of more marked increase towards the end of the 19th century, during the Great Depression and the post–World War II baby boom. In 1980 it was censused at 61,901, and has been declining since. Since about 2000, the county's population declines by about 100-300 persons annually, mainly due to a migration deficit of about 300 persons annually. This decline is projected to continue in the future.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 552.79 square miles (1,431.7 km2), of which 551.02 square miles (1,427.1 km2) (or 99.68%) is land and 1.78 square miles (4.6 km2) (or 0.32%) is water.
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Seward, Alaska
Seward is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,016.
It was named after William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In 1867, he fought for the U.S. purchase of Alaska which he finally negotiated to acquire from Russia.
In 1793 Alexander Baranov of the Shelikhov-Golikov company (precursor of the Russian-American Company) established a fur trade post on Resurrection Bay where Seward is today, and had a three-masted vessel, the Phoenix, built at the post by James Shields, an English shipwright in Russian service.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.5 square miles (56 km2), of which, 14.4 square miles (37 km2) of it is land and 7.1 square miles (18 km2) of it (32.93%) is water.
Adjoining communities include Bear Creek and Lowell Point.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,830 people, 917 households, and 555 families residing in the city. The population density was 196.0 people per square mile (75.7/km²). There were 1,058 housing units at an average density of 73.3 per square mile (28.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 72.12% White, 2.44% Black or African American, 16.68% Native American, 1.84% Asian, 0.18% Pacific Islander, 0.88% from other races, and 5.87% from two or more races. 2.40% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Shelby County, Ohio
Shelby County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 49,423, which is an increase of 3.2% from 47,910 in 2000. Its name honors Isaac Shelby, former governor of Kentucky. Its county seat is Sidney.
The Sidney Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Shelby County.
The Algonquian-speaking Shawnee Native Americans had come into the area in the 18th century, displacing the Ojibwa-speaking Ottawa of the Anishinaabeg, a related language group who moved northwest. The Shawnee were joined by the Iroquois, Seneca and Mingo peoples as well, displaced by colonial encroachment to the east. In 1792 the European-American pioneer John Hardin was killed by the Shawnee in Shelby County. Early settlers named the first county seat of Hardin after him.
Shelby County was created in 1819 from Miami County. For many years it contained Minster, New Bremen, etc.; these were included in Auglaize County when it was created from Shelby and Allen counties.
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Silver Lake, Ohio
Silver Lake is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States of America. It is an affluent suburb of Akron and is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,019 at the 2000 census. Silver Lake is located between, and surrounded by the cities of Stow and Cuyahoga Falls.
Silver Lake is located at 41°9′13″N 81°27′39″W / 41.15361°N 81.46083°W / 41.15361; -81.46083 (41.153556, -81.460860).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which, 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (11.25%) is water.
The village includes two lakes: Silver Lake and Crystal Lake.
Beginning in 1874, the lake and the land surrounding it was a popular amusement park in the Akron area. It was sold in 1917 and subdivided for residential development, leading to the incorporation of the village in 1918.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,019 people, 1,235 households, and 918 families residing in the village. The population density was 2,129.2 people per square mile (820.9/km²). There were 1,316 housing units at an average density of 928.1 per square mile (357.8/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.24% White, 0.13% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.17% from other races, and 0.66% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.79% of the population.
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Snowbelt
Snowbelt is a term describing of a number of regions near the Great Lakes in North America where heavy snowfall in the form of lake-effect snow is particularly common. Snowbelts are typically found downwind of the lakes, principally off the eastern and southern shores. Lake-effect snow occurs when cold air moves over warmer water, taking up moisture that later precipitates as snow when the air moves over land and cools. The lakes produce snowsqualls and persistently cloudy skies throughout the winter months, as long as air temperatures are colder than water temperatures, or until a lake freezes over.
In the United States, snowbelts are located southeast of Lake Erie from Cleveland, Ohio to Buffalo, New York, and south of Lake Ontario stretching roughly from Rochester, New York to Utica, New York, and northward to Watertown, New York. Other snowbelts are located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan from Gary, Indiana northward through Western Michigan and Northern Michigan to the Straits of Mackinac, and on the eastern and southern shores of Lake Superior from northwest Wisconsin through the northern half of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Springfield, Ohio
Springfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River, Buck Creek and Beaver Creek, approximately 45 miles (72 km) west of Columbus and 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Dayton. Springfield is home to Wittenberg University, a liberal arts college.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 60,608. According to the US Census 2007 estimate, the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 133,333 residents. The Dayton-Springfield-Greenville, OH Combined Statistical Area has 1,067,741 residents. Springfield is approximately one hour west of Columbus, Ohio, the state capital, and 30 minutes east of Dayton. Interstate 70 has four exits that serve the city of Springfield.
The Little Miami Scenic Trail, a paved rail-trail which is almost 80 miles long, goes from the Buck Creek Scenic Trailhead in Springfield south to Newtown, Ohio (near downtown Cincinnati), and is popular with hikers and cyclists.
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Stark County, Ohio
Stark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 375,586, which is a decrease of 0.7% from 378,098 in 2000. It is included in the Canton-Massillon, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is named for John Stark, an officer in the American Revolutionary War. Its county seat is Canton.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 580.53 square miles (1,503.6 km2), of which 575.27 square miles (1,489.9 km2) (or 99.09%) is land and 5.26 square miles (13.6 km2) (or 0.91%) is water.
Stark County, Ohio, is one of the few counties in the United States to border as many as eight counties.
Stark County was named in honor of American Revolutionary War General John Stark. John Stark (August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822) was a general who served in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He became widely known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennington in 1777.
In the later 20th century, Stark County's voting record swung from one party to another, closely tracking the winner of the U.S. Presidential election. Even within the swing state of Ohio, Stark County is regarded as a quintessential bellwether, and thus presidential candidates have typically made multiple visits to the region. Major media outlets typically pay close attention to the election results in the county. The New York Times in particular has covered the county's citizens and their voting concerns in a series of features each election cycle for over a decade.
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Stow, Ohio
Stow is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 34,837 at the 2010 census. It is a suburban community that is part of the Akron metropolitan area. Stow is located adjacent to several other suburban communities in Summit and Portage Counties. It is bordered on the south by the cities of Tallmadge and Munroe Falls and the village of Silver Lake, on the east by the city of Kent and Franklin Township, on the north by the city of Hudson, and on the west by the city of Cuyahoga Falls.
Stow Township, now Stow City, was a small part of the State of Connecticut's Western Reserve. At the close of the Revolutionary War, several states had conflicting claims for the vast territory west of them. They finally settled their dispute by each one of them turning over what land they claimed to the central government -- the U.S. Of the thirteen original states, only Connecticut held anything back, reserving a strip of land lying south of Lake Erie. As the new state's government was short of money, part was given in lieu of bonuses to Revolutionary soldiers. Connecticut sold the rest of the Reserve to the Connecticut Land Company, made up of speculators organized for that purpose. Joshua Stow of Middletown, Connecticut, secured for his share the land that is now the City of Stow. All of this land was surveyed under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance: divided into counties, the counties into townships, the townships into sections.
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Summit County, Ohio
Summit County is an urban county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 541,781, which is a decrease of 0.2% from 542,899 in 2000. Its county seat is Akron. It was named "Summit County" because the highest elevation on the Ohio and Erie Canal is located in the county.
Summit County is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Summit County is one of two of Ohio's 88 counties that has a charter government, as authorized by the Article X of the Ohio Constitution. Under its charter, rather than three elected commissioners, Summit County has an elected County Executive and an eleven member County Council. Eight members of the council are elected from individual districts the other three are elected at large. Summit County also has an appointed Medical Examiner rather than an elected Coroner, and an elected Fiscal Officer, who exercises the powers and performs the duties of a county auditor, treasurer and recorder. The remaining officials are similar to the officials in other counties. They include the following:
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( /təˈkoʊmə/, US dict: tə·kō′·mə) is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region that has a population of around 1 million people.
Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Mount Tahoma. It is known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-water harbor, Commencement Bay. By connecting the bay with the railroad Tacoma's motto became "When rails meet sails." Today Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of international trade on the Pacific Coast and Washington state's largest port.
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Tallmadge, Ohio
Tallmadge /ˈtælmɨdʒ/ (often mispronounced /ˈtɔːlmɨdʒ/) is a city in Summit and Portage counties in Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Akron and part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 17,537 at the 2010 census. Tallmadge was founded in 1807 and is the second-oldest city in Summit County, following Hudson, which was founded in 1799.
Historically, Tallmadge was a part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, which was a three million acre plot of land in northeast Ohio. Prior to it being named Tallmadge (after Benjamin Tallmadge), it was part of Town 2, Range 10 in the Western Reserve. In 1807, the Rev. David Bacon founded and organized Tallmadge, placing a square road in the center of town where several other roads met, modeled after New England designs of the time period.
In the nineteenth century, Tallmadge continued to develop around the square as its centerpiece, which years later became a traffic roundabout named the "Tallmadge Circle" (or simply "the Circle"). The Circle as it is today represents New England's role in the settlement of the Ohio Western Reserve. The rest of the city was designed in a grid pattern, with industry tending to develop near the railroad.
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan. The city was founded in 1833 on the west bank of the Maumee River, originally incorporated as part of Monroe County, Michigan Territory, then re-founded in 1837, after conclusion of the Toledo War, when it was incorporated in Ohio. Toledo grew quickly as a result of the Miami and Erie Canal and its position on the railway line between New York and Chicago. It has since become a city well known for its industry, particularly in glass and auto assembly, as well as for its art community, education, and local sports teams. The population of Toledo as of the 2010 Census was 287,208, while the Toledo metropolitan area had a population of 651,409.
French trading posts operated in the area as far back as 1680. The area was first settled by Americans in 1845, after the Battle of Fallen Timbers, with the founding of Fort Industry. However, many settlers fled the area during the War of 1812. Resettlement began around 1868 when a Cincinnati syndicate purchased a 974-acre (3.9 km2) tract at the mouth of Cedar Creek and named it Port Lawrence, creating the modern downtown area. Immediately to the north of that, another syndicate founded the town of Vistula, the historic north end. These two towns physically bordered each other with Cherry Street dividing them. This is why present day streets on the northeast side of Cherry Street run at a slightly different angle from those to the southwest of it.
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Tupelo, Mississippi
Tupelo /ˈtuːpəloʊ/ is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi. It is the seventh largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, and larger than Greenville. As of the 2000 United States Census, the city's population was 34,211. By 2010 census, the population was 34,546, with surrounding counties of Lee, Pontotoc and Itawamba supporting a population of 146,131. The city is best known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley. Situated in northeast Mississippi, the city lies between Memphis, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama, along U.S. Route 78 — slated to become Interstate 22 within a few years.
European-American settlers had first named the town Gum Pond prior to the American Civil War, supposedly due to the high number of tupelo trees, locally known as blackgum, that grew in the area. The city still hosts the annual Gumtree Arts Festival. The Southern expression, Possum Up A Gum Tree came from this area. During the war, the local Battle of Tupelo was named after the trees in the area. In the post-Civil War era, Tupelo became the northern Mississippi site for the crossing of a railroad, which encouraged industry in the town. Once the town began to grow, it changed its name to Tupelo, in honor of the battle. Tupelo was incorporated in 1870 with a population of 618.[citation needed] The war site has been designated the Tupelo National Battlefield and is administered by the National Park Service (NPS).
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Twinsburg, Ohio
Twinsburg is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States, a town about halfway between Akron and Cleveland. The population was 17,006 at the 2000 census.
Twinsburg is located at 41°19′27″N 81°27′10″W / 41.32417°N 81.45278°W / 41.32417; -81.45278 (41.324122, -81.452704).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.5 square miles (32.3 km²), of which, 12.4 square miles (32.2 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.24%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 17,006 people, 6,641 households, and 4,695 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,366.7 people per square mile (527.8/km²). There were 6,871 housing units at an average density of 552.2 per square mile (213.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 86.93% White, 8.73% African American, 0.11% Native American, 2.95% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.31% from other races, and 0.96% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.03% of the population.
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Union County, Ohio
Union County is a county located in the US state of Ohio. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 52,300, which is an increase of 27.8% from 40,909 in 2000. Its county seat is Marysville and its name is reflective of its origins, it being the union of pieces of Franklin, Delaware, Madison, and Logan Counties.
Union County is part of the Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Union County has been under the rule of three countries in its history: France, England, and the present-day United States. It was discovered by the French explorer La Salle, along with traders and missionaries who accompanied. After the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris of 1763 placed the area under British rule. Following the American Revolution, in 1783, the area would eventually become known as the Northwest Territory and part of the United States.
After the American Revolution, revolutionary soldiers from New England poured into Ohio after being granted land by the government. They surveyed the land, and sought to develop a state between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. Their proposals for the governance of the territory led to the passage of the Ordinance of 1787, which would guide the Northwest Territory until the establishment of states that it called for. Bitter struggles with American Indians over the next decades would follow, culminating with the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, which saw the final defeat of the American Indian tribes in Ohio led by Tecumseh. A notable victim of the warring between the settlers and Indians was Jonathan Alder, who resided in and around the Union County area throughout his life.
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Vinton County, Ohio
Vinton County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 13,435, which is an increase of 4.9% from 12,806 in 2000, It is the least populous county in the state. Its county seat is McArthur. The county is named for Samuel Finley Vinton, a 19th-century United States Congressman from Ohio.
According to the United States Census Bureau, According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 414.98 square miles (1,074.8 km2), of which 412.36 square miles (1,068.0 km2) (or 99.37%) is land and 2.62 square miles (6.8 km2) (or 0.63%) is water.
Most of Vinton County is in the Raccoon Creek watershed. Most of the rest of the county, to the west, is in the Salt Creek watershed.
Vinton County has a wealth of public lands. An area of the Wayne National Forest is located in the center of the county. Three state forests are partly in the county: Zaleski State Forest, Tar Hollow State Forest, and Richland Furnace State Forest. The county features two state parks: Lake Hope State Park and Lake Alma State Park. There are three state wildlife areas in the county: Wellston State Wildlife Area, Turkey Ridge State Wildlife Area, and the 16,000-acre (65 km2) Raccoon Ecological Management Area (REMA).
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Warren County, Ohio
Warren County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 212,693, which is an increase of 34.3% from 158,383 in 2000. Its county seat is Lebanon. Warren County was erected May 1, 1803, from Hamilton County, and named for Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere on his ride and who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Warren County is part of the Cincinnati–Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 407.31 square miles (1,054.9 km2), of which 401.31 square miles (1,039.4 km2) (or 98.53%) is land and 6.00 square miles (15.5 km2) (or 1.47%) is water. The county is a rough square with the sides roughly 20 miles (30 km) long.
Warren County was created by the first Ohio General Assembly in the Act of March 24, 1803, which also created Butler and Montgomery Counties. The act defined Warren County as "all that part of the county of Hamilton included within the following bounds, viz.: Beginning at the northeast corner of the county of Clermont, running thence west with the line of said county to the Little Miami; thence up the same with the meanders thereof to the north boundary of the first tier of sections in the second entire range of townships in the Miami Purchase; thence west to the northeast corner of Section No. 7 in the third township of the aforesaid range; thence north to the Great Miami; thence up the same to the middle of the fifth range of townships; thence east to the County line; thence with same south to the place of beginning." Originally this included land now in Clinton County as far east as Wilmington.
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Wayne County, Ohio
Wayne County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States, and is named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 114,520, which is an increase of 2.6% from 111,564 in 2000. Its county seat is Wooster.
The Wooster Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Wayne County.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 556.82 square miles (1,442.2 km2), of which 554.93 square miles (1,437.3 km2) (or 99.66%) is land and 1.89 square miles (4.9 km2) (or 0.34%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 111,564 people, 40,445 households, and 29,484 families residing in the county. The population density was 201 people per square mile (78/km²). There were 42,324 housing units at an average density of 76 per square mile (29/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 96.52% White, 1.57% Black or African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.66% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 0.84% from two or more races. 0.75% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 31.7% were of German, 13.9% American, 9.6% Irish, 9.0% English and 5.5% Swiss ancestry according to Census 2000. 91.5% spoke English, 3.2% German, 1.6% Dutch, 1.5% Pennsylvania Dutch and 1.2% Spanish as their first language.
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West Virginia
West Virginia (i/ˌwɛst vərˈdʒɪnjə/) is a state in the Appalachian region of the Eastern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east. West Virginia is the 41st most extensive and the 37th most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston.
West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions and broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War. The new state was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key Civil War border state. West Virginia was the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state, and was one of two states formed during the American Civil War (the other one being Nevada, which separated from Utah Territory).
The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the South. The northern panhandle extends adjacent to Pennsylvania and Ohio, with the West Virginia cities of Wheeling and Weirton just across the border from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, while Bluefield is less than 70 miles (110 km) from North Carolina. Huntington in the southwest is close to the states of Ohio and Kentucky, while Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry in the Eastern Panhandle region are considered to be a part of the Washington metropolitan area, in between the states of Maryland and Virginia. The unique position of West Virginia means that it is often included in several geographical regions, including the Mid-Atlantic, the Upland South, and the Southeastern United States. Notably, it is the only state that is entirely within the area served by the Appalachian Regional Commission; the area is commonly defined as "Appalachia".
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Wichita, Kansas
Wichita /ˈwɪtʃɨtɔː/ WICH-ə-taw is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area. As of 2011, the metro area had a population of 630,721.
The city was incorporated in 1870, based on the success of businessmen who came to hunt and trade with native populations. Its position on the Chisholm Trail made it a destination for cattle drives heading north to access railroads to eastern markets. In the 20th century, aircraft pioneers such as Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech and Bill Lear began projects that would lead to Wichita's nicknaming as the Air Capital of the World. The aircraft corporations Stearman, Cessna, Mooney and Beechcraft were all founded in Wichita in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft remain based in Wichita today, along with Learjet and Spirit AeroSystems, and both Airbus and Boeing maintain a workforce in Wichita. The city was also at one time the headquarters of the former Derby Oil Company, which was purchased by Coastal Corporation in 1988.
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Wood County, Ohio
Wood County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 125,488, which is an increase of 3.7% from 121,065 in 2000. Its county seat is Bowling Green. The county was named for Captain Eleazer D. Wood, the engineer for General William Henry Harrison's army, who built Fort Meigs in the War of 1812. Wood County is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 620.49 square miles (1,607.1 km2), of which 617.20 square miles (1,598.5 km2) (or 99.47%) is land and 3.29 square miles (8.5 km2) (or 0.53%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 121,065 people, 45,172 households, and 29,678 families residing in the county. The population density was 196 people per square mile (76/km²). There were 47,468 housing units at an average density of 77 per square mile (30/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 94.83% White, 1.27% Black or African American, 0.23% Native American, 1.03% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.18% from two or more races. 3.33% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 36.3% were of German, 9.9% American, 8.2% English, 8.0% Irish and 5.8% Polish ancestry according to Census 2000.
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Wyandot County, Ohio
Wyandot County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 22,615, which is a decrease of 1.3% from 22,908 in 2000. Its county seat is Upper Sandusky. Its name comes from the Wyandot Indians and is variously translated from their language as "around the plains" and "dwellers on the peninsula".
According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 407.55 square miles (1,055.5 km2), of which 406.86 square miles (1,053.8 km2) (or 99.83%) is land and 0.69 square miles (1.8 km2) (or 0.17%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 22,908 people, 8,882 households, and 6,270 families residing in the county. The population density was 56 people per square mile (22/km²). There were 9,324 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile (9/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.91% White, 0.14% Black or African American, 0.08% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.74% from other races, and 0.62% from two or more races. 1.46% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 45.6% were of German, 19.5% American, 7.0% English and 6.9% Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.
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A. O. Scott
Anthony Oliver Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American journalist and critic. He is a chief film critic for The New York Times, along with Manohla Dargis.
Scott was born to two historians. His mother, Joan Wallach Scott, is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His father, Donald Scott, is a professor of American history at The City University of New York (CUNY). He is also a great nephew of the actor Eli Wallach.
Scott attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, including Classical High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in literature.
He has a son named Ezra and a daughter named Carmen.
Scott began his career at The New York Review of Books, where he served as an assistant to Robert B. Silvers. He then served as book critic for Newsday, and also as a contributor to The New York Review of Books and Slate magazine.
He joined The New York Times' Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement from film criticism. (Maslin continues to review genre fiction for the paper.) In 2004, he became a chief critic, following Elvis Mitchell's departure from the Times. He also, along with other film critics of the Times, hosts a video podcast on the subject of film, called Critics' Picks.
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Adrienne Miller
Adrienne Miller (born 1972) is an American writer. From 1997 to 2005, she was the fiction editor of Esquire.
Adrienne Miller was born in 1972 in Columbus, Ohio. She lived in a small farming community surrounded by silos and cornfields until she was nine years old. At nine, her parents moved to a suburb of Akron, Ohio.
She moved to New York City, New York in the spring of 1994, a week before her college graduation. She worked at GQ, as an editorial assistant, then as an assistant editor. In 1997, she became the literary editor of Esquire, a position she held until leaving in 2005. In 2006, that position was filled by Tom Chiarella.
Her first novel, The Coast of Akron, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the summer of 2005.
During the fall semester of 2009, she took up a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences where she taught a writing seminar on Russian author Vladimir Nabokov and Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The class on Nabokov was widely acknowledged as one of the greatest writing seminars to have ever been taught at Penn.
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Ara Parseghian
Ara Raoul Parseghian (born May 21, 1923) is a former American football player and coach of Armenian descent. He served as the head football coach at Miami University (1951–1955), Northwestern University (1956–1963), and the University of Notre Dame (1964–1974), compiling a career college football record of 170–58–6. During his 11 seasons as head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, known popularly as "the Era of Ara," Parseghian tallied a mark of 95–17–4 record for a .836 winning percentage. His teams of 1966 and 1973 won national titles. Parseghian was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1980.
