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the first section of the Acron (1825)

In 1811, Paul Williams, a surveyor of the Connecticut land company, and Simon Perkins, a general of the Connecticut West Reservation Yard, settled in a place where there was an intersection between Buchtel Avenue and Broadway Street in the present Acron City, and proposed the creation of a settlement in this place, the highest point of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which was drilling at that time. The name of the settlement was given in Greek from the κρον, which means 'the top' or 'the high.' In 1825, the area corresponding to the present South Acron area was then divided, and about 100 buildings, huts of Irish workers who were engaged in excavating the Ohio Canal, were built near the area. Then, in 1833, Elikim Crosby founded 'North Acron' and in 1836, two of South Acron North Acron merged to become a formal corporation as a village called Acron.

In 1840, when Summit County was established by dividing and reorganizing a part of Portage, Medina, and Stark, respectively, Summit County Assembly designated Kayahoga Falls as the location of the county office in the following year, 1841, but the state council overturned it and ordered the location of the county office to be decided based on a referendum. As a result, Guncho was placed in Acron. At that time, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, which runs from Acron to Beaver, Pennsylvania, opened and stoneware, sewer pipes, fishing equipment and agricultural tools were found. In 1847, the Acron School Act was established, and it was the pioneer of education based on the K-12 school year system, which is now used throughout the United States.

On the Eve of the Civil War to the Town of Climax

On the eve of the Civil War in Akron, two prominent activists against slavery played an active role. In 1844, John Browne moved his house to the opposite side of the mansion of Simon Perkins, a joint enterprise, and made Acron the base of his operations. In 1851, the Ohio Women's Rights Championship was held in Acron, and Sojana Truce made a speech, without manuscripts, which would later be called "Am I not a woman?"

the statue of John R. Buchtel standing on the campus of Achron University

In 1870, Buchtel College of the Universialist Church was founded with the investment of John R. Buchtel, a local business man and philanthropist, and the predecessor of Achron University. At this time, two philanthropists, Luis Miller and Walter Bryce, and architect Jacob Snyder, established a design pattern called Achron Plan and built the Achron's First Methodist Supervision Church in 1872, using this style for the first time. After that, until World War I, many churches of Congregationals, Baptists, and Presbyterian sects were built using this style.

Around the time of the Civil War, inventions were invented one after another in Acron, and modern industries were also established. Ferdinand Schumacher acquired the factory in 1856 and mass-produced oats' bars, and supplied them to the Northern Army during the Civil War. Even after the end of the Civil War, demand for the bar increased. In 1883, a local journalist established Akron Toy Company and started a modern toy manufacturing business. In the following year, 1884, Samuel C. Dike produced a large quantity of beads made of clay. In addition to these, rubber balloons, duck toys, dolls, balls, buffer devices for baby carriage, small brown bottles, etc., were invented in Acron. In 1895, the Acron Bedford and Cleveland Railroad, an interurban 35.5-mile (57.1 km) long, was opened to connect Acron and Cleveland. In 1899, the city authorities deployed the first U.S. patrol car to the local police. Between 1916 and 1920, 10,000 female students participated in an experiment known later as the "acron experiment" in which iodine was added to salt to prevent goiter. The experiment was successful and later led to a drastic reduction in goiter caused by iodine deficiency throughout the world. The Boston Daily Globe newspaper recently called Acron the Summit City.

1900 Akron riots

On August 21, 1900, a black man was arrested for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old white girl and confessed the next morning. The local newspaper exaggerated the confession and inflamed the whole city with indignation and hatred. Eventually, on the night of the 22nd, the situation developed into a riot. The city government office was burned down in this riot, and two people were killed, and it was necessary to mobilize the local soldiers to suppress the riot. During the riot, the black man was escorted to Cleveland, tried without a lawyer on 24th and sentenced to life imprisonment. Later in 1913, the black man was pardoned by the governor of the province for being imprisoned without a fair trial.

The World's Rubber City

Goodyear Headquarters Factory (circa 1930-45)

When the truck transportation business was born in the United States, Acron was called Rubber Capital of the World (the world's rubber city). Starting with Goodrich, which was founded in 1870, Goodyear, Fireston (now owned by Bridgestone America), which was founded in 1900, General Tire (now owned by Continental Tire), which was founded in 1915, and four tire manufacturers, which were founded in turn, started their business in Akron, and their headquarters were established. These tire manufacturers developed residential areas in response to the growing housing demand and built inexpensive housing for workers. Frank Saberling, the founder and president of Goodyear, developed the Goodyear Heights district to build houses for his company's employees. Similarly, Harvey Firestone developed the Firestone Park area.

