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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens (70 acres) is a historic house museum in Akron, Ohio. The estate includes gardens, a greenhouse, carriage house, and the main mansion, one of the largest houses in the United States. [2] A National Historic Landmark, it is nationally significant as the home of F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and ...
Akron is located at the crossroad of SR 14 and SR 19. Akron was originally named Newark by settlers from Newark, Ohio; the name was changed to Akron in 1855, for the Ohio city. [3] It was founded by Dr. Joseph Sippy on July 4, 1836 [4] when he brought a group of settlers to what was then the crossing of the Pottawatomie and Miami Indian trails.
History. The Summit County Historical Society (SCHS) was founded in 1924 by the Cuyahoga Portage chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to celebrate the centennial of the City of Akron. In 1929, the Society acquired its first property, the Old Stone School on South Broadway. The 1840 stone school building was donated by the City of ...
Patrons requested membership tickets, an early version of library cards. Despite it being a public library, the public wasn’t always so welcome. Mary Pauline Edgerton (1858-1931) was head ...
The Akron portrait was taken at the North Hill home of Micah S. Rudgers (1845-1932) and his wife, Allah Fessenden Rudgers (1845-1934). They lived on North Howard Street with their daughter, Mabel ...
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December 16, 1971. The Seiberling Mansion is a historic house located at Kokomo, Indiana, United States. In 1887, Monroe Seiberling of Akron, Ohio, traveled to Kokomo to open the Kokomo Strawboard Company, which would make shoe boxes out of straw and employ seventy-five people. Within six months, Seiberling, uncle of Goodyear Tire and Rubber ...
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