After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Parseghian played halfback at Miami University. He was drafted in the 13th round of the 1947 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but did not attempt to make the roster and later signed with the Cleveland Browns. He played running back and defensive back during 1948 and 1949 before an injury ended his playing career. With the Browns he had 44 carries for 166 yards, three receptions for 33 yards, scored two touchdowns, and intercepted one pass.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (
i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
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Bill W.
William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), an international mutual aid fellowship with over two million members belonging to 100,800 groups of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety. Following AA's Twelfth Tradition of anonymity, Wilson is commonly known as "Bill W." or "Bill." After Wilson's death in 1971 his full name was included in obituaries.
Wilson's lifelong sobriety began December 11, 1934. Wilson suffered from episodes of depression, the most serious of these between 1944 and 1955. In 1955 Wilson turned over control of AA to a board of trustees. Wilson died of emphysema complicated by pneumonia in 1971. In 1999 Time Magazine listed Wilson in the top 20 of the Time 100: Heroes and Icons of the 20th century.
Wilson was born on November 26, 1895, in East Dorset, Vermont, at his parents' home and business, the Mount Aeolus Inn and Tavern. His paternal grandfather, William Wilson was an alcoholic who never drank after a conversion experience on Mount Aeolus. Both of Wilson's parents abandoned their child (his father never returned from a purported business trip, and his mother left to study osteopathic medicine). Bill and his sister were cared for by their maternal grandparents, Fayette Griffith and Ella Griffith, in their house. As a teen, Wilson showed determination, once spending months designing and carving a working boomerang. After initial difficulties, Wilson became the school's football team's captain and the principal violinist of its orchestra. Wilson also underwent a serious depression at the age of seventeen following the death of his first love, Bertha Bamford, from complications of surgery.
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Butch Reynolds
Harry "Butch" Reynolds (born June 8, 1964) is an American former track and field athlete who competed in the 400 meter dash. He held the world record for the event for eleven years with his personal best time of 43.29 seconds set in 1988. That year he was the silver medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics (behind Steve Lewis) and a relay gold medalist. He was banned for drug use for two years by the IAAF, following an unsuccessful legal appeal.
On his competitive return he became the 1993 World Indoor Champion and won two successive 400 m silver medals at the World Championships in Athletics. He also enjoyed success with the 4×400 meter relay team, winning the world title three times in his career with the United States (1987, 1993, 1995). His team's time of 2:54.29 minutes at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics is the current world record. Reynolds remains the second fastest of all-time in the 400 m after Michael Johnson.
Reynolds was born in Akron, Ohio. On August 17, 1988 he set a 400 meters world record with 43.29 seconds, smashing Lee Evans' 19-years-and-10-months old world record by 0.57 seconds. This record stood for eleven years and was broken by Michael Johnson (43.18) in August 1999—the current world record. Reynolds remains the second fastest of all-time over the distance and Olympic champions Jeremy Wariner, Quincy Watts and LaShawn Merritt are the only others to have come within a half a second of his best mark.
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Chrissie Hynde
Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde (born 7 September 1951Akron, Ohio) is an American musician best known as the leader of the rock/new wave band the Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history.
Hynde is the daughter of a part-time secretary and a Yellow Pages manager. She graduated from Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio. She stated that "I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind."
Hynde was for some time interested in hippie counterculture, eastern mysticism, and vegetarianism. While attending Kent State University's Art School for three years, she joined a band called Sat. Sun. Mat., which included Mark Mothersbaugh, later of Devo (Hynde was on the campus during the infamous Kent State shootings; she knew Jeffrey Miller, one of those killed[citation needed].)
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Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960), known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he won for It Happened One Night (1934) and was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Later movies included Run Silent, Run Deep, a submarine war film, and his final film, The Misfits (1961), which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe, also in her last screen appearance. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time. He was nicknamed 'The King of Hollywood.'
Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time. Joan Crawford, who was his favorite actress to work with, was partnered with Gable in eight films, Myrna Loy worked with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner in three each. In the mid-1930s, Gable was often named the top male movie star, and second only to the top box-office draw of all, Shirley Temple.
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David McLean (actor)
David McLean (b. May 19, 1922, Akron, Ohio – d. October 12, 1995, Culver City, California) was an American film and television actor, best known for appearing in many Marlboro television and print advertisements, starting in the early 1960s.
McLean was born as Eugene Joseph Huth in Akron, Ohio. In addition to his work for Marlboro, McLean also starred as the title character in the short-lived 1960 television series, Tate, and appeared in numerous television series and feature films in the 1960s and '70s. He appeared in the TV series Laramie twice, first in 1962 in the episode "A Grave For Cully Brown" as Cully Brown, and in 1963 as Marshal Branch McGary, in the episode "The Marshals." In 1966 he appeared in an episode of the long running western The Virginian. He later guest starred in other TV series, including Bonanza. He was also a fine woodworker and artist.
A lifelong smoker, McLean started suffering from emphysema in 1985, and had a tumor removed in 1994. McLean's libertarian bent prevented him from pursuing a direct suit against Phillip Morris, but he did become an anti-smoking advocate. At a meeting of stockholders of Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro, McLean requested they limit their advertising.[citation needed]
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Don Plusquellic
Donald L. Plusquellic (born July 3, 1949) is the current mayor of Akron, Ohio. First elected in 1987, he became the 59th Mayor of Akron after previously serving 13 years on Akron City Council. Plusquellic is currently serving his sixth term, making him the longest-serving mayor of the city.
He graduated from Akron's Kenmore High School, studied at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, and graduated from Bowling Green State University School of Business.
He later received his JD from the University of Akron School of Law, and went into private practice until he was elected Mayor in 1987.
He has a son named David, a daughter Michelle, as well as four grandchildren.
He was the President of the United States Conference of Mayors during 2004. Plusquellic currently serves as vice president of the International Mayors for Peace organization. He is well known as an architect of the Joint Economic Development District (JEDD) program in Ohio, and he is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition is co-chaired by Boston, Massachusetts Mayor Thomas Menino, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Columbus, Ohio Mayor Michael B. Coleman.
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Elizabeth Franz
Elizabeth Franz (born June 18, 1941) is an American stage and television actress.
Franz was born Betty Jean Frankovich in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of a factory worker.
On the stage, Franz has won a Tony Award, for her role as Linda Loman in the 1999 production of Death of a Salesman, which also earned her nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards, and she won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award, Boston's Eliot Norton Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award for a tour of the same production. She has also won an Obie Award and Drama Desk nomination for her role in the 1980 Off-Broadway production Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and the Lucille Lortel Award for the 2007 production of Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher at the Vineyard Theatre in New York. Franz has also been nominated two other times for a Tony Award, for 1983's Brighton Beach Memoirs and 2002's Morning's at Seven, for which she also received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations. In 2004 and 2005, Franz appeared at the Royal National Theatre in London, in the Sam Shepard play Buried Child. She has starred in numerous Off-Broadway and regional theater productions, including the world premiere of Kelly Masterson's Against the Rising Sea, the American premiere of Frank McGuinness's Bird Sanctuary, Long Day's Journey into Night with Sam Waterston, Autumn Garden, The Glass Menagerie, The Cripple of Inishman, The Comedy of Errors, Minutes from the Blue Route, Madwoman of Chaillot, Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, The Matchmaker, The Wizard of Oz, Great Expectations, The Model Apartment, and Woman in Mind. In 2003 she received the Dramatist Guild Fund's Lifetime Achievement in the Theater award.
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Ferdinand Schumacher
Ferdinand Schumacher (1822–1908), aka The Oatmeal King, was a German immigrant, an American entrepreneur and one of the founders of companies which merged to become the Quaker Oats Company.
Ferdinand Schumacher was born in Celle, Hanover, Germany March 30, 1822, son of a merchant. He completed high school locally, and apprenticed in the grocery business. He pursued this, and clerked in a manufacturing business until age 28, when he and his brother Otto emigrated to the United States. He farmed for two years and established a grocery trade in Akron, Ohio in 1852. In 1857, he rented water power on the Ohio Canal in northwest Akron to power a mill for production of oatmeal. In 1858 he added equipment for pearling barley. He continued adding to his plant, and introduced steam power in 1875.
Ferdinand Schumacher married his cousin, Hermine Schumacher, in 1851, and had two children. He was active in the temperence movement, and was strongly for prohibition. He supported the erection of many churches.
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Frank Dicopoulos
Frank Dicopoulos (born January 3, 1957) is an American actor. He is the oldest of three children. Dicopoulos played the role of Frank Achilles Cooper Jr. on Guiding Light, a character he has played since 1987, until the show's cancellation on September 18, 2009.
Born in Akron, Ohio to Catherine and Harry Dicopoulos, Frank Dicopoulos majored in psychology and minored in art and drama at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He was active in football, basketball, and lacrosse, and he also set a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III track record in high hurdles. At first he thought of becoming an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine. But then he enrolled in drama courses – and became hooked.
Following college graduation, he moved to Texas. After managing a tire store in Houston and working as an auto mechanic, he began posing for print photography ads and doing television commercials. In a nationwide talent search in Dallas, he became one of four finalists out of 770 candidates to screen-test for the Larry Wilcox replacement role on the television series CHiPs. Although he did not get the job, he did get a small film part and had the lead in an MTV video documentary called Wild Rides, narrated by Matt Dillon. He also hosted On the Move for ESPN and the Miss Teen America Pageant in Dallas.
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Frank Seiberling
Franklin Augustus Seiberling (October 1859 – August 1955) was an American inventor and founder. He is most famous for founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber Company in 1921. He also built Stan Hywet Hall, a Tudor Revival mansion, now a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum.
Son of an Ohio entrepreneur, Seiberling spent two years attending Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, before joining the J. F. Seiberling Company, his father’s farm machinery manufacturing business, working there as secretary and treasurer. His father, John Seiberling, founder of that Akron company, invented one of the first reaping machines. While working for the company, Seiberling invented a twine binder which tied grain bundles with a bow knot.
Many businesses failed in the panics of the 1890s, including the street railway company owned by Seiberling's father. In 1898, he was jobless, nearing 40, with a wife and three children. Seiberling learned of the availability of an old strawboard factory in East Akron, which he purchased, together with the 7 acres (28,000 m2) it stood on, for $13,500. He borrowed $3,500 for a down payment from a brother-in-law, Lucius C. Miles,, who would become the company's third president in 1900. In a few days he had decided what business he would go into, picked a name, and was selling stock. The business would be rubber; the company would be named for Charles Goodyear, the discoverer of vulcanization, who had died penniless almost 40 years before.
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Gary Leitzell
Gary Leitzell is the current mayor of the city of Dayton, Ohio.
Leitzell was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1961. His father was a former member of the U.S. Air Force who worked in a steel mill; his mother was a British overseas bride. Leitzell moved as a child to Chippenham, England in 1970, where he attended a public grammar school. Leitzell graduated from the University of London with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1982 and returned to the United States to reacquaint himself with a father whom he had not seen in twelve years. Leitzell then worked in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in several sales and sales management positions until 1994. After two layoffs and one merger within the first ten years of his entering the corporate workforce, he made the decision to pursue a hobby-related business (miniature painting) in 1994, a decision that allowed him the opportunity to travel throughout the United States. In late 1994, he moved to Dayton, Ohio.
In Dayton Leitzell became involved with the Southeast Priority board in 1999. He was elected to chair the board in 2008 and 2009 and was the president of his neighborhood association for six terms.
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George Costanza
George Louis Costanza is a character in the American television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Jason Alexander. He has variously been described as a "short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man" (by Elaine Benes and Costanza himself), "Lord of the Idiots" (by Costanza himself), and as "the greatest sitcom character of all time". He is friends with Jerry Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer, and Elaine Benes. George appears in every episode except for "The Pen" (third season). The character was originally based on Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, but surnamed after Jerry Seinfeld's real-life New York friend, Mike Costanza.
George is the son of Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) and Estelle Costanza (Estelle Harris). Though he never made an appearance on the show, George has mentioned twice that he has a brother, but also often says he is an only child. Lloyd Braun was the other son his parents wanted. George's best friend Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) described Frank and Estelle as "psychopaths", and said in "The Chinese Woman" that, if they had divorced when George was young, he "could have been normal". George also describes himself as the result of his parents having stayed together.
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German American
German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry and comprise about 50 million people, or 17% of the U.S. population, the country's largest self-reported ancestral group.California, Texas and Pennsylvania have the largest numbers of German origin, although upper Midwestern states, including Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, have the highest proportion of German Americans at over one-third.
None of the historical German states had overseas colonies, so not until the 1680s did the first significant groups of German immigrants arrive in the British colonies, settling primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. Immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with some eight million arrivals from Germany. They were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Europe by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others simply for the chance to start fresh in the New World. The arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where "Germania"—German-speaking districts—soon emerged.
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Gorilla Jones
William Landon Jones (1906–1982) known as "Gorilla" Jones, was an American boxer and twice NBA Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World. Jones was never knocked out although he himself won by 52 knockouts out of 101 wins over 141 total fights.
African American, Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 12, 1906. He dropped out of school but eventually started boxing at age 18. He was 1.75m (5' 9") tall and weighed 145 pounds.
Jones turned professional in 1923 with Stephen "Suey" Welch as manager and trained with Joe Stanley. He won the vacant National Boxing Association World Middleweight Title with a win over Oddone Piazza in 1925. He lost the belt later that year to Frenchman Marcel Thil through disqualification. But his greatest success came in 1932 when he twice won the NBA Middleweight Boxing Championship of the World (against Oddone Piazza and Young Terry). In 1933 he lost the IBU Middleweight World Championship against Marcel Thil and won the NBA Middleweight Championship of America against Sammy "Kid" Slaughter by KO.
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Harvey Firestone
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was an American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires.
Firestone was born on the Columbiana, Ohio farm built by his paternal grandfather. He was the second of Benjamin and Catherine (née Flickinger) Firestone's three sons; Benjamin had a son and a daughter by his first wife.
Firestone's paternal great-great-great grandfather, Nicholas Hans Feuerstein, immigrated from Berg/Alsace/France, in 1753, and settled in Pennsylvania. Three of Nicholas's sons - including Harvey's great-great grandfather, Johan Nicholas - changed their surname to "Firestone". Firestone's birthplace was moved years later to Greenfield Village, a 90-acre (360,000 m2) historical site founded by Henry Ford.
On 20 November 1895, Firestone married Idabelle Smith, and had seven children. Andrew Firestone, William Clay Ford, Jr. (the son of Henry Ford's grandson William and Harvey and Idabelle's granddaughter Martha), and Nick Firestone are among their great-grandchildren.
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Helen Vendler
Helen Hennessy Vendler (born April 30, 1933 in Boston, MA) is a leading American critic of poetry.
Vendler has written books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She has been a professor of English at Harvard University since 1984; between 1981 and 1984 she taught alternating semesters at Harvard and Boston University. In 1990 she was appointed to an endowed chair as the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor. She is the first woman to hold this position. She has also taught at Cornell University, Swarthmore and Smith Colleges, and Boston University. She married (then later divorced) the philosopher Zeno Vendler with whom she had one son. In 1992 Vendler received a Litt. D. from Bates College.[citation needed]
Vendler did not major in English as an undergraduate. She earned an A.B. in chemistry at Emmanuel College. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for mathematics, before earning her Ph.D. in English & American Literature from Harvard.[citation needed] She has also been a judge for the Pultizer Prize and the National Book award, in poetry.
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Henry Arthur Callis
Henry Arthur Callis, M.D. (January 14, 1887 – November 12, 1974) was one of the seven founders (commonly referred to as The Seven Jewels) of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. Callis co-authored the Fraternity name with Eugene Jones and became the only Jewel to become General President of the fraternity. Callis assisted in the organizations of several chapters, including Theta Chapter (1910) in Chicago and later, Xi Lambda Chapter (1924), also in Chicago.
He became a physician and worked as a medical consultant at the Veterans' Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama. He was Professor of Medicine at Howard University and a frequent contributor to medical journals. He became the second husband of the poet Alice Dunbar, but their marriage ended in divorce.
Alpha Phi Alpha's Eta Tau Lambda chapter created Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Inc. to address housing for low-income families, individuals and senior citizens in Akron, Ohio. In 1971, Alpha Homes received an $11.5 million grant from HUD to begin groundbreaking on Channelwood Village with the Henry Arthur Callis Tower as its centerpiece.
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Irish American
Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,278,332 Americans—estimated at 11.9% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Roughly another 3.5 million (or about another 1.2% of Americans) identified more specifically with Scotch-Irish ancestry. The Irish diaspora population in the United States is roughly 6 times the modern population of Ireland.
The only self-reported ancestral group larger than Irish Americans is German Americans. The Irish are widely dispersed in terms of geography, and demographics. Irish American political leaders have played a major role in local and national politics since before the American Revolutionary War: eight Irish Americans signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and 22 American Presidents, from Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama, have been at least partly of Irish ancestry. (See "American Presidents with Irish ancestry" below.)
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Italian American
An Italian American (Italian: Italoamericano singular, Italian: Italoamericani plural), is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship. Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States (not including American ethnicity, an ethnonym used by many in the United States; overall, Italian Americans rank seventh, behind German, Irish, African American, English, American and Mexican).
About 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the U.S. from 1820 to 2004. The greatest surge of immigration, which occurred in the period between 1880 and 1920, alone brought more than 4 million Italians to America. About 80% of the Italian immigrants came from Southern Italy, especially from Sicily, Campania, Abruzzo and Calabria. This was a largely agricultural and overpopulated region, where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign misrule, and the economic measures imposed on the South after Italian unification in 1861 . After unification the Italian government initially encouraged emigration of landless peasants to relieve economic pressures in the South. In the U.S., most Italians began their new lives as unskilled, manual workers in Eastern cities, mining camps and in agriculture. Italian Americans gradually moved from the lower rungs of the economic scale in 1890-1910 to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. By 1990, more than 65% of Italian Americans were managerial, professional, or white-collar workers. The Italian-American communities have often been characterized by strong ties with family, the Catholic Church, fraternal organizations and political parties. Today, over 17.8 million Americans claim Italian ancestry.
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James Ingram
James Ingram (born February 16, 1952, Akron, Ohio) is an American soul musician. He is best known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. Additionally, he is a producer and songwriter.
Born in 1952, Ingram lived with his mother and father until he was 10, then moved in with his grandmother.
In 1981, Ingram provided the vocals to "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways" on Quincy Jones's album The Dude. He won a Grammy award for best R&B vocal performance for his work on this album. Ingram's debut album, It's Your Night, appeared in 1983, including the ballad "There's No Easy Way." He also worked with other notable R&B artists such as Ray Charles, Anita Baker, Viktor Lazlo, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, and Kenny Rogers. In October, 1990, he scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the love ballad "I Don't Have the Heart", from his It's Real album.
But Ingram was best known throughout the decade for his hit collaborations. He went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Feb. 1983 with Patti Austin on "Baby, Come to Me", a song made popular on TV's General Hospital. A second Austin–Ingram duet, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?", was featured in the movie Best Friends and earned an Oscar nomination. A few years later, he won a 1985 Grammy Award for "Yah Mo B There", a duet with Michael McDonald. And he teamed up with Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes for the Top 40 ballad "What About Me?" in 1984. In 1985, he participated in the charity single "We Are the World".
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John R. Buchtel
John R. Buchtel was an American businessman and philanthropist, most famous for being the founding figure of Buchtel College, the predecessor of the University of Akron. Buchtel High School, a public high school in Akron, Ohio, is also named in his honor.
Buchtel was born on January 18, 1820, in Stark County, Ohio. He began his business interests in agriculture, owning a large amount of farmland in Stark County and in the state of Indiana. After working as an employee of Ball, Aultman, and Company, he led the development of a new manufacturing plant of the company in Akron, which became known as the Buckeye Mower and Reaper Company. The firm soon became independent, and Buchtel served as Buckeye Mower's first president. Expanding his interests, he became the general manager of the Akron Iron Company. Later, the Akron Iron Company merged with several other firms, creating the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company, with Buchtel serving as one of the vice-presidents. He was also an early investor in the rubber company of Dr. Benjamin F. Goodrich. Suffering a stroke in 1887, he was left crippled and unable to continue his work. He died on May 23, 1892.
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Judith Resnik
Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger during the launch of mission STS-51-L.
Resnik was the second American female astronaut, logging 145 hours in orbit. She was a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and had a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. The IEEE Judith Resnik Award for space engineering is named in her honor.
Judith Arlene Resnik was born to Sara and Marvin, an optometrist, in Akron, Ohio; her brother Charles was born four years later. She attended Hebrew school. A graduate of Firestone High School in 1966, she excelled in mathematics and played classical piano. While at Firestone she achieved a perfect SAT score, the sole female to do so that year. She received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University in 1970, the year she married fellow student Michael Oldak. They divorced in 1974. In 1977 Resnik was awarded a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland.
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LeBron James
LeBron Raymone James (/ləˈbrɒn/; born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "King James", he was a three-time "Mr. Basketball" of Ohio in high school, and was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar while a sophomore at St. Vincent – St. Mary High School. He was selected with the number one pick in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Listed as a small forward, James has set numerous youngest player records since joining the league. He was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2003–04, was named the NBA Most Valuable Player in 2009, 2010, and 2012 and has been both an All-NBA selection and an All-Star every season since 2005. In 2010, a much-publicized free agency process ended with James signing with the Miami Heat.
James led the Cleveland Cavaliers to consecutive playoff appearances from 2006 through 2010. In 2007, the Cavaliers advanced to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history, but lost to the San Antonio Spurs. In 2011, James and the Miami Heat advanced to the NBA Finals but lost to the Dallas Mavericks. James has been a member of the USA national team, winning a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics and gold at the 2008 Olympics.
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Mark Mallory
Mark Mallory (born April 2, 1962) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who is currently serving as the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. His election marked a new era for City Hall as the first two-term Mayor under the City’s new Stronger-Mayor system, the first directly-elected black Mayor, and the first Mayor in over 70 years who did not come from City Council.