In 1917, Goodyear established a subsidiary company, Goodyear Zeppelin, and started building Zeppelin-type airships. The airship that the company built was first used to bomb and scouting enemy sites in World War I, while the company was also using it to advertise its products. During World War II, the company built 104 military airships. After the end of World War II, the airship of the company was exclusively used for advertising. One of the airships was named Acron after the place.

In the decade of the 1910s, Acron has grown at a population growth rate of 201.8%, making it the largest-ever-growing city in the United States. In the 1920 Population Census, the population of Acron was 208,435, making it 32nd in the U.S., and in the U.S. it was thinned to Toledo (243,164, 26th in the U.S.) and Columbus (237,031, 28th in the U.S.). About one third of Achron's population was immigrants or descendants, including Clark Goeble. In 1928, Acron merged Kenmore on the basis of the results of the referendum and increased its population.

However, work problems have also occurred because of the high growth of industrial cities. In 1935, Acron's tire factory workers, who had been forced to work at low wages in poor conditions, started a labor union called the United Rubber Workers. In the following year of 1936, Goodyear announced plans to cut wages and increase production, and workers at the company went on strike in the factory to protest the news. Since the factory was occupied, the company could not continue production by hiring so-called "strikethrough" workers on a temporary basis, and the management had to be reluctant to send security guards for fear of destruction of the factory facilities. The mayor mobilized the police to try to settle the situation, but the police refused to go out. Soon Goodyear recognized the United Rubber Workers and had to deal with labor-management negotiations under more favorable conditions for the workers.

Decline and Legacy

In the 1950s, after World War II, due to the increasing demand for tires due to motorization, the Acron slowed down its speed compared to the first half of the 20th century, but in 1960 it reached its peak with a population of 290,351 (45th place in the United States). However, after that, like many other industrial cities located in the last belt, Akron declined and the population turned to decline. The tire manufacturing industry, which supported Achron's regional economy, was also purchased to leave Achron's town and only one Goodyear remained in Achron until the 21st century.

Goodyear Polymer Center

However, the tire manufacturing industry left a legacy of research infrastructure in Acron's town. The presence of the research infrastructure has led to the transformation of Acron into a city of polymers that can be applied not only to tires and plastics, but also to lubricants, ultra-strong fibers, and liquid crystal displays. In the 21st century, Acron became the center of the 400 polymer-related companies Polymer Valley, and 94 companies are located in Acron's area alone. The Goodyear Polymer Center is located on Achron University's campus, and researchers are working to apply it to the high-tech field.

In 2007, for the first time in the United States of America, Acron and Schmac BIOGAS Corporation in Germany built a facility to produce and generate biogas from sludge of sewage. The biogas produced in the facility contains about 60% methane and about 35% carbon dioxide.

In 2008, Acron received the third U.S. City Award, which led to the City of Invention (the town of invention). Between 2008 and 2012, the water quality was improved after the Little Kayahoga-gawa River was renovated, which had lost its self-cleaning capability during the long-term industrialization of the city, converted into the 'Dobu-gawa River' and became the cause of the deterioration of water quality in the downstream Kayahoga-gawa River. On the other hand, there are problems with the university's four-year system, as well as low graduation rates for community and technical colleges, and the lack of skilled workers.

Acron is located at 41 degrees, 4 minutes, 23 seconds north latitude and 81 degrees, 31 minutes, 4 seconds west longitude. The city is about 63km south from the northeastern part of Ohio, the Great Lakes region, and about 55km south from the central city of the northeastern part of the state, Cleveland.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Achron City has a total area of 161.54km² (62.37^mi2). Of them, 160.66km² (62.03^mi2) is land and 0.88km² (0.34mi2) is the water area. A water area accounts for 0.55% of the total area. The city is located on the west edge of the Argay Plateau, and its topography is undulating and undulating, so the elevation of the downtown area varies from region to region, but the altitude is 306m.

climate

The climate of the acron is a continental climate characterized by severe cold and snow in winter, with the four seasons clear. The hottest July temperature is about 22°C, the highest average is about 28°C, and the average temperatures over 32°C during the day are about 1-2 days a month. The coldest January is 3°C below freezing and the average minimum temperature is 7°C below freezing, with temperatures falling below freezing on most days of the month. The amount of rainfall is approximately average throughout the year, which is about 70-110mm per month, but in January and February of winter, it is slightly less than 55-65mm per month. Annual rainfall is about 1,000mm. The amount of snow in the month from December to March in winter reaches 20-27cm and the amount of snow in the year reaches 120cm. In the Keppen climate division, the acron belongs to the subtropical wet climate (Dfa) distributed to most parts of the Midwest.

