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Akron Baptist Temple was established by Dallas F. Billington, a Kentucky native who moved to Akron in 1925. Billington, born in 1903, was the son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer. A Goodyear Tire employee, Billington studied theology at a Baptist correspondence school while working at a shoe factory in Paducah, Kentucky. Prior to the establishment ...
Billington quit Goodyear and organized Akron Baptist Temple on Easter 1935 with more than 80 charter members. Months later, over 500 people belonged. In 1937, they built a $60,000 church near Rimer.
Akron Baptist Temple sold the church and its 29 acres in June 2018 for $1.5 million to The Word Church. Overextended and underattended, The Word put a $3.9 million for-sale sign on the location up ...
Akron's plan to level the site of one of the country's first megachurches is moving full speed ahead. The former Akron Baptist Temple campus, most recently known as The Word Church, is just a few ...
4019 Manchester Rd, Akron Founded in 1943 [47] St. John the Baptist 1034 Brown St, Akron Founded in 1907 for Slovak immigrants. [48] St. Mary 750 S Main St, Akron [49] St. Matthew 2603 Benton Ave, Akron Founded in 1943, church dedicated in 1946 [50] St. Paul 433 Mission Dr, Akron Founded in 1919, church dedicated in 2003 [51] St. Sebastian
The city of Akron is the location of 63 of these properties and districts, including 2 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the 124 sites and 1 National Historic Landmark located elsewhere in Summit County are listed separately. One district, the Valley Railway Historic District, is split between Akron and other parts ...
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Vernon L. Odom, Sr. (9 June 1921 – 22 May 1996) was an American civil rights leader. He was born in Biscoe, Arkansas to Dr. Elijah and Ada Odom. His father was born into slavery in 1859 and later became a physician, his mother was a teacher and raised the children on her own after Elijah Odom's death in 1924.