Prior to his election in 2005, he served as assistant Minority Leader in the Ohio Senate. He won a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1994, replacing his father who retired after serving the district for nearly 30 years. He served in the Ohio House from 1995 to 1998, when he was elected to the Senate.
In November 1998, Mark Mallory was elected to represent the 9th Senate District in the Ohio General Assembly, and in 2002 was elected to his second four-year term. He was the Assistant Minority Leader for the Senate Democratic Caucus during his seven years in the General Assembly. In 2003, Senator Mallory passed a resolution in the General Assembly ratifying the 14th Amendment, 135 years after it was amended to the US Constitution.
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Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan; April 17, 1964) is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor. Originally from Ohio, Keenan spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After serving in the Army in the early 1980s, he attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1988 to pursue a career in interior design and set construction. He formed the band Tool with Adam Jones shortly thereafter.
Keenan is best known as the lead singer of the multi-platinum rock bands Tool and A Perfect Circle with whom he has released four and two studio albums, respectively. In 2003 he created Puscifer as a side project, financing and releasing its first studio album in October 2007. Since rising to fame, Keenan has been a noted recluse, although he does emerge to support charitable causes.
In addition to his music career, he has performed improvisational stand-up comedy and ventured into acting. He is the current owner of Merkin Vineyards and the associated winery, Caduceus Cellars, and has part ownership of Stronghold Vineyards, all located in Arizona, where he lives. Among other business ventures, he is a partner in the Los Angeles restaurant Cobras & Matadors, and owns a produce market and an organic market in Cornville, Arizona, the latter featuring a tasting room for his wines as well as a food court.
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Michael B. Coleman
Michael B. Coleman (born November 18, 1954) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, the 52nd and current mayor of Columbus, Ohio. He is the first African-American mayor of Ohio's capital.
Coleman was born in Indianapolis, but moved to Toledo at an early age. After growing up in the Toledo area, Coleman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Cincinnati and a Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law. Coleman was a member of the Columbus City Council from 1992–1999, and served as president of this city council from 1997-1999. In 1998, Coleman was the running mate for gubernatorial candidate Lee Fisher. Coleman ran for and won the Columbus mayorship in 1999 and was re-elected unopposed November 4, 2003.
In February 2005, Coleman announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio in the 2006 gubernatorial race, but subsequently dropped out of the race on November 29, 2005, citing heavy work and family obligations. In 2007, Mayor Coleman won a third term as mayor of Columbus. In 2011, he was re-elected for a fourth term.
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Michael Bell (mayor)
Michael P. Bell is the current Mayor of Toledo, Ohio taking office on January 4, 2010. Bell previously served as Toledo Fire Chief and State Fire Marshal.
In 2009, Bell ran as an independent in Toledo's mayoral election. He ran against attorney Keith Wilkowski, a Democrat. Bell defeated Wilkowski on the November 3 election by a margin of only 2% and was sworn in on January 4, 2010. He is the second African-American mayor in the city's history.
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Michael Symon
Michael D. Symon (born September 19, 1969) is a James Beard Foundation Award-winning American chef,restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is seen regularly on Food Network on shows such as Iron Chef America, Food Feuds, and The Best Thing I Ever Ate, as well as Cook Like an Iron Chef on the Cooking Channel and The Chew on ABC. He has also made numerous contributions to magazines and periodicals such as Bon Appétit, Esquire, Food Arts, Gourmet, Saveur and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Symon is credited as helping to "save" the restaurant scene in Downtown Cleveland. He is the chef and owner of number of restaurants in the Greater Cleveland area, including his flagship Lola, Lolita, and The B Spot. Additionally, he owns Michael Symon's Roast (also known as Roast) in Detroit, Michigan. Symon describes his cooking as "meat-centric."
Symon was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is of Greek, Italian, and Eastern European ancestry. He was raised in North Olmsted, Ohio, attending St. Richard School in North Olmsted and St. Edward High School in Lakewood, graduating in 1987. A wrestler, he broke an arm during practice and was unable to continue competing. He took a part time job at Gepetto's Ribs on Warren Rd. as a cook.
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Mildred Burke
Mildred Bliss (August 5, 1915-February 18, 1989) was an American professional wrestler, who wrestled under the name Mildred Burke. She is a member of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame as well as the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. Her heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, when she held the World Women's Championship for almost twenty years. Burke started out in 1935, wrestling men at carnivals. She was managed by her second husband, promoter Billy Wolfe.
Mildred Burke, aged 15, began to work as a waitress on the Zuni Indian Reservation in Gallup, New Mexico. She lived there for three years, before leaving for Kansas City after agreeing to marry her boyfriend. He took her to a wrestling event, which sparked her interest in the sport. Burke, who was pregnant at the time, later persevered.
Prior to wrestling, she was an office stenographer by day, had outstanding muscle development, and was hoping to become a wrestler. Locally, Billy Wolfe was training aspiring women wrestlers. At first, Wolfe did not want to train Burke and instructed a male wrestler to body slam her, so she would stop asking Wolfe to train her. Burke, however, body slammed the man instead, which resulted in Wolfe agreeing to train her. Wolfe tutored her and realized that she was the prospect for which he was waiting. The close proximity of their training resulted in a relationship and ultimately marriage. Changing her name to Mildred Burke, she defeated Clara Mortenson for the Women’s championship in January 1937.
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Nate Thurmond
Nathaniel "Nate" Thurmond (born July 25, 1941, in Akron, Ohio) is a retired American basketball player. Dominant at both center and power forward, he was a seven-time All-Star and the first player in NBA history to record an official quadruple-double.
Thurmond remains one of the greatest rebounders and shot blockers ever, named both a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
Known to fans as "Nate the Great", Thurmond has had his #42 jersey retired by both the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers franchises.
He played in high school with another future NBA star, Gus Johnson, at Akron Central. Their powerful team went undefeated before losing to Middletown, led by Jerry Lucas, in the Ohio state high school playoffs. Passing on a scholarship offer to Ohio State, to avoid becoming Lucas's backup there, the 6'11" Thurmond chose Bowling Green. He was named a first-team All-American by The Sporting News in 1963, and was drafted by the San Francisco Warriors later that year.
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Non-Hispanic Whites
Non-Hispanic Whites or White, Not Hispanic or Latino are people in the United States, as defined by the Census Bureau, who are of the White race and are not of Hispanic or Latino origin/ethnicity. Hence the designation is exclusive in the sense that it defines who is not included as opposed to who is. Non-Hispanic Whites are a subset of White Americans, the other being White Hispanic and Latino Americans.
The vast majority of Non-Hispanic Whites trace their origins to Europe. A small number have origin in North Africa or the Middle East. In the U.S., this population was first derived from British and French colonization, as well as settlement by other Europeans, such as the Germans and Dutch that began in the 17th century (see History of the United States). Continued growth since the early 1800s is attributed to massive immigration from European countries, mainly Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Russia, among other nations. At an estimated 199.3 million in 2009, Non-Hispanic Whites compose a solid majority of the United States population.
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Pretenders (band)
The Pretenders are an English–American rock band formed in Hereford, England in March 1978. The original band comprised initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). The band has experienced drug-related deaths of the members, and numerous subsequent personnel changes have taken place over the years, with Hynde as the sole continual member.
Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio attended Kent State University at the time of the Kent State shootings in 1970. She moved to London in 1973, working at the weekly music paper NME and at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothes store. She was involved with early versions of The Clash and The Damned and played in short-lived bands such as Masters of the Backside and The Moors Murderers. The Pretenders formed in 1978 after Dave Hill at Anchor Records heard some demos of Hynde's music. He arranged a rehearsal studio in Denmark Street, where a 3-piece band consisting of Hynde, Mal Hart on bass (he had played with Hynde and Steve Strange in The Moors Murderers), and Phil Taylor of Motörhead on drums played a selection of Hynde's original songs. Dave Hill was impressed and arranged a day at Studio 51 to record another demo. Although it was rough, he felt he had seen and heard enough "star potential" to suggest that Hynde form a more permanent band to record for his new label, Real Records. Hynde then formed a band composed of Pete Farndon (who was later associated romantically with Hynde) on bass, James Honeyman-Scott on guitar, and Gerry Mcilduff on drums. This band, then without a name, recorded five tracks at Regents Park Studio in July 1978, including "Stop Your Sobbing." Shortly thereafter, Gerry Mcilduff was replaced on drums by Martin Chambers, and Hynde named the band "Pretenders" after The Platters song "The Great Pretender."
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Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber. He operated in the Midwest and West South Central States, and his criminal exploits gained heavy press coverage in the 1930s. Like most other prominent outlaws of that era, he was killed by policemen. He remains a familiar figure in American popular culture, sometimes seen as notorious, but at other times viewed as a tragic figure, partly a victim of hard times.
Floyd was born in Bartow County, Georgia. He grew up in Oklahoma after moving there with his family from Georgia in 1911, and spent considerable time in nearby Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. He was first arrested at age 18 after he stole $3.50 in coins from a local post office. Three years later he was arrested for a payroll robbery on September 16, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri and was sentenced to five years in prison, of which he served three and a half.
When paroled, Floyd vowed that he would never see the inside of another prison. Entering into partnerships with more established criminals in the Kansas City underworld, he committed a series of bank robberies over the next several years; it was during this period that he acquired the nickname "Pretty Boy." According to one account, when the payroll master targeted in a robbery described the three perpetrators to the police, he referred to Floyd as "a mere boy — a pretty boy with apple cheeks." Like his contemporary Baby Face Nelson, Floyd hated his nickname.
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Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene ("buckyballs"), and was a leading advocate of nanotechnology and its many applications, including its use in creating strong but lightweight materials as well as its potential to fight cancer.
Smalley, the youngest of 4 siblings, was born in Akron, Ohio, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.
Smalley attended Hope College before transferring to the University of Michigan where he received his B.S. in 1965. Between his studies, he worked in industry, where he developed his unique managerial style. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1973. He completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago, with Lennard Wharton and Donald Levy, where he was a pioneer in the development of supersonic beam laser spectroscopy.
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Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and author. From 1993–1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She was the first African American to be appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 out of the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999–2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004–2006.
Dove was born in Akron, Ohio to Ray Dove, the first African American chemist to work in the U.S. tire industry (as research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter. In 1970 Dove graduated from Buchtel High School as a Presidential Scholar, making her one of the 100 top American high school graduates that year. Later, Dove graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Miami University in 1973 and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977. In 1974 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
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Rosario Borgio
Rosario Giuseppe Borgio (January 18, 1861 – May 22, 1919) was an early Italian-American mobster establishing one of the first organized crime operations in the Midwest during the early 20th century.
Arriving in Akron, Ohio during the early 1900s, Rosario operated a successful general goods store (a front he used as a legitimate business as he soon began criminal operations in two backrooms of his store). Living above his store, Rosario claimed his home was "police proof", as the property was guarded by an extensive security system including alarms on both the front and back stairs, pits built into the stairs which held foot-long steel spikes, a solid steel door, and a large arsenal of weapons including shotguns, rifles, pistols, and submachine guns.
By the early 1910s, Borgio controlled the Black Hand operations (aimed primarily at the cities growing Italian community) as well as dominating illegal gambling and prostitution. Borgio had extensive political protection, with much of the city's politicians on the payroll; however, Akron's police force remained considerably free of bribery. In early 1918, Akron police began raiding Borgio's gambling den's and brothels, arresting both operations and clientele alike. Determined to drive Borgio out of the area, Borgio responded by holding a meeting in the fall of 1918. With all local Black Hand groups, Borgio decided to declare war on the Akron Police Force, offering a bounty of $250 on all police officers of the city.
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Simon Perkins
General Simon Perkins (September 17, 1771 - November 6, 1844) was an early settler, businessman and surveyor of the Western Reserve of Connecticut, which would later become northeast Ohio. He co-founded Akron, Ohio with Paul Williams in 1825. He served as a brigadier-general during the War of 1812.
Simon Perkins was born on September 17, 1771, in Norwich, Connecticut. He was the oldest son of Capt. Simon Perkins and Olive Douglas. His father died at age 41 in 1778 while serving in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. At a young age, Perkins learned how to survey and in 1795 he went to Oswego, New York where he surveyed and worked in land sales for three years. In late 1797, he was employed by the Erie Land Company to become the company's land agent in Ohio. The Erie Land Company was organized by General Moses Cleaveland and other members of the Connecticut Land Company. He surveyed the company's land holdings in 1798 and established his headquarters in Warren, Ohio, where he lived the rest of his life. He remained an agent of the Erie Land Company until 1831.
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth ( /soʊˈdʒɜrnər ˈtruːθ/; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, Truth tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
Truth was one of the 10 or 12 children born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree. James Baumfree was a slave captured from the Gold Coast in modern-day Ghana. Elizabeth Baumfree, also known as Mau-Mau Bet to children who knew her, was the daughter of African slaves from the Coast of Guinea. The Baumfree family were slaves of Colonel Hardenbergh. The Hardenbergh estate was in a hilly area called by the Dutch name Swartekill (just north of present-day Rifton), in the town of Esopus, New York, 95 miles north of New York City. After the colonel's death, ownership of the family slaves passed to his son, Charles Hardenbergh.
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Thurman Munson
Thurman Lee Munson (June 7, 1947 – August 2, 1979) was an American Major League Baseball catcher. He played his entire 11-year career for the New York Yankees (1969–1979). A perennial All-Star, Munson is the only Yankee ever to win both the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards.
Born in Akron, Ohio, Munson was selected as the fourth pick of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft. Munson hit over .300 in his two seasons in the Minor Leagues, establishing himself as a hot prospect. He became the starting catcher late in the 1969 season, when the Yankees were reestablishing themselves after a few losing seasons. Munson played his first complete season in 1970, becoming Rookie of the Year after hitting .302.
Considered the "heart and soul" of the Yankees, Munson became the first team captain since Lou Gehrig. He led the Yankees to three consecutive World Series, winning two of them.
Munson died at age 32 while practicing landing his Cessna Citation at Akron-Canton Airport. Munson suffered a broken neck as result of the crash and his cause of death was asphyxiation. His two companions escaped the burned aircraft.
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W.E.B. DuBois
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (pronounced /duːˈbɔɪz/ doo-BOYZ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in western Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a tolerant community and experienced little racism as a child. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the talented tenth and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.
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Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (/ˈwɛndl[unsupported input] ˈl[unsupported input]ɨs ˈwɪlki/; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for the president in 1940. A member of the liberal wing of the GOP, he crusaded against those domestic policies of the New Deal that he thought were inefficient and anti-business. Willkie, an internationalist, needed the votes of the large isolationist element, so he waffled on the bitterly debated issue of America's role in World War II, losing support from both sides. His opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1940 election with 55% of the popular vote and 85% of the electoral vote.
Afterward, Roosevelt found Willkie to be compatible politically with his plans and brought him aboard as an informal ambassador-at-large. Willkie criss-crossed the globe on the former army bomber The Gulliver, bringing home a vision of "One World" freed from imperialism and colonialism. "One World" was Willkie's travelogue of his travels and meetings of the then-Allies heads of state, as well as ordinary citizens and soldiers in regions such as Russia and Iran. His liberalism lost him supporters in the GOP and he dropped out of the 1944 race, then died of a heart attack. He never held political office.
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World War I
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (World War II), and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganised (Italy fought for the Allies), and expanded as more nations entered the war. Ultimately more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of enormous increases in lethality of weapons, thanks to new technology, without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes such as revolutions in the nations involved.
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Akron, OH Freeway & Street Tour
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- Duration: 7:08
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
This video takes us on a freeway and street tour in Akron.
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This video takes us on a freeway and street tour in Akron.
Real Streets & Hoods: vol.6 Akron, OH (East Akron, South Akron, West Akron)
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- Duration: 4:43
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Check Out History Of Tha Streetz - A True Story Of The American Streets In Every City: www.therealstreetz.com Check out all RNR Ent. Mixtapes at www.datpiff.com Akron Ohio hood 2 hood Real Steets & Hoods: Akron Ohio From North Side to East Akron to West Akron to South Akron. Howard St., Arlington St., W. Miller, W. Thornton, Vernon Odom, Hawkins Ave, Copley Rd, Rhodes Ave, Delia Ave, Brown St., South St., Johnston St. for more info or need a video or promotion contact tcmerkrnr@yahoo.co Instrumental provided by BeatBulletin & producer chill
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Check Out History Of Tha Streetz - A True Story Of The American Streets In Every City: www.therealstreetz.com Check out all RNR Ent. Mixtapes at www.datpiff.com Akron Ohio hood 2 hood Real Steets & Hoods: Akron Ohio From North Side to East Akron to West Akron to South Akron. Howard St., Arlington St., W. Miller, W. Thornton, Vernon Odom, Hawkins Ave, Copley Rd, Rhodes Ave, Delia Ave, Brown St., South St., Johnston St. for more info or need a video or promotion contact tcmerkrnr@yahoo.co Instrumental provided by BeatBulletin & producer chill
- published: 23 May 2012
- views: 7951
- author: tcmerkRNR
Abandoned Rolling Acres Mall, Rolling Acres/Akron, Ohio Footage 2009
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- Duration: 5:30
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
The gigantic Rolling Acres Mall has been shut down for about 4 years now. My dad does some demo/reconstruction work and he was offered anything he wanted inside the mall by the Demo company. I had the opportunity to ride my bike through the inside with my Camcorder. I didn't get any footage of the lower level. I was down there, but I couldn't take the bike. This once gorgeous late '70s mall has seen better days. Leaky roof has been the main source of problems. Also, thieves have stolen all the copper wiring so there is no possible way for the mall to be lit unless it was completely re-wired. Kinda creepy, with an eerie breeze throughout the whole place. Another freaky thing is that all the plants on the lower level are totally green. They are not fake. Totally healthy but overgrown. I think the roof is so leaky, the plants survive. Sears and JCpenny dpt. stores are still operating. I have no idea what's going to happen to the mall.
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The gigantic Rolling Acres Mall has been shut down for about 4 years now. My dad does some demo/reconstruction work and he was offered anything he wanted inside the mall by the Demo company. I had the opportunity to ride my bike through the inside with my Camcorder. I didn't get any footage of the lower level. I was down there, but I couldn't take the bike. This once gorgeous late '70s mall has seen better days. Leaky roof has been the main source of problems. Also, thieves have stolen all the copper wiring so there is no possible way for the mall to be lit unless it was completely re-wired. Kinda creepy, with an eerie breeze throughout the whole place. Another freaky thing is that all the plants on the lower level are totally green. They are not fake. Totally healthy but overgrown. I think the roof is so leaky, the plants survive. Sears and JCpenny dpt. stores are still operating. I have no idea what's going to happen to the mall.
- published: 10 Dec 2009
- views: 185238
- author: masbiturbo85
In Flight Video - Landing Akron, Ohio
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
A view from the cockpit while landing at the Akron Fulton airport on August 17, 2011. A clear, summer morning in northern Ohio. The airplane is a King Air 300. Watch for the large black hangar that dates from 1929. This is where several dirigibles were assembled for the US Navy. It continues in use to this day and is owned by Lockheed-Martin. It's been a while since I've produced one of these videos. Which I've previously titled "Fast Flight" due to having some sped-up video in each. I decided not to speed up any part of this one. And may simply drop that title from now on. Sped up or not. Also, I've figured out a simpler camera mounting rig. So I may produce these flying videos more often.
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A view from the cockpit while landing at the Akron Fulton airport on August 17, 2011. A clear, summer morning in northern Ohio. The airplane is a King Air 300. Watch for the large black hangar that dates from 1929. This is where several dirigibles were assembled for the US Navy. It continues in use to this day and is owned by Lockheed-Martin. It's been a while since I've produced one of these videos. Which I've previously titled "Fast Flight" due to having some sped-up video in each. I decided not to speed up any part of this one. And may simply drop that title from now on. Sped up or not. Also, I've figured out a simpler camera mounting rig. So I may produce these flying videos more often.
- published: 18 Aug 2011
- views: 3524
- author: basicbill1
GODS MISSION.akron ohio Time to wake up part 1
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- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
very powerful and something to think about.showing love to all are fallen members due to violence.
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very powerful and something to think about.showing love to all are fallen members due to violence.
- published: 22 Dec 2012
- views: 3051
- author: Bonethewiseone
Hope Classic 2012: Seton Academy (South Holland, IL) vs St Vincent-St Mary (Akron, Ohio)
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- Duration: 72:31
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
This is the Seton Academy (South Holland, IL) vs St Vincent-St Mary (Akron, Ohio), which was played on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at Struthers Fieldhouse during the Hope Classic: High School Basketball Showcase put on by the Hope Foundation of the Mahoning Valley. This is a non-profit organization that raises money for chronically/terminally ill children. This organization is entirely volunteer organization. More info at www.hopemv.org. This tv presentation is presented by Armstrong Cable.
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This is the Seton Academy (South Holland, IL) vs St Vincent-St Mary (Akron, Ohio), which was played on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at Struthers Fieldhouse during the Hope Classic: High School Basketball Showcase put on by the Hope Foundation of the Mahoning Valley. This is a non-profit organization that raises money for chronically/terminally ill children. This organization is entirely volunteer organization. More info at www.hopemv.org. This tv presentation is presented by Armstrong Cable.
- published: 24 Dec 2012
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- author: HopeFoundationofMV
Akron, Ohio - Downtown area .. nice visuals..
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- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
akron, ohio .. I grew up there.. not much there, however there is a good music scene, the music scene was much bigger back in 80s and 90s. It not much of a buckeye town, that a good thing. kind of progressive because of the music scene, and there are people there that go out out of the way to make akron cool. I live somewhere in michigan now.