City Overview and Architecture

First Merit Tower

The downtown area of Acron is surrounded by National Route 59 in the west, National Route 8 in the east, the Little Kayahoga River in the north, and I-76/77 in the south. Because of the undulating landscape, the streets of Akron are intricate in downtown areas. The downtown street running east-west is divided into the west (W) and east (E), and the north-south street is divided into the north (N) and the south (S), bordering Market Street. On the east side of the downtown area is the campus of Acron University.

The tallest building in Acron is the 100.6m-27-story First Merit Tower, at the southeast corner of downtown Mill Street and Main Street. The Art Deco style skyscraper was completed in 1931. The First Merit Tower was registered as a National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

a joint office with government offices in Ohio, Summit and Acron

Acron is a mayor. The mayor is the official mayor of the city and the chief executive officer of the administration, and has the right and duty to participate in the discussions and discussions of the City Council: (1) the implementation of the laws and regulations adopted by the City Council, (2) the preparation and submission of the budget, (3) the reporting of the City's financial situation and requests to the City Council, (4) the appointment and dismissal of the City Officials, (5) the management and supervision of the City Bureaus, (6) the inspection of the conditions of the matters involved or contracted by the City Government, and (7) the introduction of the Ordinance and the discussions. The mayor is elected from all the cities, and his term of office is four years. There are no restrictions on the selection of candidates, for example, Donald PLASKERICK, who assumed the post of mayor in 1987, won seven elections and served as mayor for 28 years until he resigned on May 31, 2015.

The city assembly, the city's legislative body, consists of 13 members. 10 of them will be selected from 10 single-seat districts, and the other three will be selected from all the cities. The mayor of the city's assembly is elected from among the members. The secretary is appointed by the city council apart from the city council. Whether it is a single-seat constituency or a whole city election, the term of the municipal assembly is four years.

Achron police patrol car

The security of Acron is better than that of Cleveland and Young's Town in the northeastern part of the same province, and even in the ranking of "Dangerous Cities in the United States" by CQ Press, Morgan Quitnot, it has never been in the Worst 25 category, but it is not very good in the United States. The company's 2015 report (using FBI data from 2013) showed that Achron was the 54th most dangerous city in the 441 cities. Compared to other cities in the state, the security of Acron is much better than Cleveland, much better than Cincinnati and Dayton, a little better than Toledo and a little worse than Columbus.

Summit County, centered on Acron, has been frequently abused as the "City of Methane Feminine in Ohio". According to the United States Drug Control Agency's National Secret Drug Manufacturers Registration Information, there are 102 locations in Summit County that are registered for methane-phentimine use, the largest number in any county in Ohio and the third largest in any county in the United States. Between January 2004 and August 2009, Summit County was the county with the highest number of places in the state registered as the place for methane-phenamine, most of which were located in Achron City. The authorities attributed the increased crackdown on drugs coming from Mexico to the practice of refining illegal drugs locally. In response, then Mayor of Acron, Donald Plaskerick, issued a statement in 2008 that he will build a further cooperative relationship with the Acron Municipal Police in an effort to eradicate methane fatherminh.

Goodyear Head Office, Shinyaya under construction (2012)

Two companies in Fortune 500, Goodyear and First Energy are headquartered in Acron. Goodyear is one of the three largest tire manufacturers in the world, representing not only Acron but also the United States of America, along with Bridgestone and Michelin, and it was one of the 30 most common constituent brands of Dow Jones Industrial Co., Ltd. until October 1999. The company remained the only company in Acron until the mid-20th century, as other tire manufacturers, who had supported the local economy of Acron and called it the "Rubber City of the World", had left Acron one after another in the process of acquisition and relocation. In 2013, the company built a new shrine building on the south side of the old old old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building of the old building, and moved to the new building.

