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Akron, Ohio. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Summit. Associated ZIP codes: 44301, 44302, 44303, 44304, 44305, 44306, 44307, 44308, 44309, 44310, 44311, 44312, 44313, 44314, 44315, 44316, 44317, 44319, 44320, 44321, 44325, 44326, 44328, 44333, 44372, 44396, 44398.
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Deborah Ellen (Wright) Pettyjohn, 72, passed away Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. Born Nov. 13, 1953, in Akron, Ohio, Debbie leaves behind her fiancé, Mike Perment...
The Ohio volleyball team (10-4, 3-0 MAC) defeated Akron (6-9, 1-2 MAC) 3-1 (25-23, 25-16, 16-25, 25-16) on Friday, marking the Bobcats first conference win i...
Democratic Ohio Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a former three-term U.S. senator, speaks at a campaign event in Akron on July 16.
AKRON — For three decades, Badin baseball carried the expectations that come with one of Ohio’s most successful programs.
AKRON — For three decades, Badin baseball carried the expectations that come with one of Ohio’s most successful programs.
FILE - Ex-FirstEnergy Senior Vice President Michael Dowling and former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones listen as Summit County Common Pleas Judge Susan Baker Ros...
Investigators have released the names of the two people who died after a small plane crashed into a home in Akron earlier this month.
The B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio announced the development of the first tubeless tire.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The despondent Ohio State fans who began streaming toward the exits with 12:51 remaining in the game -- on the heels of a sack taken by ove...
Strongsville voters approved a new levy to hire 12 firefighter-paramedics, North Royalton passed a renewal and increase generating $2.27 million annually, an...
The crash occurred at about 8 p.m. Friday in the area of Yorba Linda Boulevard and Ohio Street.
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Akron is in Summit County, Ohio.
Region: Northern Ohio
44301, 44302, 44303, 44304, 44305, 44306, 44307, 44308, 44309, 44310, 44311, 44312, 44313, 44314, 44315, 44316, 44317, 44319, 44320, 44321, 44325, 44326, 44328, 44333, 44372, 44396, 44398
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The despondent Ohio State fans who began streaming toward the exits with 12:51 remaining in the game -- on the heels of a sack taken by ove...
Strongsville voters approved a new levy to hire 12 firefighter-paramedics, North Royalton passed a renewal and increase generating $2.27 million annually, an...
The crash occurred at about 8 p.m. Friday in the area of Yorba Linda Boulevard and Ohio Street.
Major Miner Spicer of Groton, Connecticut, built the first log cabin in the Akron area in 1810, and his family followed by ox team in 1811. That year Paul Williams settled near today's Buchtel Avenue and Broadway and suggested to General Simon Perkins, surveyor for the Connecticut Land Company, that they found a town at the summit of the planned Ohio and Erie Canal. The town was laid out in December 1825 and named from the Greek akron, "summit," and Irish canal workers built about 100 cabins nearby. Eliakim Crosby founded North Akron, or Cascade, in 1833, and the two towns merged and were incorporated as a village in 1836. Akron became the seat of the new Summit County in 1841.
The abolitionist John Brown moved into a house across from his business partner Simon Perkins in 1844. The Akron School Law of 1847 created the city's public schools and the graded K-12 system now used in every state. At the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851, Sojourner Truth gave her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Old Stone Church. Ferdinand Schumacher bought a mill in 1856 and made oat products for the Union Army. Akron became a city in 1865, John R. Buchtel founded Buchtel College, now the University of Akron, in 1870, and the Akron Plan for church buildings debuted in 1872. The Akron Toy Company of 1883 is credited with starting the modern toy industry, and Samuel C. Dyke soon mass-produced clay marbles. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Akron became the Rubber Capital of the World, home of B.F. Goodrich, Firestone, General Tire and Goodyear, and a center of airship building. Sources Wikipedia: Akron, Ohio
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