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akron, ohio .. I grew up there.. not much there, however there is a good music scene, the music scene was much bigger back in 80s and 90s. It not much of a buckeye town, that a good thing. kind of progressive because of the music scene, and there are people there that go out out of the way to make akron cool. I live somewhere in michigan now.
- published: 17 Apr 2009
- views: 12470
- author: linkmonologue
Car Chase - Akron, Ohio (The Instructor 1983)- Part 1
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- Duration: 9:42
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Anyone familiar with Akron, Ohio should like this car chase from the movie "The Instructor". Chase stretches from Upper Deck, Waterloo Rd, Firestone Park, Downtown Akron, and the Valley. "From: donbendell I am the writer, producer, director, co-star, of the film. I directed all this and was doing some of the driving. Somebody said it was filmed in 1983, but it was not. It was shot in 1980, we did some re-shooting (the beginning of the film in Colorado in 1983) and it was released worldwide in 1983. It was sold to and shown in 164 countries and was out on Vestron video. Blessings, Don Bendell"
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Anyone familiar with Akron, Ohio should like this car chase from the movie "The Instructor". Chase stretches from Upper Deck, Waterloo Rd, Firestone Park, Downtown Akron, and the Valley. "From: donbendell I am the writer, producer, director, co-star, of the film. I directed all this and was doing some of the driving. Somebody said it was filmed in 1983, but it was not. It was shot in 1980, we did some re-shooting (the beginning of the film in Colorado in 1983) and it was released worldwide in 1983. It was sold to and shown in 164 countries and was out on Vestron video. Blessings, Don Bendell"
- published: 04 Jun 2007
- views: 45735
- author: Blimpcity11
Ohio: Akron Beauty Shop Defended by Armed Barber
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Cam Edwards talks to Terrance Duncan from Duncan's Barbershop in Akron, Ohio - For more information, go to: www.wkyc.com - NRA News - December 7, 2012 - www.NRANews.com
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Cam Edwards talks to Terrance Duncan from Duncan's Barbershop in Akron, Ohio - For more information, go to: www.wkyc.com - NRA News - December 7, 2012 - www.NRANews.com
- published: 08 Dec 2012
- views: 1120
- author: NRAVideos
Fly on the Goodyear Blimp over Akron, Ohio
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- Duration: 2:00
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Goodyear has flown passengers in its blimps for over fifty years without interruption (except for World War II), with no serious injuries. It's probably the safest form of air travel ever devised. Most flights, whether with passengers or cross-country, are at 1000-1500 feet. Goodyear likes to keep the ship close to the ground so that people can see it more easily. It has a maximum altitude, depending on the variables of the atmosphere, of about 5.000 feet. Beyond that height the air gets thinner and the helium expands, causing automatic safety valves to open. There are three based in the US: the Spirit of Goodyear, based in Akron, Ohio; the Spirit of Innovation based in Pompano Beach, Florida; and the Spirit of America based near Los Angeles. Goodyear also operates a blimp in China named The Navigator. Goodyear has operated as many as eight at a time since its first commercial ship, the Pilgrim, flew in 1925.
http://wn.com/Fly_on_the_Goodyear_Blimp_over_Akron,_Ohio
Goodyear has flown passengers in its blimps for over fifty years without interruption (except for World War II), with no serious injuries. It's probably the safest form of air travel ever devised. Most flights, whether with passengers or cross-country, are at 1000-1500 feet. Goodyear likes to keep the ship close to the ground so that people can see it more easily. It has a maximum altitude, depending on the variables of the atmosphere, of about 5.000 feet. Beyond that height the air gets thinner and the helium expands, causing automatic safety valves to open. There are three based in the US: the Spirit of Goodyear, based in Akron, Ohio; the Spirit of Innovation based in Pompano Beach, Florida; and the Spirit of America based near Los Angeles. Goodyear also operates a blimp in China named The Navigator. Goodyear has operated as many as eight at a time since its first commercial ship, the Pilgrim, flew in 1925.
- published: 28 Jul 2011
- views: 9523
- author: Javier Mota
Guys From Akron,Ohio Harrassed By Cops!? Father Gets Arrested In Front Of His Son
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- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Guys From Akron,Ohio Harrassed By Cops!? (Father Gets Arrested In Front Of His Son For Not Having A Collar On His Dog) I had to upload this video. This is not right!!!
http://wn.com/Guys_From_Akron,Ohio_Harrassed_By_Cops!?_Father_Gets_Arrested_In_Front_Of_His_Son
Guys From Akron,Ohio Harrassed By Cops!? (Father Gets Arrested In Front Of His Son For Not Having A Collar On His Dog) I had to upload this video. This is not right!!!
- published: 11 Sep 2012
- views: 2666
- author: Sma11z99
I-77 South: Akron, OH
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This video follows I-77 South through Akron, OH.
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This video follows I-77 South through Akron, OH.
- published: 30 Jul 2010
- views: 5712
- author: FreewayAndrew
Cavaliers 2012 in the Lot - June 16 - Akron, Ohio
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- Duration: 6:19
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Cavaliers' 2012 battery warming up.
http://wn.com/Cavaliers_2012_in_the_Lot_June_16_Akron,_Ohio
twerk fest akron oh part 1
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
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Radon Mitigation Akron Ohio
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www.ohioradonsystem.com Video taken during a real live radon mitigation installation. Rob Lawrence, President of Ohio Radon Systems walks you through the step by step install of an interior radon mitigation system. Download your free report "Questions you should ask any Ohio Radon Mitigation Contractor you are considering hiring" http
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www.ohioradonsystem.com Video taken during a real live radon mitigation installation. Rob Lawrence, President of Ohio Radon Systems walks you through the step by step install of an interior radon mitigation system. Download your free report "Questions you should ask any Ohio Radon Mitigation Contractor you are considering hiring" http
- published: 03 Nov 2010
- views: 3772
- author: ohioradonsystem
Dyson VS Oreck Vacuum Cleaners? Akron OH to Wooster OH For A Vacuum Cleaner. Why?
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www.vacuumcleanersakronohio.com http Why would you drive from Akron Ohio to Wooster Ohio just to buy a vacuum cleaner? Because it's worth the trip. Visit or store website at www.sweeperstoreonline.com The Sweeper Store 2799 Cleveland Rd. Wooster Ohio 44691 330-345-2111 Allergic reaction sufferers experience a distinctive problem with vacuum cleaners. Certain vacuum cleaners spew out airborne debris. Here's how one can single out the correct one for your home. It isn't just airborne debris. Eighty percent of home dust is really dead skin cells from our shedding skin cells and our dogs or cats, and the feces from dust mites that feed on that skin dander. Nearly all of us are not awfully influenced by this "dust", Some of us suffer the pain of sneezing, runny nose, and head aches from only a minute quantity of this stuff suspended in the indoor air. What has this to do with vacuum cleaners? Plenty, it turns out. Real filtration is the primary concern here. HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filters on the exhaust of just about any vacuum will help trap the tiny debris that transfer all that sets off your allergic reactions. You must be certain that the filter is sealed. Sealed signifies that the surrounding air is forced through the filter material, and can not escape all around the filter material. HEPA filters which are not sealed are as flawed as not making use of one at all, for the reason that all the air flow will escape around the filter, as it is the easiest path ...
http://wn.com/Dyson_VS_Oreck_Vacuum_Cleaners?_Akron_OH_to_Wooster_OH_For_A_Vacuum_Cleaner_Why?
www.vacuumcleanersakronohio.com http Why would you drive from Akron Ohio to Wooster Ohio just to buy a vacuum cleaner? Because it's worth the trip. Visit or store website at www.sweeperstoreonline.com The Sweeper Store 2799 Cleveland Rd. Wooster Ohio 44691 330-345-2111 Allergic reaction sufferers experience a distinctive problem with vacuum cleaners. Certain vacuum cleaners spew out airborne debris. Here's how one can single out the correct one for your home. It isn't just airborne debris. Eighty percent of home dust is really dead skin cells from our shedding skin cells and our dogs or cats, and the feces from dust mites that feed on that skin dander. Nearly all of us are not awfully influenced by this "dust", Some of us suffer the pain of sneezing, runny nose, and head aches from only a minute quantity of this stuff suspended in the indoor air. What has this to do with vacuum cleaners? Plenty, it turns out. Real filtration is the primary concern here. HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filters on the exhaust of just about any vacuum will help trap the tiny debris that transfer all that sets off your allergic reactions. You must be certain that the filter is sealed. Sealed signifies that the surrounding air is forced through the filter material, and can not escape all around the filter material. HEPA filters which are not sealed are as flawed as not making use of one at all, for the reason that all the air flow will escape around the filter, as it is the easiest path ...
- published: 24 Oct 2010
- views: 3037
- author: sweeperstore
Help APD Identify a suspect involved in a Homicide E. Market & Adams St. Akron Ohio
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- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Detectives are asking for the public's help identifying the suspect shown this video produced by the Akron Police Department. Please call the Detective Bureau if you have any information at 330.375.2490. (Report Number 12-13747) **Update 05/30/2012 Thank you to our partners in the local media for broadcasting the video produced by our agency on the recent homicide death of Anthony Hargrove. The video we published for YouTube was viewed over 5000 times in less than a 24 hour period, generating the tips that led to a suspect. Akron Police will continue to use social media outlets to prevent crime and capture criminals. The suspect, Rudolph Valentino Ammons III, 29, of South Arlington Street, was identified and taken into custody without incident around 8:30 this morning in the 700 block of East Buchtel Avenue. Around 1:00am on Sunday, May 27, 2012, officers responded to South Adams Street for a fight where the victim, Anthony Hargrove, was stabbed multiple times. The suspect, Rudolph Ammons III, fled before officers arrived on a dark colored BMX Huffy bicycle, eastbound on East Buchtel Avenue. Hargrove attempted to walk over to Akron City Hospital, when he was found on a park bench outside of the hospital. Hargrove was taken inside of the hospital where he was later pronounced. Rudolph Ammons III was charged with Aggravated Murder and Felonious Assault and booked into the Summit County Jail.
http://wn.com/Help_APD_Identify_a_suspect_involved_in_a_Homicide_E_Market_Adams_St_Akron_Ohio
Detectives are asking for the public's help identifying the suspect shown this video produced by the Akron Police Department. Please call the Detective Bureau if you have any information at 330.375.2490. (Report Number 12-13747) **Update 05/30/2012 Thank you to our partners in the local media for broadcasting the video produced by our agency on the recent homicide death of Anthony Hargrove. The video we published for YouTube was viewed over 5000 times in less than a 24 hour period, generating the tips that led to a suspect. Akron Police will continue to use social media outlets to prevent crime and capture criminals. The suspect, Rudolph Valentino Ammons III, 29, of South Arlington Street, was identified and taken into custody without incident around 8:30 this morning in the 700 block of East Buchtel Avenue. Around 1:00am on Sunday, May 27, 2012, officers responded to South Adams Street for a fight where the victim, Anthony Hargrove, was stabbed multiple times. The suspect, Rudolph Ammons III, fled before officers arrived on a dark colored BMX Huffy bicycle, eastbound on East Buchtel Avenue. Hargrove attempted to walk over to Akron City Hospital, when he was found on a park bench outside of the hospital. Hargrove was taken inside of the hospital where he was later pronounced. Rudolph Ammons III was charged with Aggravated Murder and Felonious Assault and booked into the Summit County Jail.
- published: 29 May 2012
- views: 11885
- author: akronpolice
Ohio Football 2012: Week 7: Akron Motivational Video
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Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar Serves 10-Day Sentence 1/26/2011
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One Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar jailed for 10 days after a private investigation shows that she illegally sent her children to a different school district, which she believed offered a better education.
http://wn.com/Ohio_Mom_Kelley_Williams-Bolar_Serves_10-Day_Sentence_1_26_2011
One Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar jailed for 10 days after a private investigation shows that she illegally sent her children to a different school district, which she believed offered a better education.
- published: 26 Jan 2011
- views: 10572
- author: ABCNews
David Gray, Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Akron, OH, 5 July 2011
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At the Akron Civic Theater. My apologies for not catching the very end of the song because my camera only records for a limited time in HD :-(
http://wn.com/David_Gray,_Say_Hello_Wave_Goodbye,_Akron,_OH,_5_July_2011
At the Akron Civic Theater. My apologies for not catching the very end of the song because my camera only records for a limited time in HD :-(
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 15755
- author: beenerased
Igrale se delije i Makazice Gracanica Akron, Ohio in Pittsburgh Apr 30 2011
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Koncert u Pitsburgu
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DAVID COOK AKRON, OH LIE 5/8/09
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Imagination-Felony One Ft Demarcus Bennet -akron ohio
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music video directed by Larry O. Gladden Jr/EllGee for theumr.com
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music video directed by Larry O. Gladden Jr/EllGee for theumr.com
- published: 28 Sep 2008
- views: 11585
- author: LarryGladden
photo: AP / Aijaz Rahi
22 Dec 2012
Tweet. 0 Email. Report. Photo 1 of 18. In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics. She is an icon of fashion in her country. Credit. Aimee Kligman. In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics. She is an icon of fashion in her country.In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics ... Syrians detained by the Assad regime. 13 Photos ... 10 Photos ... ....(size: 6.3Kb)
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22 Dec 2012
Salman Khan's Dabangg 2 has broken the record for the biggest non-holiday opener ... "Biggest opener [holiday] #EkThaTiger 32.92 cr ... Biggest opener [non-holiday] #RowdyRathore 15.1 cr ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
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23 Dec 2012
Tweet. Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Chemical weapons in Syria are under the control of the government, which has consolidated them in one or two locations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "As of right now, the (Syrian) government is doing all it can to safeguard those weapons," he said. "We are following all leads concerning chemical weapons," Lavrov said ... "My answer is very simple. Why use us as a postman ... pm/ ... ) .. ). ... . ....(size: 3.2Kb)
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23 Dec 2012
A commission will be set up to probe the gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi and measures to ensure such crimes do not recur while laws will be amended to enhance punishment for rape, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said . He also appealed the thousands of protesters on the capital’s streets, demanding justice for the victim, to withdraw ... “The government is serious on the issue. ... . . ....(size: 2.4Kb)
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23 Dec 2012
North Korea's launching of a rocket into space last week amounted to the test of a ballistic missile capable of carrying a half-ton payload over 10,000km, the South Korean defence ministry says. "Based on our analysis and simulation, the missile is capable of flying more than 10,000km with a warhead of 500-600kg," a defence ministry official told reporters on Sunday ... 415 Source.. Agencies. Share. Send Feedback. Featured on Al Jazeera. Jaws....(size: 18.8Kb)
Dayton Daily News
24 Dec 2012
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
Elves & More Northeast Ohio, which makes one unannounced visit each year to give away about 1,000 new bicycles in an Akron neighborhood, descended upon the Lane-Wooster area in donated Con-way Freight tractor-trailers, complete with police car and fire truck escorts ... Elves & More Northeast Ohio “adopts” a different Akron neighborhood each year....(size: 2.1Kb)
MSNBC
24 Dec 2012
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
Fathers and Sons of Northeast Ohio, 19 N. High St., Akron, OH 44308, provides fatherhood education classes to help facilitate reunification of fathers with their minor children; provides mentoring, spiritual support and grief recovery assistance for men who have criminal backgrounds or drug or alcohol abuse; and operates a veterans sober house....(size: 1.8Kb)
The Examiner
24 Dec 2012
AKRON, Oh.- Cleveland State's long winning streak against Mid-American Conference foes ended with a thud with an 87-57 thrashing from host Akron as the Zips got 19 points from Cleveland Benedictine High grad Nick Harney and 18 from Zeke Marshall on Sunday afternoon before 3,240 at James A ... Akron, which got another 15 from ... Akron begins MAC play Jan....(size: 4.8Kb)
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24 Dec 2012
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
The Columbus Dispatch
24 Dec 2012
Get Email Updates. Afternoon Update Email Newsletter ... YOUNGSTOWN (AP) — Two Pennsylvania women are seeking exhumation of their dead mother in an Ohio lawsuit accusing a funeral home of stitching her eyes and mouth shut during the embalming process, according to court records ... Weitendorf of Akron, said it didn’t do anything wrong but won’t oppose the exhumation request ... ....(size: 4.1Kb)
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
Akron. Nightclub shooting. AKRON. A 26-year-old man died during surgery early Sunday morning after apparently being shot inside a nightclub off Romig Road in Akron. Police said the male was found collapsed with a wounded abdomen about 2 a.m. outside the Ace of Spades, 2511 Romig Road ... Police said he lived at a Grace Avenue address ... at Akron General Medical Center, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner’s office ... AKRON ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
Peters, a Cuyahoga Falls resident, is playing in his fourth year of varsity basketball and is a two-time first team All-Northeast Ohio Inland District selection ... Rollyson, 43, is a 1988 Ellet High School graduate and a University of Akron graduate after playing baseball for the Zips from 1989-1992 ... I have done some University of Akron games and some ......(size: 6.9Kb)
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
Sarah Friebert, director of the Haslinger Pediatric Palliative Care Division at Akron Children’s Hospital, said those incidents have resulted in more physical challenges for Jordan ... Along with those activities, he is a lifelong regular camper at Akron Rotary Camp in New Franklin, the Akron Area YMCA-run facility for children and adults with special needs....(size: 5.8Kb)
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
Here is a list of road and lane closings in the Akron area.. Major highways abruptly closed. None. Other road construction.. AKRON.. • Third Avenue bridge, between Innovation Way and Kelly Avenue. Closed to all traffic for replacement until Friday. A detour is posted. Elsewhere in Summit County. ... MEDINA COUNTY. ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
Ohio
24 Dec 2012
Seiberling hired Ed Hippensteal to start cleaning up an old strawboard factory in Akron to turn it into the first home for the still unincorporated Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co ... 31, Hippensteal’s great-grandson, Ed Rueschman, is taking a buyout and will retire from Goodyear after more than 46 years with the Akron tire maker....(size: 4.2Kb)
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| Coordinates: 41°4′23″N 81°31′4″W / 41.07306°N 81.51778°W / 41.07306; -81.51778Coordinates: 41°4′23″N 81°31′4″W / 41.07306°N 81.51778°W / 41.07306; -81.51778 | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| State | Ohio | ||
| County | Summit | ||
| Demonym | Akronite | ||
| Founded | 1825 | ||
| Incorporated | 1836 (village) | ||
| Incorporated | 1865 (city) | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Don Plusquellic (D) | ||
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| • City | 62.4 sq mi (161.6 km2) | ||
| • Land | 62.1 sq mi (160.8 km2) | ||
| • Water | 0.3 sq mi (0.9 km2) | ||
| Elevation | 1,004 ft (306 m) | ||
| Population (2010) | 199,110 (110th in U.S.) | ||
| • Metro | 703,200 | ||
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||
| Area code(s) | 330, 234 | ||
| FIPS code | 39-01000[1] | ||
| GNIS feature ID | 1064305[2] | ||
| Website | http://www.ci.akron.oh.us | ||
Akron /ˈækrən/ is the fifth largest city in Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately 39 miles (63 km) south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110.[3] The Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area covers Summit and Portage counties, and in 2010 had a population of 703,200.[3] Akron is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2010 had a population of 2,780,440.
Akron was co-founded in 1825 when suggested by Paul Williams to Simon Perkins. In 1833, "South" was temporarily added to the name when Eliakim Crosby settled a bordering North Akron.[4] After Summit County formed from portions of Portage, Medina, and Stark counties in 1840, Akron succeeded Cuyahoga Falls as county seat a year later. The Akron School Law of 1847 created the K-12 system.[5] In 1851, Sojourner Truth attended a convention and extemporaneously delivered the original "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. During the Civil War, Ferdinand Schumacher supplied the Union Army with oats produced by his mill along the Ohio Canal. Between the 1870's and World War I, numerous churches across the nation were built using the Akron Plan.[6][7]
With a population increase of 201.8% during the 1910s, it became the nation's fastest growing melting pot, and boomtown due to industries such as the stoneware, sanitary sewer, fishing tackle, farming equipment, match, toy, and rubber.[8][9] The companies General Tire, Goodrich, Firestone, and Goodyear built headquarters, but only the latter remains. Airships, blimps, dirigibles, and zeppelins have been manufactured at the Goodyear Airdock since World War II. The Goodyear Polymer and National Polymer Innovation Centers are on the University of Akron campus which anchors the Polymer Valley and is home to the Archives of the History of American Psychology. Akron also headquartered the National Marble Tournament, Professional Bowlers Association, and Women's Professional Mud Wrestling.[10] Home to employers such as Summa, GOJO Industries, FirstMerit Bank, and FirstEnergy, it is listed by Newsweek as one of ten Information Age high tech havens.[11] Awarded by the National Civic League and National Arbor Day Foundation, it was named one of the world's most livable cities.[12] The All-American Soapbox Derby, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, National Hamburger Festival, Founders Day (Alcoholics Anonymous), and Road Runner Akron Marathon are annually hosted by the city which is a venue for some events of the 2014 Gay Games. Tourist attractions include Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and Lock 3 Park where the American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Company once stood.