First Energy Company was established in 1997 by Ohio Edison as a result of the merger of Senteria, and later merged GPUs with Algainey Energy to become the largest power company in the United States. The company is also one of the 15 Dow components. The company has 10 power companies, with more than six million customers in over 170,000km^{2 areas across Ohio and seven states: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland}, New Jersey and New York.

Other companies have their headquarters in Acron, including the hand disinfectant maker GOJO Industries, thermoplastic elastomer Advanced Elastomer Systems, First Merit Bank, Mayers Industries, plastic and tire repair goods maker Akme Fresh Market, a local grocery store chain Akme Fresh Market, and jewelry retailer Stirling Juellers. In 2012, Bridgestone built a technology center with research and development facilities in Achron City and moved the company's product development department to the technology center. The Cleveland-based local bank Key Bank has its Acron regional head office in downtown Cleveland, with five branches in the city.

polymer valley

polymer valley location

In the late 20th century and after the 1970s, tire manufacturers, which had supported the local economy of Acron, left Acron one after another, but the existence of the remaining research infrastructure transformed Acron into a city in the polymer industry that applies to the high-tech industry. In the 1980s and 1990s, polymer-related companies started to flow into the six counties of Mahoning, Stark, Portage, Tumble and Colombia, mainly in Summit County, across the six counties in the northeastern part of the state of Colombia, and the whole area was called "Polymer Valley." The Acron University and the Case Western Reserve University have world-class polymer researchers and have produced polymer engineers here. In addition, it became possible to learn about the manufacture of polymer products at local high schools. In addition to the rich research and educational environment in which Ohio was originally rich in natural resources and transportation, 45% of the Ohio polymer industry is concentrated in Polymer Valley, increasing recognition not only within the state but also across the United States as the hub of the polymer industry. There are 400 polymer companies in Polymer Valley, of which 94 are concentrated in Achron.

a typical hospital in Achron
Top left: Acron General Medical Center	Upper right: Akron Children's Hospital
Lower left: St. Thomas Hospital	Bottom right: Akron City Hospital

Acron is also a regional medical center. The line connecting the Achron Children's Hospital, located on the west side of Akron University's campus, located on the west side of National Route 8, the Achron Children's Hospital located just west of the campus, and the Acron General Medical Center located on National Route 59, located on the west side of the campus, has been designated by the city authorities in 2010 as the Biological Corridor (Biological Medical Corridor), which encourages the use of the area's land, buildings and facilities for medical and related research and development and training.

The Acron General Medical Center, which opened in 1914, was originally ranked 10th in the state. In 2015, the Acron General Health System, a hospital-based medical corporation, came under the umbrella of the Cleveland Clinic, a hospital with five highly rated hospitals across the country.

Akron Children's Hospital started as a nursery in 1890, but later developed into the largest pediatric hospital in the northeastern part of the state. In 1974, Dr. Howard Eugel and Aaron Freeman of the Institute succeeded in cultivating human skin in a laboratory for the world's first use in treating burns. The hospital is ranked among the top 50 medical treatment areas in the U.S. News & World Report.

The Acron City Hospital was opened in 1892 and is now designated as a Level I trauma center to provide 24-hour emergency medical care to seriously injured patients. St. Thomas's Hospital, on the other hand, was established in 1922 by Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, a women's assembly in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. It is the first hospital in the United States to recognize alcoholism as a disease and to start treating it, and is the birthplace of Arkoholics Anonymous. The two houses merged in 1989 to form the Sanma Health System. The system then added Burberton Hospital in Burberton, a suburb of the southwest, opened Rehabilitation Hospital to the east of Achron City Hospital in a joint with Vibra Healthcare, and Western Reserve Hospital to Kayahoga Falls in a joint with Western Reserve Hospital Partners.

Acron Canton Regional Airport

The nearest commercial airport to Acron is 18km southeast from downtown and Acron Canton Airport between Acron and Canton (IATA: CAK). Delta Air and United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, US Airways and Aleyant Airlines, as well as Delta Air and United Airlines, have their direct flights to 16 and 17 international airports. This airport is not only an airport in the Acron-Canton metropolitan area, but also the second airport in the Cleveland urban area. The largest of these airports is the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (IATA:), the hub airport of former Continental Airlines, which is located at 17km southwest of Cleveland's downtown and 60km northwest of Acron's downtown. CLE). IATA: AKC) has a facility of the Immigration and Customs Administration (ICE), so it meets the requirements as an "international airport" and the airport name is also labeled "international airport," but it is actually General Aviation Airport.