Residents of Akron are referred to as "Akronites" which LeBron James was widely noted to be by media. As part of the Rustbelt, it went through decline and its drug history largely contributed to the county becoming referred to as the methamphetamine capital of Ohio.[13] Nicknames include "Rubber City", "City of Invention", and the more historical "Rubber Capital of the World".[14][15][16]
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History[link]
In 1811, Paul Williams settled near the corner of what is now Buchtel and Broadway and suggested to surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins the co-founding of a town at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name derived from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point. Laid out in December 1825, where the South Akron neighborhood now is; Irish laborers working on the Ohio Canal built approximately 100 cabins nearby in autumn. Due to Eliakim Crosby founding "North Akron" (Cascade) in 1833, "South" was added to Akron's name up until the two merged and became an incorporated village in 1836.[4] In 1840 Summit County formed from portions of Portage, Medina, and Stark counties. Akron replaced Cuyahoga Falls as its county seat a year later and opened a canal connecting to Beaver, Pennsylvania, helping birth the stoneware, sewer pipe, fishing tackle, and farming equipment industries.[8][9] In 1844, Abolitionist John Brown moved into the John Brown House across the street from business partner Colonel Simon Perkins whom lived in the Perkins Stone Mansion. The Akron School Law of 1847 began the K-12 grade school system, which currently is used in every U.S. state.[17]
1850s–1890s: Summit City[link]
When the Ohio Women's Rights Convention came to Akron in 1851, Sojourner Truth extemporaneously delivered her speech named Ain't I A Woman?, at the Universalist Old Stone Church. Associated with the church, John R. Buchtel founded Buchtel College in 1870, renamed the University of Akron in 1913. Purchasing a mill in 1856, Ferdinand Schumacher mass-produced oat bars which the Union Army were supplied with during the American Civil War, becoming high in demand afterwords. Akron incorporated as a city in 1865.[18] Philanthropist Lewis Miller, Walter Blythe, and architect Jacob Snyder designed the widely used Akron Plan, debuting it on Akron's First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872.[19] Numerous Congregational, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches built between the 1870s and World War I use it.[6][7] In 1883, local journalist began the modern day toy industry by founding the Akron Toy Company. A year later, the first popular toy was mass produced clay marbles made by Samuel C. Dyke at his shop where Lock 3 Park is now located. Others popular inventions include rubber balloons; ducks; dolls; balls, Baby Buggy Bumper, and Little Brown Jug. In 1895, the first long distance electric railway, the Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railroad, began service.[20] On August 25, 1889, the Boston Daily Globe referred to Akron with the nickname "Summit City".[21] To assist local police, the city deployed the first police car in the U.S. running on electricity.[22]
1900s–1990s: Rubber Capital of the World[link]
See also: Akron Rubber Strike of 1936
The Riot of 1900 resulted in city officials being assaulted, two deaths, plus Columbia Hall and the City Building burning to the ground.[23] The American trucking industry was birthed through Akron's Rubber Capital of the World era when the four major tire companies Goodrich Corporation (1869), Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (1898), Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (1900),[24] and General Tire (1915)[25][26] were headquartered in the city. The numerous jobs the rubber factories provided for deaf people led to Akron being nicknamed the "Crossroads of the Deaf".[27] On Easter Sunday 1913, Akron's total rainfall was recorded at 9.55 inches resulting in a flood which killed five citizens and destroyed the Ohio and Erie Canal system. From 1916–1920 10,000 school girls took part in the successful Akron Experiment, testing iodized salt to prevent goiter in what was known as the "Goiter Belt".[28]
Rubber companies responded to housing crunches by building affordable housing for workers. Goodyear's president, Frank Seiberling, built the Goodyear Heights neighborhood for employees. Likewise, Harvey Firestone built the Firestone Park neighborhood for his employees.[29] During the 1910–1920 decade Akron became a boom town being America's fastest growing city with a 201.8% increase in population. Of the 208,000 citizens, almost one-third were immigrants (also Clark Gable)[30] and their children from places including Europe and West Virginia. In 1925 Goodyear's subsidiary Zeppelin Company began manufacturing airships used in World War II and eventually blimps for advertising purposes.[31][32][33] Akron again grew when Kenmore was annexed by voter approval on November 6, 1928. Found hiding under a bed at one of his hideouts in the city, notorious bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd was arrested under the name "Frank Mitchell" in March 1930.[34] Goodyear became America's top tire manufacturer after merging with The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company in 1935.[35] Lasting five weeks and consisting of roughly 5,000 strikers including union sympathizers from other factories and neighboring states, the Akron Rubber Strike of 1936 successfully used "sit-down" tactic being organized by the United Rubber Workers.[36] During the 1950s–60s Akron surged as use of the automobile did. The historic Rubber Bowl was used by the National Guard of the United States as a base during the racial Wooster Avenue Riots of 1968. Like many other industries of the Rust Belt, both the tire and rubber experienced major decline resulting from multiple labor union strikes occurring from the 70s–80s. By the early 1990s, Goodyear was the last major tire manufacturer based in Akron.
2000s: City of Invention[link]
Despite the number of rubber workers decreasing by approximately half from 2000–07, Akron's research in polymers gained an international reputation.[37] It now centers the Polymer Valley which consist of 400 polymer-related companies of which 94 were located within the city itself.[11] Research is focused at the University of Akron which is home to the Goodyear Polymer Center and National Polymer Innovation Center, and first College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering. Due to its contributions to the Information Age, Newsweek's listed Akron 5th of ten high tech havens in 2001.[11] In 2008 "City of Invention" was added to the seal when the All-America City Award was received for the 3rd time. Summit County has received the nickname "Meth Capital of Ohio" ranking 3rd in the number of registered sites due mainly to homemade methamphetamine in Akron.[13] In September 2009 it was announced that some events of the 2014 Gay Games will use the city as a venue.
Geography[link]
Akron is located in the Great Lakes region approximately 39 miles (63 km) south of Lake Erie, on the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau. It is bordered by Cuyahoga Falls on the north, and Barberton on the south. It is the center of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area which covers Summit and Portage counties, and the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area. Located on the western end of the plateau, the topography of Akron includes rolling hills and varied terrain. The Ohio and Erie Canal passes through the city, separating the east from west. Akron has the only biogas facility[38] in the United States that produces methane through the decomposition process of sludge to create electricity.[39] According to the United States Census Bureau, as of 2000 the city has a total area of 62.1 square miles (161 km2), of which 62.1 square miles (161 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) is water.[40]
Climate[link]
Akron has a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa), with cold but changeable winters, wet, cool springs, warm (sometimes hot) and humid summers, and cool, rather dry autumns. Precipitation is fairly well distributed through the year, but summer tends to have the most rainfall (and also, somewhat paradoxically, the most sunshine), and autumn the least. The mid-autumn through early-spring months tend to be quite cloudy, with sometimes less than 30% possible sunshine. The cloudiest month is December, and the sunniest month is usually July, which is also the wettest month because most of the precipitation occurs with brief, intense thunderstorms. Winters tend to be cold, with average January high temperatures of 32 °F (0 °C), and average January lows of 17 °F (−8 °C), with considerable variation in temperatures. During a typical January, high temperatures of over 50 °F (10 °C) are just as common as low temperatures of below 0 °F (−18 °C). Snowfall is lighter than the snowbelt areas to the north, but is still somewhat influenced by Lake Erie. Akron-Canton Airport generally averages about 46.7 inches of snow per winter. During a typical winter, temperatures drop below 0 °F (−18 °C) on about 6 occurrences, generally only during the nighttime hours.[41] Average July high temperatures of 82 °F (27 °C), and average July lows of 61 °F (16 °C) are normal. Summer weather is more stable, generally humid with thunderstorms fairly common. Temperatures reach or exceed 90 °F (32 °C) about 9 times each summer, on average.[42] In hot summers, such as 1988, however, as many as 30 days over 90 °F (32 °C) have been observed, and in cooler summers, such as the summer of 2000, the temperature may never reach 90 °F (32 °C). Temperatures over 100 °F (38 °C) are rare (about once per decade on average), most recently occurring on several occasions in the hot summer of 1988. The all-time record high in Akron of 104 °F (40 °C) was established on August 6, 1918,[43] and the all-time record low of −25 °F (−32 °C) was set on January 19, 1994.[44] Normal yearly precipitation based on the 30-year average from 1971–2000 is 38.56 inches (979.4 mm).[45]
| Climate data for Akron, Ohio (Akron-Canton Airport), 1981–2010 normals | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 73 (23) |
72 (22) |
83 (28) |
89 (32) |
94 (34) |
100 (38) |
102 (39) |
104 (40) |
99 (37) |
89 (32) |
80 (27) |
76 (24) |
104 (40) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 33.6 (0.9) |
37.2 (2.9) |
47.2 (8.4) |
60.1 (15.6) |
69.8 (21.0) |
78.5 (25.8) |
82.5 (28.1) |
80.8 (27.1) |
73.4 (23.0) |
61.5 (16.4) |
49.7 (9.8) |
37.4 (3.0) |
59.31 (15.17) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 19.3 (−7.1) |
21.4 (−5.9) |
28.6 (−1.9) |
38.9 (3.8) |
48.6 (9.2) |
57.8 (14.3) |
62.0 (16.7) |
60.7 (15.9) |
53.4 (11.9) |
42.6 (5.9) |
34.0 (1.1) |
24.0 (−4.4) |
40.94 (4.97) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −25 (−32) |
−20 (−29) |
−6 (−21) |
10 (−12) |
24 (−4) |
32 (0) |
41 (5) |
39 (4) |
29 (−2) |
20 (−7) |
−1 (−18) |
−16 (−27) |
−25 (−32) |
| Precipitation inches (mm) | 2.60 (66) |
2.30 (58.4) |
2.98 (75.7) |
3.55 (90.2) |
4.28 (108.7) |
3.83 (97.3) |
4.07 (103.4) |
3.56 (90.4) |
3.45 (87.6) |
2.83 (71.9) |
3.28 (83.3) |
2.83 (71.9) |
39.56 (1,004.8) |
| Snowfall inches (cm) | 12.6 (32) |
10.7 (27.2) |
7.9 (20.1) |
2.7 (6.9) |
.1 (0.3) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
.4 (1) |
2.6 (6.6) |
10.1 (25.7) |
47.1 (119.6) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 17.1 | 14.1 | 14.0 | 14.3 | 14.0 | 12.1 | 11.3 | 9.6 | 10.2 | 10.9 | 13.8 | 16.2 | 157.6 |
| Avg. snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 13.1 | 9.4 | 6.4 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .5 | 3.1 | 10.2 | 45.2 |
| Source no. 1: NOAA[45] | |||||||||||||
| Source no. 2: The Weather Channel (records)[46] | |||||||||||||
Cityscape[link]
Architecture[link]
See also: List of tallest buildings in Akron, Ohio and Category:Buildings and structures in Akron, Ohio
As a result of multiple town merging, and industry boom, Akron's architecture is diverse. Originally a canal town, the city is divide into two by the Ohio and Erie Canal, with downtown being centered on it. Many of the city's government and civic buildings, including City Hall, the Summit County Courthouse, the Akron-Summit County Public Library, and John S. Knight Center. The First Methodist Episcopal Church first used the Akron Plan in 1872, the plan later gained popularity, being used in many Congregationalists, Baptists, and Presbyterians.[19][48] For remodeling all public schools to serve as community centers year round, the city was awarded with the City Livability Award in 2008. The National Arbor Day Foundation designated Akron as a Tree City USA for the 14th time, the latest being 2009.[12] The city is home to one of the last remaining civic theaters. Along the locks, the city has a path paved with rubber. Completed in 1931, Akron's tallest building, the FirstMerit Tower, features the art deco style and is covered in glazed architectural terra-cotta.[49] Standing 330 feet (100 m), it is built on top of the Hamilton Building, completed in 1900 in the neo-gothic style.[citation needed] Near the turn of the millennium the tower was given a $2.5 million facelift, including a $1.8 million restoration of the tower's terra-cotta, brick and limestone.[49] The top of the building has a television broadcast tower, formerly used by WAKR-TV (now WVPX-TV) and WAKR-AM.[50] The antenna reaches 134.7 metres (442 ft).[citation needed]Located on the University of Akron campus, the Goodyear Polymer Center, is glass twin towers connected by walkways. The university also utilizes the former Quaker Oats factory as a hotel shopping centers called Quaker Square. The Akron Art Museum, remodeled in 2007, is divided into three parts known as the “Crystal”,[51] “Gallery Box”,[52] and the “Roof Cloud”.[53] The contrasting neighborhoods of Goodyear Heights and Firestone Park, were built during the rubber industry to house workers and their families.
Neighborhoods[link]
Main article: Akron neighborhoods
Akron consists of 24 neighborhoods, with an additional 3 that are unincorporated but recognized within the city. The neighborhoods of the city differ in design largely due to expansions such as town merging, annexation, housing construction in various time periods, and rubber era.
Maple Valley covers the west end of Copley Road, before reaching I-77. Along this strip are several businesses using the name, as well as the Maple Valley Branch of the Akron-Summit County Public Library. Spicertown falls under the blanket of University Park, this term is used frequently to describe the student-centered retail and residential area around East Exchange St. and Spicer, near the University of Akron. West Hill is roughly bounded by West Market on the north, West Exchange on the south, Downtown on the East, and Rhodes Ave. on the West. It features many stately older homes, particularly in the recently recognized Oakdale Historic District.
Suburbs[link]
Akron's suburbs include Fairlawn, Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Norton, Stow, Tallmadge, Silver Lake, Green, and Mogadore. Akron formed Joint Economic Development Districts with Springfield, Coventry, Copley, and Bath (in conjunction with Fairlawn) townships.[54]
Culture[link]
Main article: Culture of Akron, Ohio
Akron is home to E.J. Thomas Hall, the largest of three Akron performance halls. Regular acts include the Akron Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday Musical Club, and Children's Concert Society. World-class performances events include Broadway musicals, ballets, comedies, lectures, entertainers, attracting 400,000 visitors annually. The hall seats 2955, divided among three tiers. To maintain top-notch acoustic sound, the counter-weighted ceiling is adjustable, altering the physical dimensions of the hall. Located downtown is the Akron Civic Theater, which opened in 1929 as the Loewe's Theater. This atmospheric-style theatre was designed by John Eberson and contains many Moorish features including arches and decorative tiles. It originally featured elaborate wood carvings, alabaster statuary, and European antiques. The theater got its current name in 2001 after remodeling. Behind it on the canal is the Lock 3 Park amphitheater, which annually host the First Night in Akron. The Akron Art Museum also located downtown, features art produced since 1850 along with national and international exhibitions.[55] It opened in 1922 as the Akron Art Institute located in the basement of the Akron-Summit County Public Library. It moved to its current location at the renovated 1899 old post office building in 1981. In 2007, the museum more than tripled in size with the addition of the John S. and James L. Knight Building, which received the 2005 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum[56] while still under construction.[57][58]
Built between 1912 and 1915 for Frank Seiberling, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens ranks seventh on the list of Largest Historic Homes in the United States. Located within the Sand Run Metro Parks, the 104 acres (0.42 km2) F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm features a visitors' center, hiking trails, three ponds, gardens, and an array of special programs throughout the year. The Akron Police Museum displays mementos including items from Pretty Boy Floyd, whose gang frequented the city.[59][60] The city is home to several other galleries and museums include American Marble and Toy Museum and the Don Drumm Studios & Gallery.[61]
Film and television[link]
Akron has served as the setting for several major studio and independent films. Inducted into the National Film Registry, Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), tells the story of two dancers from Akron who go to New York City.[62][63] My Name is Bill W. (1989) tells the true story of Bill Wilson who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, which held its first meetings at the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens and has over two million members today.[64] The program's connection to the Saint Thomas Hospital is referenced in an episode of the television series Prison Break (2005), where Michael Scofield talks to Sara Tancredi on the phone while there.[65] The Akron Armory is used as a venue for a female wrestling team in ...All the Marbles (1981).[66] More Than a Game (2009) documents National Basketball Association player LeBron James and his St. Vincent – St. Mary High School high school basketball team's journey.[67] In Drake's music video to Forever (2009) off the More Than a Game Soundtrack (2009), the iconic Goodyear's logo on top the company's theater is shown. The city has been the subject of many different portrayals in media, from "Hell on Earth" in the television series I'm In Hell (2007),[68] to the whereabouts of a holy woman in The Virgin of Akron, Ohio (2007).[69] Henry Spivey of My Own Worst Enemy (2008), travels to Akron through the series many times.[70] George Costanza in an episode of Seinfeld (1989), flies to the city.[71] M.Y.O.B. (2008) is centered on an Akron runaway girl named Riley Veatch.[72] Jake Foley of Jake 2.0 (2003), Pickles family of the Rugrats (1991), and J.Reid of In Too Deep (1999) are also natives of the city.
In popular culture[link]
In the musical comedy, Glee, Vocal Adrenaline, the New Directions rivals are from a fictional school named Carmel High School, which is set in Akron.
Thomas and Beulah, a book of poetry written by native and former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Rita Dove, tells the story of her grandmother and grandfather who separately moved from the South to the city, where they lived through the Great Depression and the rest of their lives.[73] The city is also the setting for the novel The Coast of Akron, by former editor of Esquire, Adrienne Miller.[74] To reflect Akron's decline during the 80s, Native Chrissie Hynde wrote the Pretenders song "My City Was Gone".[75] The Black Keys album title Rubber Factory refers to the former Goodrich Corporation rubber factory in which it was recorded.[76] Akron serves as a setting in the first-person-shooter PC platform video game, No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way.[77][78]
Cryptozoology[link]
The Grassman, also known as the Ohio Grassman and Kenmore Grassman, is an alleged bipedal, ape-like creature reportedly seen in Akron, primarily around Kenmore.[79] In 1995, the possible creature got its name when researchers from Cincinnati came to Akron due to claims of local residents who said an unusual creature was living in a swampy area of the Kenmore neighborhood off Manchester Road.
Tourism[link]
File:Lock 3 Live.jpg
Lock 3 Entertainment Venue, Downtown Akron
There are numerous attractions and Points of Interest in the Akron Area. The Akron Art Museum has been operating since 1922 and is currently located downtown, showcasing over 20,000 square feet of art produced since 1850. Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is the estate of F.A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The manor is open for public viewing and hosts various attractions and public events throughout the year. In the heart of downtown, The Akron Civic Theatre has provided the community with a venue for quality entertainment and live performances for over eighty years. Lock 3, a historical Ohio and Erie Canalway landmark, has been transformed into an entertainment amphitheatre that hosts festivals, concerts, and community events all year long. The Akron Zoo is located just outside downtown and was an initial gift of property from the city's founding family. In Highland Square, Akron hosts a convergence of art, music, and community annually called Art in the Square, a festival featuring local artists and musicians.[80]
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Derby Downs in Akron, OH
National events that are hosted annualy in Akron cover a wide variety of hobbies and interests. The PGA World Golf Championships travel to Akron each year for the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club. The All-American Soap Box Derby is a youth racing program which has its World Championship finals at Derby Downs. In mid July, the National Hamburger Festival consists of different vendors serving original recipe hamburgers and has a Miss Hamburger contest.[81] Lock 3 Park annually hosts the First Night Akron celebration on New Year's Eve.[82] The park also annually hosts the Italian Festival and the "Rib, White & Blue" food festival in July.[80] Founders Day is celebrated annually due to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous within the city.[83][84]
Cuisine[link]
See also: History of Quaker Oats
Several residents of Akron have played a role in defining the American cuisine. Ferdinand Schumacher created the first American oatmeal and is a pioneer of breakfast cereal.[85] He also founded the Empire Barley Mill and German Mills American Oatmeal Company,[86] which would later merge several times with other companies, with the result being the Quaker Oats Company.[87] The Menches Brothers, are the disputed inventors of the waffle ice cream cone,[88] caramel corn,[89] and hamburger.[90] The beer, BORIS The Crusher Oatmeal-Imperial Stout, brewed by the Hoppin' Frog Brewing Company located in the city, won 1st place in the Imperial Stout category of the 2008 Great American Beer Festival, and the company was named the 24th best brewer in the world for 2010 by RateBeer.com[91] Notable eateries in Akron are Luigi's Pizzeria (established in 1949) and The Diamond Grille. Other places include: Crave, Bricco, Cilantro, Urban Eats, Mary Coyle Ice Cream, Swenson's, Ken Stewart's, Tangier, Menches Brothers Restaurant, Louie's, Duffy's, New Era, The Office Bistro, Strickland's Frozen Custard, and Hamburger Station.[92][93] The rivalry between Swenson's and Skyway, aired on Iron Chef Michael Symon's Food Feuds, which Swenson's won.[94]
Spoken dialects[link]
Although Akron is in northern Ohio, where the Inland North dialect is expected, its settlement history, puts it in the North Midland dialect area.[95] Some localisms that have developed include devilstrip, which refers to the grass strip between a sidewalk and street, and the unofficial term Akroness,[96][not in citation given]which has been defined as "simultaneously possessing a look of prolonged neglect and frequent use."
Sports[link]
Akron's professional sports teams include the Akron Aeros (Minor League Baseball), Akron Racers (National Pro Fastpitch), Rubber City Rollergirls (Roller Derby) and NEO Roller Derby, (Women's Flat Track Derby Association) (Roller derby), and the Akron Summit Assault USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. Local sporting facilities include Canal Park, Firestone Stadium, Summit County Fairgrounds Arena Complex, InfoCision Stadium – Summa Field, James A. Rhodes Arena, and the Lee Jackson Field.
The Aeros won the Eastern League Championship six times, the last being in 2009. Nearly growing 87% that year, the Akron Road Runner Marathon has consecutively gained participants since beginning.[97] It was announced that Akron will host some of the events of the 2014 Gay Games including the marathon, the men's and women's golf tournaments at Firestone Country Club, and softball at Firestone Stadium.[98] The All-American Soap Box Derby taken place each year at the Derby Downs since 1936. The Firestone Country Club, annually host the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and in the past hosted tournaments including the PGA Championship, American Golf Classic, and Rubber City Open Invitational. The Akron & National Marble Tournament was created in 1923, by Roy W. Howard, being owned by the Akron District Marbles Tournament and the Akron Beacon Journal sometime before it ended permanently in the 1960s. On January 7, 1938, Akron became the birthplace of women's professional Mud Wrestling, in a match including Professional Wrestling and Wrestling Observer Hall of Famer, Mildred Burke.[99] The Professional Bowlers Association started in the city during 1958. LeBron James' King for Kids bike-a-thon feature James riding with kids through the city each June.[100] In November, the city host the Home Run for the Homeless marathon.
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Firestone Stadium hosts the National Pro Fastpitch Championship Series.