On Acron, two interstate highways, I-76 and I-77, meet. I-76 connects to I-71 in the south of Medina in the west and serves as a short circuit leading from Acron to Columbus Cincinnati without going through Cleveland. On the other hand, it goes east through Young's Town to Pennsylvania and to Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia. I-77, a highway running north-south through eastern Ohio, connects I-90 in downtown Cleveland to the north, and goes south to Charleston, the capital of West Virginia, and to Charlotte, across the Appalachian Mountains. These two interstate expressways run east-west through the south of the downtown area, and the downtown area doesn't have an interstate expressway, but on the I-77 extension line, Route 8 passing east of the downtown and Route 59 passing west of the downtown area are both expressway standards. Route 8 is also a highway standard from downtown to the north, and it also serves as a bridge between the north and downtown, such as the Kayahoga Falls.

The Kayahoga Valley Scenic Railway's Akron North Side station is located north of the downtown. This railroad was originally a volleyball railroad which was built to carry coal from Tuscany Valley to Acron and Cleveland in the south of Canton in 1880, and also carried passengers along the line. However, in the latter half of the 20th century, both passenger and freight cars played the leading role, and the transportation using this railroad became a fire. Later, in 1972, the railway track was used to run the sightseeing train in Kayahoga Valley National Park, which has continued to the present day.

Acron Intermodal Transit Center

The main public transportation system in Acron is the route bus network operated by the Acron Metropolitan Area Transportation Bureau (METRO). This bus network has Route 35 and covers not only Achron City but also Summit County. Central to the bus network is the Acron Intermodal Transit Center located in downtown Niigata. The Transit Center was established in 2009 and is designed to be environmentally friendly, with 1/3 of the power used by solar panels and geothermal heat used for air conditioning. The Stark Regional Transportation Bureau (SATTA), which covers the Stark County around Canton, operates a bus per hour that connects downtown Achron and Canton via I-76. The Portage Regional Transportation Bureau (PARTA), which operates the route bus network of Kent, also operates a bus that connects Achron and Kent. Buses of SARTA and PARTA also arrive at and depart from the Acron Intermodal Transit Center. The Acron Intermodal Transit Center also serves as the bus terminal for Greyhound, Barron's Bus, and Gobas, and buses for Greyhound connecting the direction of Washington D.C. and the direction of Cleveland Detroit Chicago and Gobus connecting Cleveland and Parkersburg, Athens West Virginia stop at this station.

Akron University

Acron University has a 218-acre campus (882,000m2) in the northeastern part of downtown. The school was founded in 1870 as Buchtel College, a private university affiliated with the Universal Christian Church, but was transferred to the city in 1913 and transferred to the state in 1967. In 1988, the school established the world's first Faculty of Polymer Science and Engineering by separating and integrating the Faculty of Polymer Science and the Faculty of Engineering, which had been the Faculty of Liberal Arts. The university also serves as a general university and community college, and has 31 associate colleges, 96 bachelor degree, 80 master degree, 20 doctor degree, and two degree programs, as well as 81 certficate programs, and has about 21,000 faculty members, about 3,600 graduate schools, and about 400 professional schools. Zip, a sports team from the same school, belongs to the Mid-American Conference of NCAA's division I (football is FBS/former I-A), and is competing in seven boys' and ten girls' events.

Akron Summit County Public Library Main Hall

The K-12 program in Acron is supported mainly by public schools under the jurisdiction of the Acron Public School District. The school district has 30 elementary schools, nine middle schools and nine high schools, and has about 22,000 children and students. In 2013, Akron Preparatory School, a charter school for Ikkan KONAKA (kindergarten, first to eighth grade), opened using the old building of Goodyear. In addition, there are private schools in Acron, such as St. Vincent-St. Mary's High School of the Catholic Church, which is the mother school of Leblon James.

The Akron Summit County Public Library has the main building in downtown, 17 branch offices in the county, and a mobile library. The museum was established in 1874. The museum has 1.9 million books, including CD·DVD. In 2015, the Library was rated as a four-star library by the Library Journal.