Past sports teams[link]
Former teams of Akron include the Akron Professionals (National Football League), Goodyear Silents (deaf semi-professional football), Akron Black Tyrites (Negro League), Akron Americans (International Hockey League), Akron Lightning (International Basketball League), and the Akron Wingfoots (National Basketball League), who won the first NBL Championship and the International Cup three times. The Akron Firestone Non-Skids (National Basketball League), later won the title consecutively, in 1939 and 1940.
College sports[link]
As home to the University of Akron, the city is also home to the Akron Zips, who compete in the NCAA in a variety of sports at the Division I level. Before completion of the InfoCision Stadium – Summa Field, the football team played at the historic Rubber Bowl, former home of the 1920 National Football League Championship winners, the Akron Professionals. The men's basketball team appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 1986, 2009, and 2011. In 2009, the Zips men's soccer team completed the regular-season undefeated, then won the NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship in 2010. Zippy, one of the eight female NCAA mascots, won the Capital One National Mascot of the Year contest in 2007.
Parks and recreation[link]
Major parks in Akron include Lock 3, Firestone, Goodyear Heights, the F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm (or Naturealm), and part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Several of the parks along on the locks of the canal. Lock 3 Park in downtown Akron is the city's hub for entertainment. It is commonly used as an outdoor amphitheater hosting live musical entertainment, festivals, and special events year-round. The park was created in the early 21st century to provide green space within the city of Akron. The Ohio-Erie Canal can still be seen flowing behind the stage where there was once a boat yard and dry dock. Later, a pottery factory stood there until the O’Neil’s parking deck was built in the current location. More than 65,000 guests use the park for recreation annually. During Lock 3 Live, it holds concerts for almost every musical genre, including alternative, R&B, reggae, gospel, country, pop, jazz, and classic rock. Some festivals the park hosts throughout the year include Soap Box Derby opening ceremonies, firefighter competitions, charity events, tournaments, and animal events. From November through February, Lock 3 Park is transformed into an outdoor ice-skating rink.[101] Adjacent to the Derby Downs race hill is a 19,000-square-foot (1,800 m2) outdoor skatepark. The park features concrete ramps, including two bowls going as deep as 7 feet (2.1 m), a snake run, two hips, a stair set with handrail, many smaller quarter pipes and a variety of grind boxes. Positioned just a few feet from the Akron Skatepark is a Pro BMX course where organized races are often held in the warmer months.
The Ohio and Erie Canal towpath is a regional bike and hike trail that follows the canal. A bridge was completed in 2008, crossing Route 59/The Innerbelt, which connects the towpath proper with bike routes painted onto streets downtown, thus completing another step towards the connection of Cleveland and East Liverpool with a hike and bike trail.[citation needed] The State of Ohio plans to reconstruct the trail which once ran completely through Ohio, to New Philadelphia from Cleveland. The trail features a floating observation deck section over Summit Lake. It is a popular tourist attraction, as it attracts over 2 million visits annually.[102][103][104] The Portage Hike and Bike Trail, when fully complete, will connect with the hike and bike trails in the county.[105]
Media[link]
See also: Akron Radio
Akron is served in print by the daily Akron Beacon Journal and the weekly West Side Leader newspapers and the monthly magazine Akron Life & Leisure. The Buchtelite newspaper is published by the University of Akron.[106]
Akron is less than 40 miles (64 km) from Cleveland, and forms part of the Cleveland-Akron (Canton) media market, the 18th largest market in the US.[107] However, WAOH-LP, WEAO (PBS), WVPX (ION), and WBNX-TV (CW) are licensed to Akron. WAOH and WEAO serve the city of Akron specifically, while WBNX and WVPX identify themselves as Akron/Cleveland, serving the entire Northeast Ohio market. Akron has no native news broadcast, having lost its only news station when the former WAKC became WVPX in 1996. WVPX and Cleveland's WKYC later provided a joint news program, which was cancelled in 2005.[108][109]
On the radio side, Akron is served by WZIP 88.1 (Top 40 / College – University of Akron), WAPS 91.3 (Varied formats: local artists, modern rock, blues, jazz and public radio), WAKR 1590 (Oldies), WKDD 98.1 (Adult contemporary), WHLO 640 (News/talk), WJMP 1520 (News/Talk), WKSU 89.7 (National Public Radio, operated from the campus of Kent State University), WONE 97.5 (Classic rock), WNIR-FM 100.1 (News/talk), WSTB 88.9 (Alternative), WARF 1350 (Fox Sports Ohio), WQMX 94.9 (Country), WRQK 106.9 (Rock), and WHOF 101.7 (AC).
Economy[link]
Many industries in the United States either began or were influenced by the city. After beginning the tire and rubber industry during the 20th century with the founding of Goodrich, Firestone, General Tire, also the Goodyear merger with The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company gained the status of, "Rubber Capital of the World". Akron has won economic awards such as for City Livability and All-American City, and deemed a high tech haven greatly contributing to the Information Age.[110] Current Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the city include the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and FirstEnergy. In addition, the city is the headquarters to a number of other notable companies such as A. Schulman, GOJO, Advanced Elastomer Systems, FirstMerit Bank, Roadway Express, Myers Industries, Acme Fresh Market, Sterling Jewelers, and Lockheed Martin, Maritime Systems & Sensors Division. Goodyear, the fifth-largest private employer in Summit County,[111] is currently constructing a new headquarters in the city. The project referred to as, Akron Riverwalk, will feature a large retail and commercial development area.[112] The project began in 2007, but was put on hold due to the financial crisis of 2007–2010, and is now continuing.[113] Bridgestone is building a new technical center, with state-of-the-art R&D labs, where its operation will relocate to by 2012.[114][115] The Eastern Ohio Division of KeyBank, which has six branches in the city, built a regional headquarters in Downtown.[116] The city has a free WiFi corridor centered in downtown. Neighborhoods in range include Goodyear Heights, East Akron, North Hill, Firestone Park, Kenmore, and West Akron.[117] Some frequented locations in the area include, Akron-Summit County Public Library, John S. Knight Center, and the Intermodel Transit Center.
Polymer Valley[link]
Polymer Valley is in the northeastern part of the Ohio, centered in Akron. The area holds forty-five percent of the state's polymer industries with the oldest starting the 19th century. It is considered[by whom?] the polymer manufacturing center in the country, due to the educational, mineral, and transportation resources of the area. During the 1980s and 1990s, an influx of new polymer companies came to the region.[118] In 2001, more than 400 companies manufactured polymer-based materials in the region.[119] Many University of Akron scientists became world renowned for their research done at the Goodyear Polymer Center.[citation needed] The first College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering was begun by the university. In 2010, the National Polymer Innovation Center opened on campus.
Hospitals[link]
Akron has designated an area called the Biomedical Corridor, aimed at luring health-related ventures to the region. It encompasses 1,240 acres (5.0 km2) of private and publicly owned land, bounded by Akron General on the west and Akron City on the east, and also includes Akron Children’s near the district’s center with Saint Thomas Hospital to the north of its northern boundaries.[120] Since its start in 2006, the corridor added the headquarters of companies such as Akron Polymer Systems.[121]
Akron's adult hospitals are owned by two health systems, Summa Health System and Akron General Health System. Summa Health System operates Akron City Hospital and St. Thomas Hospital, which in 2008, were recognized for the 11th consecutive year as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.[122][123] Summa is recognized as having one of the best orthopaedics programs in the nation with a ranking of 28th.[124] Akron General Health System operates Akron General Medical Center, which in 2009, was recognized as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.[125][126] Akron Children's Hospital is an independent entity that specializes in pediatric care and burn care.[127] In 1974, Dr. Howard Igel and Dr. Aaron Freeman successfully grew human skin in a lab to treat burn victims, making Akron Children's Hospital the first hospital in the world to achieve such a feat.[128] Akron City and Akron General hospitals are designated Level I Trauma Centers.
Top employers[link]
According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[129] the top private sector employers in the city are:
| # | Employer | # of Employees |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summa Health System | 5,669 |
| 2 | Akron General Health System | 4,532 |
| 3 | University of Akron | 4,427 |
| 4 | County of Summit | 3,388 |
| 5 | Akron Public Schools | 3,131 |
| 6 | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company | 3,001 |
| 7 | Akron Children's Hospital | 2,680 |
| 8 | Time Warner Cable | 2,440 |
| 9 | FirstEnergy | 2,316 |
| 10 | Sterling Jewelers | 2,045 |
Government and politics[link]
See also: List of Mayors of Akron, Ohio and List of Akron politicians
The mayor of Akron is elected in a citywide vote, the city has reached its 59th mayor. They city is divided into 10 wards, each elect a member to the Akron City Council, while an additional 3 are elected at large. The mayor's cabinent currently consist of directors and deputy directors of administration, communications, community relations, economic development, intergovernmental relations, labor relations, law, planning & urban development, planning director – deputy, public safety, and public service.[131] The city adopted a new charter of the commissioner manager type in 1920, but reverted to its old form in 1924.
The current mayor of Akron is Don Plusquellic, who is currently serving his fifth term and was the President of the United States Conference of Mayors during 2004. Plusquellic is also a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan group dedicated to making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets.[132] In 2008, he was selected along with other mayors, by President Barack Obama to work on solving the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009 at the local level.[133] He defeated a recall attempt in 2009.
Humanitarian affairs[link]
Aside from city founder, Simon Perkins, negotiating a treaty with Native Americans to establish a mail route from the Connecticut Western Reserve to Detroit in 1807, others partook in historic humanitarian affairs in Akron. Aside from being part of the Underground Railroad, when active, John Brown was a resident, today having two landmarks (John Brown House) (John Brown Monument) dedicated to him. During the 1851 Women's Rights Convention, Sojourner Truth delivered her speech entitled "Ain't I A Woman?". In 1905, a statue of an Indian named Unk was erected on Portage Path, which was part of the effective western boundary of the White and Native American lands from 1785 to 1805.[134] The Summit County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan reported having 50,000 members, making it the largest local chapter in the country during the 20th century. In 1905, the sheriff, county officials, mayor of Akron, judges, county commissioners, and most members of Akron's school board were members. The Klan's influence in the city's politics eventually ended after Wendell Willkie, arrived and challenged them.[135] Race took part in two of Akron's major riots, the Riot of 1900 and the Wooster Ave. Riots of 1968. Others giving speeches on race, in the city include Dr. W.E.B. DuBois (1920)[136] and President Bill Clinton (1997).[137] In 1971, Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Inc. was founded in Akron by the Eta Tau Lambda chapter, with James R. Williams as chairman. The centerpiece, Henry Arthur Callis Tower, is located in the Channelwood Village area of the city. In 2008, 91 year old Akron native, Addie Polk, became the poster child of the financial crisis of 2007–2010, after shooting herself.[138]
Demographics[link]
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1850 | 3,266 |
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| 1860 | 3,477 | 6.5% | |
| 1870 | 10,006 | 187.8% | |
| 1880 | 16,512 | 65.0% | |
| 1890 | 27,601 | 67.2% | |
| 1900 | 42,728 | 54.8% | |
| 1910 | 69,067 | 61.6% | |
| 1920 | 208,435 | 201.8% | |
| 1930 | 255,040 | 22.4% | |
| 1940 | 244,791 | −4.0% | |
| 1950 | 274,605 | 12.2% | |
| 1960 | 290,351 | 5.7% | |
| 1970 | 275,425 | −5.1% | |
| 1980 | 237,177 | −13.9% | |
| 1990 | 223,019 | −6.0% | |
| 2000 | 217,074 | −2.7% | |
| 2010 | 199,110 | −8.3% | |
| source:[139] | |||
As of the census[1] of 2010, there were 199,110 people, 90,116 households, and 53,709 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,497.3 people per square mile (1,350.3/km²). There were 97,315 housing units at an average density of 1,567.9 per square mile (605.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 62.2% White, 31.5% African American, 0.2% Native American, 2.1% Asian, and 3.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.1% of the population, predominately of Puerto Rican decent.[140] Non-Hispanic Whites were 61.2% of the population in 2010,[140] down from 81.6% in 1970.[141] The top 5 largest ancestries include German (18.1%), Irish (11.5%), English (7.2%), Italian (6.8%), and American (6.4%).[142]
There were 90,116 households out of which 28.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.5% were married couples living together, 17.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.4% were non-families. 33.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 3.01.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.3% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 91.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $31,835, and the median income for a family was $39,381. Males had a median income of $31,898 versus $24,121 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,596. About 14.0% of families and 17.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.7% of those under age 18 and 9.7% of those age 65 or over.
Akron has a metropolitan population of 694,960 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). Akron is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which was the 14th largest in the country with a population of over 2.9 million according to the 2000 Census.
Education[link]
Preschool, elementary, and secondary education is mainly provided by the Akron City School District. Planning of the district began in 1840, when Ansel Miller suggested to build free public schools for all children in the city, paid for by property taxes. After enduring much opposition by citizens, in 1843 Miller joined with Rev. Isaac Jennings. Three years later, Jennings became the chairman of a committee of citizens who discussed how to improve the school system. On November 21, 1846, their plan was approved unanimously by the citizens. The Ohio Legislature adopted the plan, called "An act for the support and better regulation of the Common Schools of the Town of Akron" on February 8, 1847. Akron’s first public schools were established in the fall of 1847 and were led by Mortimer Leggett. The first annual report showed that it cost less than $2 a year to educate a child. In 1857 the cost of running the schools for a year was $4,200. The primary schools were taught by young women, which the Akron Board of Education justified because they could be paid less and were under the supervision of a male superintendent. From 1877 to 1952, Akron graduated students semi-annually instead of annually. 9% of the city’s school-aged population were born in other countries in 1888. In the 1920s, an Americanization program was designed to help the many Akron students who were first-generation Americans. Classes were in the rubber companies and some of the schools. A “continuation school” began for working boys and girls who were required by law to have at least four hours of schooling a week. In 1924, Akron's platoon schools attracted visitors from all over the country. Being a stronghold for the Ku Klux Klan during the decade, the majority of school board and government officials were members. Their influence ended with the arrival of Wendell Willkie. During the city's 1950s boom town phase, Akron schools grew eight times faster than the city’s population. In 1967, Kenmore launched the Air Force JROTC. In 1971, Jennings piloted the middle school model, which moved ninth-graders to the senior high school. In 1984, all-day kindergarten was piloted at Seiberling, Rankin and Hatton schools, and Ellet, East and Garfield high schools piloted the in-school suspension program. The district received an A+ evaluation from the state in 1987.[143]
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In 2009 Akron-Summit County Public Library was recognized with a 5 star rating by Library Journal[144]
The city is home to the University of Akron, which the Princeton Review listed among the Best in the Midwest, in 2008.[145] Originally Buchtel College, the school is home of the Goodyear Polymer Center and the National Polymer Innovation Center.[146] All Akron Public Schools are currently going through a 15-year, $800 million rebuilding process.[147] In recent times the city’s schools have been moved from “Academic Watch” to “Continuous Improvement” by the Ohio Department of Education.[148] Akron also has many private, parochial and charter schools. Akron Public Schools made headlines in 2004 when a freshman student of Akron Digital Academy, the district’s own online charter school, was not allowed to participate in extracurricular activities, an event later covered and satirized by The Daily Show. National Basketball Association player LeBron James, attended St. Vincent - St. Mary High School.
Transportation[link]
Airports[link]
The primary terminal that airline passengers, travelling to or from Akron, use is the Akron-Canton Regional Airport, which in 2010, had its busiest January of all time with nearly 107,000 passengers.[149] The Akron-Canton Airport is a commercial Class C airport located in the city of Green,[150] roughly 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Akron operated jointly by Stark and Summit counties. Two low-fare airlines, Frontier Airlines and AirTran Airways, have begun serving Akron-Canton in recent years, making it an alternative for travellers to or from the Cleveland area as well. Akron Fulton International Airport is a general aviation airport located in and owned by the City of Akron that serves private planes. It first opened in 1929 and has operated in several different capacities since then. The airport had commercial scheduled airline service until the 1950s and it is now used for both cargo and private planes.[151] It is home of the Lockheed Martin Airdock, where the Goodyear blimps were originally stored and maintained. The Goodyear blimps are now housed outside of Akron in a facility on the shores of Wingfoot Lake in nearby Suffield Township.
Railroads[link]
Akron Northside Station is a train station located in the city at 27 Ridge Street along the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.[152]
Bus and public transportation[link]
Public transportation is available through the METRO Regional Transit Authority system, which has a fleet of over two hundred buses and trolleys and operates local routes as well as running commuter buses into downtown Cleveland. Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) also has a bus line running between Canton and Akron and the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority (PARTA) runs an express route connecting the University of Akron with Kent State University.[153] Metro RTA operates out of the Intermodal Transit Center located on South Broadway Street. This facility, which opened on January 18, 2009, also houses inter-city bus transportation available through Greyhound Lines.[154]
Freeways[link]
Akron is served by two major Interstates that bisect the city. Unlike other cities, the bisection does not occur in the Central Business District, nor do the Interstates serve the downtown region, rather The Akron Innerbelt and to a much lesser extent Ohio State Route 8 serve these functions.
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The Innerbelt looking northeast
- Interstate 77 connects Marietta, Ohio to Cleveland, Ohio. In Akron, it features 15 interchanges, four of which permit freeway to freeway movements. It runs north-south at the southern part of the city to its concurrency with I-76 where it takes a westerly turn and after the concurrency takes a northwest turn.
- Interstate 76 connects Interstate 71 to Youngstown, Ohio and farther environs. It runs east-west and has 18 interchanges in Akron, four of which are freeway to freeway. The East Leg was rebuilt in the 1990s to feature 6 lanes and longer merge lanes. The concurrency with Interstate 77 is eight lanes. The Kenmore Leg is a four lane leg that is slightly less than two miles (3 km) long and connects to I-277.
- Interstate 277 is an east-west spur that it forms with US 224 after I-76 splits to the north to form the Kenmore Leg. It is six lane and cosigned with U.S. 224.
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View of Akron from the south looking north
- The Akron Innerbelt is a six lane, 2.24-mile (3.60 km) spur from the I-76/I-77 concurrency and serves the urban core of the city. Its ramps are directional from the Interstates so it only serves west side drivers. ODOT is considering changing this design to attract more traffic to the route. The freeway comes to an abrupt end near the northern boundary of downtown where it becomes Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The freeway itself is officially known as "The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Freeway". The freeway was originally designed to connect directly to State Route 8, but plans were laid to rest in the mid seventies due to financial troubles.
- Ohio State Route 8 is an original state highway that is a limited access route that connects Akron's northern suburbs with Interstates 76 and 77. State Route 8's southern terminus is at the central interchange where it meets I-76 and I-77. The second freeway in Akron to be completed, it went through a major overhaul in 2003 with brand new ramps and access roads. In 2007 ODOT began a project to upgrade the road to Interstate highway standards north of Akron from State Route 303 to I-271, providing a high speed alternative to Cleveland.[155]
Crime[link]
Main article: Crime history of Akron, Ohio
In 1999, Akron ranked as the 94th most dangerous city and the 229th safest, on the 7th Morgan Quitno list.[156] Preliminary Ohio crime statistics show aggravated assaults increased by 45% during 2007.[157] Akron became the first city in the United States to train and equip officers with the CornerShot, to aid them in fighting crime.[158] The city invented the first patrol cars to assist officers.
Historically, organized crime operated in the city with the presence of the Black Hand led by Rosario Borgio, once headquartered on the city's north side in the first decade of the 20th century[citation needed] and the Walker-Mitchell mob, of which Pretty Boy Floyd was a member.[159] Akron has experienced several riots in its history including, the Riot of 1900 and the Wooster Avenue Riots of 1968.
Methamphetamine history[link]
The distribution of methamphetamine ("meth") in Akron greatly contributed to Summit County becoming known as the "Meth Capital of Ohio". The county ranks third in the nation in the number of registered meth sites.[13] During the 1990s, motorcycle gang the Hells Angels sold the drug from bars frequented by members.[160] Between January 2004 and August 2009, the city had significantly more registered sites than any other city in the state.[161] Authority believe a disruption of a major Mexican meth operation, attributed to the increase of it being made locally.[162] In 2007, APD received a grant to help continue its work with other agencies and jurisdictions to support them in ridding the city of meth labs.[163] The Akron Police Department coordinates with the Summit County Drug Unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration, forming the Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratory Response Team.[164]
Notable people[link]
Main article: List of people from Akron, Ohio
Akron has produced and been home to a number of notable individuals in varying fields. Its natives and residents are referred to as "Akronites". The first postmaster of the Connecticut Western Reserve and president of its bank, General Simon Perkins co-founded Akron in 1825. His son, Colonel Simon Perkins, while living in Akron during the same time as abolitionist John Brown, went into business with Brown.
Noted athletes to have come from Akron include National Basketball Association players LeBron James and Stephen Curry, Basketball Hall of Famers Gus "Honeycomb" Johnson and Nate "The Great" Thurmond, Baseball Hall of Famer Thurman Munson, International Boxing Hall of Famer Gorilla Jones, former Northwestern University and Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian, and Butch Reynolds, former world record holder in the 400 meter dash.
Performing artists to come from Akron include bands such as Devo, The Black Keys and 1964 the Tribute; singers Chrissie Hynde, James Ingram and David Allan Coe famous outlaw country singer; actors and actresses Frank Dicopoulos, David McLean, Melina Kanakaredes, and Elizabeth Franz. Tool's Maynard James Keenan is also from Akron.
Poet Rita Dove was born and grew up in Akron. She went on to become the first African-American United States Poet Laureate. Many of her poems are about or take place in Akron, foremost among them Thomas and Beulah, which earned her the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Owner of over 400 patents, native Stanford R. Ovshinsky invented the widely used nickel-metal hydride battery. Richard Smalley, winner of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering buckminsterfullerene (buckyballs) was born in the city during 1943. Another native, the second US female astronaut in space Judith Resnik died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and has the Resnik Moon crater named in her honor.
Sister cities[link]
Akron has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:
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Further reading[link]
- Akron Chamber of Commerce Year Book, (1913–14)
- The University of Akron Press
- Dyer, Joyce, Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town, The University of Akron Press: Akron (2003)
- Endres, Kathleen, Akron's Better Half: Women's Clubs and the Humanization of a City, 1825–1925, The University of Akron Press: Akron (2006)
- Jones, Alfred Winslow, Life, Liberty, & Property: A Story of Conflict and a Measurement of Conflicting Rights, The University of Akron Press: Akron (1999)
- Russ Musarra and Chuck Ayers, Walks around Akron, The University of Akron Press: Akron (2007)
- S. A. Lane, Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, (Akron, 1892)
- S. Love and David Giffels, Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron, Ohio, The University of Akron Press: Akron (1998)
- S. Love, Ian Adams, and Barney Taxel, Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, The University of Akron Press: Akron (2000)
- F. McGovern, Written on the Hills: The Making of the Akron Landscape, The University of Akron Press: Akron (1996)
- F. McGovern, Fun, Cheap, and Easy: My Life in Ohio Politics, 1949–1964, The University of Akron Press: Akron (2002).
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This article is about the U.S. state of Ohio. For other uses, see Ohio (disambiguation).
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| Nickname(s): The Buckeye State; The Mother of Presidents; Birthplace of Aviation; The Heart of It All |
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| Motto(s): With God, all things are possible | |||||
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| Official language(s) | None. (English, de facto) | ||||
| Demonym | Ohioan; Buckeye[1] (colloq.) | ||||
| Capital (and largest city) |
Columbus[2][3] | ||||
| Largest metro area | Greater Cleveland or Greater Cincinnati (see footnote[4]) |
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| Area | Ranked 34th in the U.S. | ||||
| - Total | 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km2) |
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| - Width | 220 miles (355 km) | ||||
| - Length | 220 miles (355 km) | ||||
| - % water | 8.7 | ||||
| - Latitude | 38° 24′ N to 41° 59′ N | ||||
| - Longitude | 80° 31′ W to 84° 49′ W | ||||
| Population | Ranked 7th in the U.S. | ||||
| - Total | 11,544,951 (2011 est)[5] | ||||
| - Density | 282/sq mi (109/km2) Ranked 10th in the U.S. |
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| - Highest point | Campbell Hill[6][7] 1,549 ft (472 m) |
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| - Mean | 850 ft (260 m) | ||||
| - Lowest point | Ohio River at Indiana border[6][7] 455 ft (139 m) |
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| Before statehood | Northwest Territory | ||||
| Admission to Union | March 1, 1803[8] (17th, declared retroactively on August 7, 1953[9]) |
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| Governor | John Kasich[10] (R)[11] | ||||
| Lieutenant Governor | Mary Taylor[12] (R)[13] | ||||
| Legislature | General Assembly | ||||
| - Upper house | Senate | ||||
| - Lower house | House of Representatives | ||||
| U.S. Senators | Sherrod Brown[14] (D)[14] Rob Portman (R) |
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| U.S. House delegation | 13 Republicans, 5 Democrats (list) | ||||
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | ||||
| Abbreviations | OH[15] US-OH | ||||
| Website | www.ohio.gov | ||||
Ohio (i/oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Ohio is the 34th most extensive, the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.
The name "Ohio" originated from Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning "great river".[16][17][18][19][20] The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803.[8][21] Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the "Buckeye State" (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes".[1]
The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court. Currently, Ohio occupies 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives.[22] Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state[23] and a bellwether[23] in national elections.
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Further information: List of Ohio counties, List of cities in Ohio, List of villages in Ohio, List of Ohio townships, Ohio public lands, and List of lakes in Ohio
Ohio's geographic location has proven to be an asset for economic growth and expansion. Because Ohio links the Northeast to the Midwest, much cargo and business traffic passes through its borders along its well-developed highways. Ohio has the nation's 10th largest highway network, and is within a one-day drive of 50% of North America's population and 70% of North America's manufacturing capacity.[24] To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles (502 km) of coastline,[25] which allows for numerous seaports. Ohio's southern border is defined by the Ohio River (with the border being at the 1793 low-water mark on the north side of the river), and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. Ohio's neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Ontario Canada, to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, and West Virginia on the southeast. Ohio's borders were defined by metes and bounds in the Enabling Act of 1802 as follows:
Bounded on the east by the Pennsylvania line, on the south by the Ohio River, to the mouth of the Great Miami River, on the west by the line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid.
Note that Ohio is bounded by the Ohio River, but nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, based on the wording of the cessation of territory by Virginia (which, at that time included what is now Kentucky and West Virginia), the boundary between Ohio and Kentucky (and by implication, West Virginia) is the northern low-water mark of the river as it existed in 1792.[26] Ohio has only that portion of the river between the river's 1792 low-water mark and the present high-water mark.
The border with Michigan has also changed, as a result of the Toledo War, to angle slightly northeast to the north shore of the mouth of the Maumee River.
Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with an exceptionally flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. This glaciated region in the northwest and central state is bordered to the east and southeast first by a belt known as the glaciated Allegheny Plateau, and then by another belt known as the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills and forests.
The rugged southeastern quadrant of Ohio, stretching in an outward bow-like arc along the Ohio River from the West Virginia Panhandle to the outskirts of Cincinnati, forms a distinct socio-economic unit. Geologically similar to parts of West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania, this area's coal mining legacy, dependence on small pockets of old manufacturing establishments, and distinctive regional dialect set this section off from the rest of the state. In 1965 the United States Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, at attempt to "address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region."[27] This act defines 29 Ohio counties as part of Appalachia.[28] While 1/3 of Ohio's land mass is part of the federally defined Appalachian region, only 12.8% of Ohioans live there (1.476 million people.)[29]
Significant rivers within the state include the Cuyahoga River, Great Miami River, Maumee River, Muskingum River, and Scioto River. The rivers in the northern part of the state drain into the northern Atlantic Ocean via Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River, and the rivers in the southern part of the state drain into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio River and then the Mississippi.
The worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, including the downtown business district of Dayton. As a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States.[30]
Grand Lake St. Marys in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the canal-building era of 1820–1850. For many years this body of water, over 20 square miles (52 km2), was the largest artificial lake in the world. It should be noted that Ohio's canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their industrial emergence to location on canals, and as late as 1910 interior canals carried much of the bulk freight of the state.
Climate[link]
The climate of Ohio is a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa) throughout most of the state except in the extreme southern counties of Ohio's Bluegrass region section which are located on the northern periphery of the humid subtropical climate and Upland South region of the United States. Summers are typically hot and humid throughout the state, while winters generally range from cool to cold. Precipitation in Ohio is moderate year-round. Severe weather is not uncommon in the state, although there are typically fewer tornado reports in Ohio than in states located in what is known as the Tornado Alley. Severe lake effect snowstorms are also not uncommon on the southeast shore of Lake Erie, which is located in an area designated as the Snowbelt.
Although predominantly not in a subtropical climate, some warmer-climate flora and fauna does reach well into Ohio. For instance, a number of trees with more southern ranges, such as the blackjack oak, Quercus marilandica, are found at their northernmost in Ohio just north of the Ohio River. Also evidencing this climatic transition from a subtropical to continental climate, several plants such as the Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), Albizia julibrissin (mimosa), Crape Myrtle, and even the occasional Needle Palm are hardy landscape materials regularly used as street, yard, and garden plantings in the Bluegrass region of Ohio; but these same plants will simply not thrive in much of the rest of the State. This interesting change may be observed while traveling through Ohio on Interstate 75 from Cincinnati to Toledo; the observant traveler of this diverse state may even catch a glimpse of Cincinnati's common wall lizard, one of the few examples of permanent "subtropical" fauna in Ohio.
Records[link]
The highest recorded temperature was 113 °F (45 °C), near Gallipolis on July 21, 1934.[31] The lowest recorded temperature was −39 °F (−39 °C), at Milligan on February 10, 1899.[32]
Earthquakes[link]
Although few have registered as noticeable to the average citizen, more than 30 earthquakes occurred in Ohio between 2002 and 2007, and more than 200 quakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or higher have occurred since 1776.[33]
The most substantial known earthquake in Ohio history was the Anna (Shelby County) earthquake,[34] which occurred on March 9, 1937. It was centered in western Ohio, and had a magnitude of 5.4, and was of intensity VIII.[35]
Other significant earthquakes in Ohio include:[36] one of magnitude 4.8 near Lima on September 19, 1884;[37] one of magnitude 4.2 near Portsmouth on May 17, 1901;[38] and one of 5.0 in LeRoy Township in Lake County on January 31, 1986, which continued to trigger 13 aftershocks of magnitude 0.5 to 2.4 for two months.[39][40]
The most recent earthquake in Ohio of any appreciable magnitude occurred on December 31, 2011, at 3:05pm EST. It had a magnitude of 4.0, and its epicenter was located approximately 4 kilometres northwest of Youngstown (41°7′19.1994″N 80°41′2.3994″W / 41.121999833°N 80.683999833°W / 41.121999833; -80.683999833), near the Trumbull/Mahoning county border.[41]
The Ohio Seismic Network (OhioSeis), a group of seismograph stations at several colleges, universities, and other institutions, and coordinated by the Division of Geological Survey of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources,[42] maintains an extensive catalog of Ohio earthquakes from 1776 to the present day, as well as earthquakes located in other states whose effects were felt in Ohio.[43]
Major cities[link]
See also: List of cities in Ohio
| Rank | City | 2010 Population[44] | 2010 Metro Population[45] |
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| 1 | Columbus | 787,033 | 1,836,540 |
| 2 | Cleveland | 396,815 | 2,077,240 |
| 3 | Cincinnati | 296,943 | 2,130,151 |
| 4 | Toledo | 287,208 | 651,429 |
| 5 | Akron | 199,110 | 703,200 |
| 6 | Dayton | 141,527 | 841,502 |
| 7 | Parma | 81,601 | 1 |
| 8 | Canton | 73,007 | 404,422 |
| 9 | Youngstown | 66,982 | 565,773 |
| 10 | Lorain | 64,097 | 1 |
| 11 | Hamilton | 62,477 | 2 |
| 12 | Springfield | 60,608 | 133,333 |
| 13 | Kettering | 56,163 | 4 |
| 14 | Elyria | 54,533 | 1 |
| 15 | Lakewood | 52,131 | 1 |
| 16 | Cuyahoga Falls | 49,652 | 5 |
| 17 | Euclid | 48,920 | 1 |
| 18 | Middletown | 48,694 | 2 |
| 19 | Mansfield | 47,821 | 124,475 |
| 20 | Newark | 47,573 | 3 |
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Columbus (home of The Ohio State University, Franklin University, Capital University, and Ohio Dominican University) is the capital of Ohio, near the geographic center of the state.
Other Ohio cities functioning as centers of United States metropolitan areas include:
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- Akron (home of University of Akron and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company)
- Canton (home of Pro Football Hall of Fame, Malone University, and The Timken Company)
- Cincinnati (home of University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Macy's Inc., Chiquita Brands International, and Fifth Third Bank)
- Cleveland (home of Cleveland State University, Playhouse Square Center, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Orchestra, Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Clinic, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Forest City Enterprises, and University Hospitals)
- Dayton (home of University of Dayton, Dayton Ballet, Wright State University, Premier Health Partners, and National Museum of the United States Air Force)
- Lima (home of University of Northwestern Ohio)
- Mansfield (home of North Central State College and Mansfield Motorsports Park)
- Sandusky (home of Cedar Point, and Kalahari Resort and Convention Center)
- Springfield (home of Wittenberg University)
- Steubenville (home of Franciscan University of Steubenville)
- Toledo (home of The University of Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Owens Corning, and Owens-Illinois)
- Youngstown (home of Youngstown State University and Butler Institute of American Art).
Note: The Cincinnati metropolitan area extends into Kentucky and Indiana, the Steubenville metropolitan area extends into West Virginia, and the Youngstown metropolitan area extends into Pennsylvania.
Ohio cities that function as centers of United States micropolitan areas include:
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- Ashland (home of Ashland University)
- Ashtabula
- Athens (home of Ohio University)
- Bellefontaine
- Bucyrus
- Cambridge
- Celina
- Chillicothe (home of Ohio University-Chillicothe)
- Coshocton
- Defiance (home of Defiance College)
- East Liverpool-Salem
- Findlay (home of The University of Findlay)
- Fremont
- Greenville
- Marion (home of Marion Popcorn Festival)
- Mount Vernon (home of Mount Vernon Nazarene University)
- New Philadelphia-Dover
- Norwalk (home of the NHRA venue Summit Motorsports Park, headquarters of the International Hot Rod Association, and pioneer automobile company Fisher Body)
- Oxford (home of Miami University)
- Portsmouth (home of Shawnee State University)
- Sidney
- Tiffin (home of Heidelberg College and Tiffin University)
- Urbana (home of Urbana University)
- Van Wert
- Wapakoneta (birthplace of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong)
- Washington Court House
- Wilmington (home of Wilmington College)
- Wooster (home of The College of Wooster)
- Zanesville (home of Zane State College).
History[link]
Main article: History of Ohio
Native Americans[link]
Archeological evidence suggests that the Ohio Valley was inhabited by nomadic people as early as 13,000 BC.[46] These early nomads disappeared from Ohio by 1,000 BC, "but their material culture provided a base for those who followed them".[46] Between 1,000 and 800 BC, the sedentary Adena culture emerged. As Ohio historian George W. Knepper notes, this sophisticated culture was "so named because evidences of their culture were excavated in 1902 on the grounds of Adena, Thomas Worthington's estate located near Chillicothe".[47] The Adena were able to establish "semi-permanent" villages because they domesticated plants, which included squash, sunflowers, and perhaps corn. Cultivation of these in addition to hunting and gathering supported more settled, complex villages.[47] The most spectacular remnant of the Adena culture is the Great Serpent Mound, located in Adams County, Ohio.[47]
Around 100 BC, the Adena were joined in Ohio Country by the Hopewell people, who were named for the farm owned by Captain M. C. Hopewell, where evidence of their unique culture was discovered.[48] Like the Adena, the Hopewell people participated in a mound-building culture. Their complex, large and technologically sophisticated earthworks can be found in modern-day Marietta, Newark, and Circleville.[48] The Hopewell, however, disappeared from the Ohio Valley in about 600 AD. Little is known about the people who replaced them.[49] Researchers have identified two additional, distinct prehistoric cultures: the Fort Ancient people and the Whittlesey Focus people.[49] Both cultures apparently disappeared in the 17th century, perhaps decimated by infectious diseases spread in epidemics from early European contact. The Native Americans had no immunity to common European diseases. Some scholars believe that the Fort Ancient people "were ancestors of the historic Shawnee people, or that, at the very least, the historic Shawnees absorbed remnants of these older peoples."[49]
American Indians in the Ohio Valley were greatly affected by the aggressive tactics of the Iroquois Confederation, based in central and western New York.[50] After the so-called Beaver Wars in the mid-17th century, the Iroquois claimed much of the Ohio country as hunting and, more importantly, beaver-trapping ground. After the devastation of epidemics and war in the mid-17th century, which largely emptied the Ohio country of indigenous people by the mid-to-late 17th century, the land gradually became repopulated by the mostly Algonquian-speaking descendants of its ancient inhabitants, that is, descendants of the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures. Many of these Ohio-country nations were multi-ethnic (sometimes multi-linguistic) societies born out of the earlier devastation brought about by disease, war, and subsequent social instability. They subsisted on agriculture (corn, sunflowers, beans, etc.) supplemented by seasonal hunts. By the 18th century, they were part of a larger global economy brought about by European entry into the fur trade.[51]
The indigenous nations to inhabit Ohio in the historical period included the Miamis (a large confederation); Wyandots (made up of refugees, especially from the fractured Huron confederacy); Delawares (pushed west from their historic homeland in New Jersey); Shawnees (also pushed west, although they may have been descended from the Fort Ancient people of Ohio); Ottawas (more commonly associated with the upper Great Lakes region); Mingos (like the Wyandot, a group recently formed of refugees from Iroquois); and Eries (gradually absorbed into the new, multi-ethnic "republics," namely the Wyandot).[52] Ohio country was also the site of Indian massacres, such as the Yellow Creek Massacre, Gnadenhutten and Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre.[53]
Colonial and Revolutionary eras[link]
During the 18th century, the French set up a system of trading posts to control the fur trade in the region. In 1754, France and Great Britain fought a war that was known in North America as the French and Indian War and in Europe as the Seven Years War. As a result of the Treaty of Paris, the French ceded control of Ohio and the remainder of the Old Northwest to Great Britain.
Pontiac's Rebellion in the 1760s, however, posed a challenge to British military control.[54] This came to an end with the colonists' victory in the American Revolution. In the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Britain ceded all claims to Ohio country to the United States.
Northwest Territory: 1787–1803[link]
The United States created the Northwest Territory under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.[55] Slavery was not permitted in the new territory. Settlement began with the founding of Marietta by the Ohio Company of Associates, which had been formed by a group of American Revolutionary War veterans. Following the Ohio Company, the Miami Company (also referred to as the "Symmes Purchase") claimed the southwestern section, and the Connecticut Land Company surveyed and settled the Connecticut Western Reserve in present-day Northeast Ohio.
The old Northwest Territory originally included areas previously known as Ohio Country and Illinois Country. As Ohio prepared for statehood, the Indiana Territory was created, reducing the Northwest Territory to approximately the size of present-day Ohio plus the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula.
Under the Northwest Ordinance, areas of the territory could be defined and admitted as states once their population reached 60,000. Although Ohio's population numbered only 45,000 in December 1801, Congress determined that the population was growing rapidly and Ohio could begin the path to statehood. The assumption was that it would exceed 60,000 residents by the time it was admitted as a state.
Statehood: 1803–present[link]
On February 19, 1803, President Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution. However, Congress had never passed a resolution formally admitting Ohio as the 17th state. The current custom of Congress declaring an official date of statehood did not begin until 1812, with Louisiana's admission as the 18th state. Although no formal resolution of admission was required, when the oversight was discovered in 1953, Ohio congressman George H. Bender introduced a bill in Congress to admit Ohio to the Union retroactive to March 1, 1803. At a special session at the old state capital in Chillicothe, the Ohio state legislature approved a new petition for statehood that was delivered to Washington, D.C. on horseback. On August 7, 1953 (the year of Ohio's 150th anniversary), President Eisenhower signed an act that officially declared March 1, 1803 the date of Ohio's admittance into the Union.[56][57]
Although many Native Americans had migrated west to evade American encroachment, others remained settled in the state, sometimes assimilating in part. In 1830 under President Andrew Jackson, the US government forced Indian Removal of most tribes to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
In 1835, Ohio fought with Michigan in the Toledo War, a mostly bloodless boundary war over the Toledo Strip. Congress intervened, making Michigan's admittance as a state conditional on ending the conflict. In exchange for giving up its claim to the Toledo Strip, Michigan was given the western two-thirds of the Upper Peninsula, in addition to the eastern third that was already considered part of the state.
Ohio's central position and its population gave it an important place during the Civil War. The Ohio River was a vital artery for troop and supply movements, as were Ohio's railroads. Ohio contributed more soldiers per-capita than any other state in the Union. In 1862, the state's morale was badly shaken in the aftermath of the battle of Shiloh, a costly victory in which Ohio forces suffered 2,000 casualties.[58] Later that year, when Confederate troops under the leadership of Stonewall Jackson threatened Washington, D.C., Ohio governor David Tod still could recruit 5,000 volunteers to provide three months of service.[59] Ohio historian Andrew R. L. Cayton writes that almost 35,000 Ohioans died in the conflict, "and some thirty thousand carried battle scars with them for the rest of their lives."[60] By the end of the Civil War, the Union's top three generals–Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Philip Sheridan–were all from Ohio.[61][62]
In 1912 a Constitutional Convention was held with Charles B. Galbreath as secretary. The result reflected the concerns of the Progressive Era. It introduced the initiative and the referendum. In addition, it allowed the General Assembly to put questions on the ballot for the people to ratify laws and constitutional amendments originating in the Legislature. Under the Jeffersonian principle that laws should be reviewed once a generation, the constitution provided for a recurring question to appear on Ohio's general election ballots every 20 years. The question asks whether a new convention is required. Although the question has appeared in 1932, 1952, 1972, and 1992, it has never been approved. Instead constitutional amendments have been proposed by petition to the legislature hundreds of times and adopted in a majority of cases.
Eight U.S. presidents hailed from Ohio at the time of their elections, giving rise to its nickname "Mother of Presidents", a sobriquet it shares with Virginia. It is also termed "Modern Mother of Presidents,"[63] in contrast to Virginia's status as the origin of presidents earlier in American history. Seven presidents were born in Ohio, making it second to Virginia's eight. Virginia-born William Henry Harrison lived most of his life in Ohio and is also buried there. Harrison conducted his political career while living on the family compound, founded by his father-in-law, John Cleves Symmes, in North Bend, Ohio. The seven presidents born in Ohio were Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison (grandson of William Henry Harrison), William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding.
Demographics[link]
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1800 | 45,365 |
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| 1810 | 230,760 | 408.7% | |
| 1820 | 581,434 | 152.0% | |
| 1830 | 937,903 | 61.3% | |
| 1840 | 1,519,467 | 62.0% | |
| 1850 | 1,980,329 | 30.3% | |
| 1860 | 2,339,511 | 18.1% | |
| 1870 | 2,665,260 | 13.9% | |
| 1880 | 3,198,062 | 20.0% | |
| 1890 | 3,672,329 | 14.8% | |
| 1900 | 4,157,545 | 13.2% | |
| 1910 | 4,767,121 | 14.7% | |
| 1920 | 5,759,394 | 20.8% | |
| 1930 | 6,646,697 | 15.4% | |
| 1940 | 6,907,612 | 3.9% | |
| 1950 | 7,946,627 | 15.0% | |
| 1960 | 9,706,397 | 22.1% | |
| 1970 | 10,652,017 | 9.7% | |
| 1980 | 10,797,630 | 1.4% | |
| 1990 | 10,847,115 | 0.5% | |
| 2000 | 11,353,140 | 4.7% | |
| 2010 | 11,536,504 | 1.6% | |
| Source: 1910–2010[64] | |||
| By race | White | Black | AIAN* | Asian | NHPI* |
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| 2000 (total population) | 86.83% | 12.18% | 0.67% | 1.41% | 0.06% |
| 2000 (Hispanic only) | 1.70% | 0.19% | 0.05% | 0.02% | 0.01% |
| 2005 (total population) | 86.27% | 12.66% | 0.66% | 1.68% | 0.07% |
| 2005 (Hispanic only) | 2.05% | 0.20% | 0.05% | 0.03% | 0.01% |
| Growth 2000–05 (total population) | 0.32% | 4.98% | -1.57% | 20.32% | 9.32% |
| Growth 2000–05 (non-Hispanic only) | -0.11% | 4.97% | -1.96% | 20.48% | 11.15% |
| Growth 2000–05 (Hispanic only) | 22.11% | 5.70% | 3.04% | 10.81% | -0.26% |
| * AIAN is American Indian or Alaskan Native; NHPI is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | |||||
Population[link]
From just over 45,000 residents in 1800, Ohio's population grew at rates of over 10% per decade until the census of 1970, which recorded just over 10.65 million Ohioans.[65] Growth then slowed for the next four decades.[66] The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Ohio was 11,544,951 on July 1, 2011, a 0.07% increase since the 2010 United States Census.[5] Ohio's population growth lags that of the entire United States, and Caucasians are found in a greater density than the United States average. As of 2000[update], Ohio's center of population is located in Morrow County,[67] in the county seat of Mount Gilead.[68] This is approximately 6,346 feet (1,934 m) south and west of Ohio's population center in 1990.[67]
As of 2007[update], 6.5% of Ohio's population is under 5 years of age,[69] compared to a national rate of 6.9%.[70] Also, 13.4% of Ohio's population is over 65 years of age,[69] compared to a United States rate of 12.6%.[70] Females comprise 51.3% of Ohio's population,[69] compared to a national rate of 50.8%.[70]
As of 2007, 3.6% of Ohio's total population is estimated to be foreign-born,[71] compared to an estimated 12.5% of the United States population.[71]
Ohio's five largest ancestry groups, as of 2007, are:[72]
The American Community Survey for the U.S. Census for 2006 reported:[73]
- 82.8% White (non-Hispanic);
- 11.8% Black (non-Hispanic);
- 2.3% Hispanic, a category that includes people of many races;
- 1.5% Asian/Pacific Islander
- 1.3% mixed race
- 0.2% Native American/Alaskan Native
- 0.1% other races.
Religion[link]
According to a Pew Forum poll, as of 2008, 76% of Ohioans identified as Christian.[74] Specifically, 26% of Ohio's population identified as Evangelical Protestant, 22% identified as Mainline Protestant, and 21% identified as Roman Catholic.[74] In addition, 17% of the population is unaffiliated with any religious body.[74] There are also small minorities of Jehovah's Witnesses (1%), Jews (1%), Muslims (1%), Hindus (<0.5%), Buddhists (<0.5%), Mormons (<0.5%), and practitioners of other faiths (1-1.5%).[74]
According to the same data, a majority of Ohioans, 55%, feel that religion is "very important," while 30% say that it is "somewhat important," and 15% responded that religion is "not too important/not important at all."[74] Also, 36% of Ohioans indicate that they attend religious services at least once weekly, while 35% attend these services occasionally, and 27% seldom or never participate in these services.[74]
Economy[link]
Main article: Economy of Ohio
In 2010, Ohio was ranked No. 2 in the country for best business climate by Site Selection magazine, based on a business-activity database.[75] The state has also won three consecutive Governor's Cup awards from the magazine, based on business growth and developments.[76] As of 2010[update], Ohio's gross domestic product (GDP) was $478 billion.[77][78] This ranks Ohio's economy as the seventh-largest of all fifty states and the District of Columbia.[78]
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council ranked the state No. 10 for best business-friendly tax systems in their Business Tax Index 2009, including a top corporate tax and capital gains rate that were both ranked No. 6 at 1.9%.[79] Ohio was ranked No. 11 by the council for best friendly-policy states according to their Small Business Survival Index 2009.[80] The Directorship's Boardroom Guide ranked the state No. 13 overall for best business climate, including No. 7 for best litigation climate.[81] Forbes ranked the state No. 8 for best regulatory environment in 2009.[82] Ohio has 5 of the top 115 colleges in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2010 rankings,[83] and was ranked No. 8 by the same magazine in 2008 for best high schools.[84]
Ohio's unemployment rate stood at 10.7 in May 2010, adding 17,000 new jobs that month.[85][86] Ohio's per capita income stands at $34,874.[78][87] Moody's is predicting a 1.3% increase in personal income in 2009 for Ohio, compared to the 2007 rate of 4.7%.[78] As of 2007[update], Ohio's median household income is $46,645,[88] and 13.1% of the population is below the poverty line,[89] slightly above the national rate of 13%.[89] Ohio's employment base is expected to grow 5% from 2006 to 2016, a net gain of 290,700 jobs.[78]
The manufacturing and financial activities sectors each compose 18.3% of Ohio's GDP, making them Ohio's largest industries by percentage of GDP.[78] Ohio has the largest bioscience sector in the Midwest, and is a national leader in the "green" economy. Ohio is the largest producer in the country of plastics, rubber, fabricated metals, electrical equipment, and appliances.[90] 5,212,000 Ohioans are currently employed by wage or salary.[78]
By employment, Ohio's largest sector is trade/transportation/utilities, which employs 1,010,000 Ohioans, or 19.4% of Ohio's workforce, while the health care and education sector employs 825,000 Ohioans (15.8%).[78] Government employs 787,000 Ohioans (15.1%), manufacturing employs 669,000 Ohioans (12.9%), and professional and technical services employs 638,000 Ohioans (12.2%).[78] Ohio's manufacturing sector is the third-largest of all fifty United States states in terms of gross domestic product.[78] Fifty-nine of the United States' top 1,000 publicly traded companies (by revenue in 2008) are headquartered in Ohio, including Procter & Gamble, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, AK Steel, Timken, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Wendy's.[91]
Ohio is also one of 41 states with its own lottery,[92] the Ohio Lottery.[93] The Ohio Lottery has contributed over $15.5 billion to public education in its 34-year history.[94]
Transportation[link]
Ground Travel
Many major east-west transportation corridors go through Ohio. One of those pioneer routes, known in the early 20th century as "Main Market Route 3", was chosen in 1913 to become part of the historic Lincoln Highway which was the first road across America, connecting New York City to San Francisco. In Ohio, the Lincoln Highway linked many towns and cities together, including Canton, Mansfield, Wooster, Lima, and Van Wert. The arrival of the Lincoln Highway to Ohio was a major influence on the development of the state. Upon the advent of the federal numbered highway system in 1926, the Lincoln Highway through Ohio became U.S. Highway 30.
Ohio also is home to 228 miles (367 km) of the Historic National Road, now U.S. Route 40.
Ohio has a highly developed network of roads and interstate highways. Major east-west through routes include the Ohio Turnpike (I-80/I-90) in the north, I-76 through Akron to Pennsylvania, I-70 through Columbus and Dayton, and the Appalachian Highway (Ohio 32) running from West Virginia to Cincinnati. Major north-south routes include I-75 in the west through Toledo, Dayton, and Cincinnati, I-71 through the middle of the state from Cleveland through Columbus and Cincinnati into Kentucky, and I-77 in the eastern part of the state from Cleveland through Akron, Canton, New Philadelphia and Marietta down into West Virginia. Interstate 75 between Cincinnati and Dayton is one of the heaviest traveled sections of interstate in Ohio.
Air Travel
Ohio has 5 international airports, 4 commercial and 2 military. The 5 international includes Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, which is a major hub for Continental Airlines, Port Columbus International Airport, and Dayton International Airport, Ohio's third largest airport. Akron Fulton International Airport handles cargo and for private use. Rickenbacker International Airport is one of military which is also home to the 7th largest fed ex building in America. The other military airport is Wright Patterson Air Force Base which is one of the largest Air Force bases in the United States. Other major airports are located in Toledo and Akron.
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is in Hebron, Kentucky and therefore is not listed above.
See also: List of airports in Ohio
Transportation lists[link]
- List of Ohio state highways
- List of Ohio train stations
- List of Ohio railroads
- List of Ohio rivers
- Historic Ohio Canals
Law and government[link]
Main article: Government of Ohio
The state government of Ohio consists of the executive,[95] judicial,[96] and legislative[97] branches.
Executive branch[link]
The executive branch is headed by the Governor of Ohio.[95] The current governor is John Kasich,[10] a Republican elected in 2010. A lieutenant governor succeeds the governor in the event of any removal from office,[98] and performs any duties assigned by the governor.[99] The current lieutenant governor is Mary Taylor. The other elected constitutional offices in the executive branch are the secretary of state (Jon A. Husted), auditor (Dave Yost), treasurer (Josh Mandel), and attorney general (Mike DeWine).[95]
Judicial branch[link]
There are three levels of the Ohio state judiciary. The lowest level is the court of common pleas: each county maintains its own constitutionally-mandated court of common pleas, which maintain jurisdiction over "all justiciable matters."[100] The intermediate-level court system is the district court system.[101] Twelve courts of appeals exist, each retaining jurisdiction over appeals from common pleas, municipal, and county courts in a set geographical area.[100] A case heard in this system is decided by a three-judge panel, and each judge is elected.[100]
The highest-ranking court, the Ohio Supreme Court, is Ohio's "court of last resort."[102] A seven-justice panel composes the court, which, by its own discretion, hears appeals from the courts of appeals, and retains original jurisdiction over limited matters.[103]
Legislative branch[link]
The Ohio General Assembly is a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives.[105] The Senate is composed of 33 districts, each of which is represented by one senator.[106] Each senator represents approximately 330,000 constituents.[106] The House of Representatives is composed of 99 members.[107]
National politics[link]
See also: Politics of Ohio, Political party strength in Ohio, Ohio Democratic Party, and Ohio Republican Party
| Year | Republican | Democratic |
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| 2008 | 46.80% 2,677,820 | 51.38% 2,940,044 |
| 2004 | 50.81% 2,859,768 | 48.71% 2,741,167 |
| 2000 | 49.97% 2,351,209 | 46.46% 2,186,190 |
| 1996 | 41.02% 1,859,883 | 47.38% 2,148,222 |
| 1992 | 38.35% 1,894,310 | 40.18% 1,984,942 |
| 1988 | 55.00% 2,416,549 | 44.15% 1,939,629 |
| 1984 | 58.90% 2,678,560 | 40.14% 1,825,440 |
| 1980 | 51.51% 2,206,545 | 40.91% 1,752,414 |
| 1976 | 48.65% 2,000,505 | 48.92% 2,011,621 |
| 1972 | 59.63% 2,441,827 | 38.07% 1,558,889 |
| 1968 | 45.23% 1,791,014 | 42.95% 1,700,586 |
| 1964 | 37.06% 1,470,865 | 62.94% 2,498,331 |
| 1960 | 53.28% 2,217,611 | 46.72% 1,944,248 |
Ohio, nicknamed the "Mother of Presidents," has sent seven of its native sons (Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, and Warren G. Harding) to the White House.[109] All seven were Republicans. Virginia native William Henry Harrison, a Whig, resided in Ohio.[109] Historian R. Douglas Hurt asserts that not since Virginia 'had a state made such a mark on national political affairs.'[110] The Economist notes that "This slice of the mid-west contains a bit of everything American — part north-eastern and part southern, part urban and part rural, part hardscrabble poverty and part booming suburb,"[111]
As of 2008[update], Ohio's voter demographic leans towards the Democratic Party.[112] An estimated 2,408,178 Ohioans are registered to vote as Democrats, while 1,471,465 Ohioans are registered to vote as Republicans.[112] These are changes from 2004 of 72% and 32%, respectively, and Democrats have registered over 1,000,000 new Ohioans since 2004.[112] Unaffiliated voters have an attrition of 15% since 2004, losing an estimated 718,000 of their kind.[112] The total now rests at 4,057,518 Ohioans.[112] In total, there are 7,937,161 Ohioans registered to vote.[112] In the United States presidential election of 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won 51.50% of Ohio's popular vote, 4.59% more than his nearest rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona.[113] However, Obama won only 22 of Ohio's 88 counties.[114]
Following the 2000 census, Ohio lost one congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, which leaves Ohio with 18 districts, and consequently, 18 representatives. The state is expected to lose two more seats following the 2010 Census.[115] The 2008 elections, Democrats gained three seats in Ohio's delegation to the House of Representatives.[116] This leaves eight Republican-controlled seats in the Ohio delegation.[117] Ohio's U.S. Senators in the 112th Congress are Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Sherrod Brown.[118] Marcia Kaptur (D-9) is the dean, or most senior member, of the Ohio delegation to the United States House of Representatives.[119]
Education[link]
Ohio's system of public education is outlined in Article VI of the state constitution, and in Title XXXIII of the Ohio Revised Code. Substantively, Ohio's system is similar to those found in other states. At the State level, the Ohio Department of Education, which is overseen by the Ohio State Board of Education, governs primary and secondary educational institutions. At the municipal level, there are approximately 700 school districts statewide. The Ohio Board of Regents coordinates and assists with Ohio's institutions of higher education which have recently been reorganized into the University System of Ohio under Governor Strickland. The system averages an annual enrollment of over 400,000 students, making it one of the five largest state university systems in the U.S.
Colleges and universities[link]
Main article: List of colleges and universities in Ohio
- 13 state universities
- The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
- Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
- Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio
- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
- The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio
- University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
- Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (Fairborn, Ohio)
- Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
- 24 state university branch and regional campuses
- 46 private colleges and universities a b
- 6 free-standing state-assisted medical schools
- University of Toledo College of Medicine (formerly Medical University of Ohio)
- Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
- The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health
- Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- Boonshoft School of Medicine (formerly known as The Wright State University School of Medicine)
- 15 community colleges
- 8 technical colleges
- 24 independent non-profit colleges
- a Included among these is the University of Dayton, which is the largest private university in Ohio.
- b Two of these institutions are ranked among the top 40 in the nation by US News & World Report: Case Western Reserve University (private national university), and Oberlin College (private liberal arts college).
Libraries[link]
Ohio is home to some of the nation's highest-ranking public libraries.[120] The 2008 study by Thomas J. Hennen Jr. ranked Ohio as number one in a state-by-state comparison.[121] For 2008, 31 of Ohio's library systems were all ranked in the top ten for American cities of their population category.[120]
- 500,000 or more
- Columbus Metropolitan Library (First)
- Cuyahoga County Public Library (Second)
- Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (Tenth)
The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is an organization that provides Ohio residents with internet access to their 251 public libraries. OPLIN also provides Ohioans with free home access to high-quality, subscription research databases.
Ohio also offers the OhioLINK program, allowing Ohio's libraries (particularly those from colleges and universities) access to materials in other libraries. The program is largely successful in allowing researchers access to books and other media that might not otherwise be available.
Sports[link]
Professional sports[link]
Ohio is home to major professional sports teams in baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer. The state's major professional sporting teams include: Cincinnati Reds (Major League Baseball),[122] Cleveland Indians (Major League Baseball),[123] Cincinnati Bengals (National Football League),[124] Cleveland Browns (National Football League),[124] Cleveland Cavaliers (National Basketball Association),[125] Columbus Blue Jackets (National Hockey League),[126] and the Columbus Crew (Major League Soccer).[127]
Ohio played a central role in the development of both Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Baseball's first fully professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869, were organized in Ohio.[128] An informal early 20th century American football association, the Ohio League, was the direct predecessor of the NFL, although neither of Ohio's modern NFL franchises trace their roots to an Ohio League club. The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton.
On a smaller scale, Ohio hosts minor league baseball, arena football, indoor football, mid-level hockey, and lower division soccer. The minor league baseball teams include: Akron Aeros (affiliated with the Cleveland Indians), Chillicothe Paints (independent), Columbus Clippers (affiliated with the Cleveland Indians), Dayton Dragons (affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds), Lake County Captains[129] (affiliated with the Cleveland Indians), Mahoning Valley Scrappers[130] (affiliated with the Cleveland Indians), and Toledo Mud Hens[131] (affiliated with the Detroit Tigers).
Ohio's minor professional football teams include: Canton Legends (American Indoor Football Association), Cincinnati Marshals (National Indoor Football League), Cincinnati Sizzle (National Women's Football Association), Cleveland Fusion (National Women's Football Association), Cleveland Gladiators (Arena Football League), Columbus Comets (National Women's Football Association), Columbus Destroyers (Arena Football League), Mahoning Valley Thunder (af2), Marion Mayhem (Continental Indoor Football League), and Miami Valley Silverbacks (Continental Indoor Football League).
Ohio's alternative professional hockey teams include: Cincinnati Cyclones (ECHL), Lake Erie Monsters (American Hockey League), Dayton Gems (Central Hockey League), Mahoning Valley Phantoms (North American Hockey League), Toledo Walleye (ECHL), and Youngstown Steelhounds (Central Hockey League).
In lower division professional soccer, Ohio accommodates the Cincinnati Kings and Cleveland City Stars, both of the United Soccer League and the Dayton Dutch Lions of the USL Premier Development League.
Ohio is also home to the Akron Racers, a minor professional softball club, of National Pro Fastpitch.
Former major league teams:
- Akron Pros (NFL) (1920–1925)
- Canton Bulldogs (NFL) (1920–1923 and 1925–1926)
- Portsmouth Spartans (NFL) (1930–1933)
- Cincinnati Red Stockings (NL) (1876–1880)
- Cleveland Blues (NL) (1879–1884)
- Cleveland Spiders (AA-NL) (1887–1899)
- Cleveland Rams (NFL) (1936–1945)
- Cleveland Rebels (BAA) (1946–1947)
- Cincinnati Royals (NBA) (1957–1972)
- Cleveland Barons (NHL) (1976–1978)
- Cleveland Crusaders (WHA)(1972–1976)
- Cincinnati Stingers (WHA) (1975–1979).
- Dayton Triangles (NFL) (1920–1929)
- Cleveland Rockers (WNBA) (1997–2003)
College football[link]
Ohio has eight NCAA Division I-A college football teams, divided among three different conferences. It has also experienced considerable success in the secondary and tertiary tiers of college football divisions.
In Division I-A, representing the Big Ten, the Ohio State Buckeyes football team ranks 5th among all-time winningest programs, with seven national championships and seven Heisman Trophy winners. Their biggest are rivals are the Michigan Wolverines, whom they traditionally play each year as the last game of their regular season schedule.
Ohio has six teams represented in the Mid-American Conference: the University of Akron, Bowling Green, Kent State, Miami University, Ohio University and the University of Toledo. The MAC headquarters are based in Cleveland.
The University of Cincinnati Bearcats represent Ohio in the Big East Conference.
Division I-AA Youngstown State is a perennial power in the Missouri Valley Football Conference, having won four FCS National Championships.
Division III Mount Union College boasts a record-setting ten National Championships and also hold the record for 110 consecutive game winning streak from 1994 until 2005. They have won two of the last three D-III National Championship games.
State symbols[link]
Main article: List of Ohio state symbols
See also: Lists of U.S. state insignia
Ohio's state symbols:
- State animal: White-tailed Deer (1987)[132]
- State beverage: Tomato juice (1965)[132]
- State bird: Cardinal (1933)[132]
- State capital: Columbus[3] (1816)[133]
- State flower: Red carnation (1904)[132]
- State fossil: Isotelus maximus, a trilobite (1985)[132]
- State herb capital: Gahanna (1972)[134]
- State insect: Ladybug (1975)[132]
- State motto: "With God all things are possible." (1959)[135]
- State reptile: Black racer snake (1995)[132]
- State rock song: "Hang On Sloopy" (1985)[136]
- State song: "Beautiful Ohio" (1969)[132]
- State stone: Ohio Flint (1965)[132]
- State tree: Buckeye (1953)[132]
- State wildflower: Large white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) (1986)[132]
See also[link]
- Outline of Ohio
- Index of Ohio-related articles
- List of National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
- List of people from Ohio
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The Instructor was an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1930 and 1970, during which time it was the official organ of the LDS Church's Sunday School auxiliary.
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The Instructor began publication in 1930, when the Sunday School ceased publication of The Juvenile Instructor, its official publication since 1901. Like its predecessor, The Instructor was targeted primarily at the LDS Church's youth and young adult membership. The first editor of the periodical was George D. Pyper, a member of the general superintendency of the Deseret Sunday School Union.
With the implementation of the Priesthood Correlation Program, The Instructor ceased publication in 1970. Although the Sunday School did not replace it with an official publication, in 1971 the LDS Church began publishing the New Era for youth and the Ensign for adults.
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Akron /ˈækrən/ is the fifth largest city in Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately 39 miles (63 km) south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area covers Summit and Portage counties, and in 2010 had a population of 703,200. Akron is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2010 had a population of 2,780,440.
Akron was co-founded in 1825 when suggested by Paul Williams to Simon Perkins. In 1833, "South" was temporarily added to the name when Eliakim Crosby settled a bordering North Akron. After Summit County formed from portions of Portage, Medina, and Stark counties in 1840, Akron succeeded Cuyahoga Falls as county seat a year later. The Akron School Law of 1847 created the K-12 system. In 1851, Sojourner Truth attended a convention and extemporaneously delivered the original "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. During the Civil War, Ferdinand Schumacher supplied the Union Army with oats produced by his mill along the Ohio Canal. Between the 1870's and World War I, numerous churches across the nation were built using the Akron Plan.