Scenic, art and cultural facilities

Achron Museum

The Acron Museum is located in the southeast corner of downtown, High Street and Market Street. The museum was opened in 1922 under the grounds of the former Akron Summit County Public Library Museum as the Acron Art Institute, which also serves as a gallery and art class. After the 1960s, the school began to focus more on collecting works of art than art classes, and its name was changed to the Achron Museum in 1980, and was moved to the renovated former post office (built in 1899) in the following year, and increased its floor size by adding John S and James L. Night Building to the former post office in 2081. In 2015, a garden called Bud and Suzy Rogers Garden, an outdoor gallery, was opened in an open space on the south side of the building. The museum's collections range from 1850s to 2000s, from landscape paintings and portraits to abstract paintings and pop art in a genre, and from paintings, photographs, sculptures and block prints, and are exhibited and exhibited not only in the museum but also on line.

Stan High Wet Hall and Gardens

Stan High Wet Hall and Gardens are located about 5 km northwest of downtown. The Tudor Revival style house, built on 70 acres (283,000m²), was originally a mansion of Goodyear's founder Frank Saberling, built between 1912 and 15. The house is open to the public as a museum, as well as the garden and the greenhouse. The Basharako is a lecture hall and is used for corporate events and wedding ceremonies. The Stan High Wet Hall and Gardens were registered as the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and as the National Historic Buildings in 1981.

acting art

E. J. Thomas Acting Art Hall

E. J. Thomas Acting Art Hall is located on the campus of Akron University. The hall was built in 1973 by Acron University and local volunteers, and is used by students and faculty members of the school as well as the home of the Acron Symphony Orchestra of the local orchestra. The hall has 2,955 seats, which are divided into three levels, and has 400,000 annual visitors.

At the end of downtown Church Street and Main Street, Acron Civic Theater stands. The theater was built by Marcus Row in 1929 and was initially called the Rows Theater. From June 2001 to November 2002, the aging facilities were completely renovated. The Acron Civic Theater was registered as a National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

There is an open-air theater in Third Lock Park, located to the southwest of the Acron Civic Theater, and over 80 concerts and other events are held during the summer period from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Events

On the evening of New Year's Eve, each year, the main site is located on the east side of Third Lock Park, and the New Year's Passing event called First Night Achron is held, with the following locations as the main site: the Akron Museum, the Civic Theater, the main building of the public library, the John S. Night Center (Convention Center), the Summit Art Space, the Graystone Hall, and the Dione Lutheran Church. At the main hall and each sub-hall, concerts, movies, and other performances of acting art are held. At the end of the event, a fireworks display will be set off at midnight on January 1.

food culture

Ferdinand Schumacher

Some of the typical food cultures of the United States of America were born in Acron. Ferdinand Schumacher, who introduced to Achron from Germany in 1851, started a variety store there, but he could not increase sales of Oats, one of the products. for in this part of the world at that time oats were not cultivated as human food, but as feed for livestock. Then, Schumacher broke the oats into a square of one ounce (28g) in 1854. This was the birth of oatmeal, and eventually, cereal foods. Thus, the oats which were made easy to eat spread quickly, and in 1856, they acquired a factory and started mass production, and during the Civil War, they became food for the Northern Army, and the demand for oats increased. After the war, Schumacher's further research also led to the production of Oats' flakes, which became a hit product throughout the United States. Then, Schumacher became the first president of the American Serial Company, one of the predecessors of the Quaker Arts Company.

Although there are various theories, Akron is one of the places where hamburgers originated. In 1885, when Charles and Frank's Menchi Brothers were cooking and selling a sandwich with sausage patty in Erie County, Hamburg Village, Southern Buffalo, in the western part of New York State, the sausage patty ran out, but the local mincer could not supply pork ground meat, so they used the beef, which was considered to be low in the class at the time, and they used coffee powder and brown sugar to make the taste, which they baked the patty, which made the coffee powder and brown sugar, was popular, and then served. When Frank was asked by a customer for the name of the dish, he quickly answered "hamburger" from the name of the village of hamburger, which was mentioned in the banner looking up. The Achron theory says that this is the beginning of the hamburger. For this reason, the U.S. Hamburger Festival is held every year in the middle of August at Third Lock Park. At this event, where more than 20,000 people come every year, the hamburgers compete for their arms, a hamburger eating contest where people compete to eat hamburgers within the 10-minute time limit, a bobbing for burgers from a plastic pool filled with ketchup with only their mouths, a miss contest called hamburger Queen Pageant, and a concert are held.

sport

Canal Park

The Acron does not have a team for the four major North American professional sports leagues, but has a team at the bottom. The baseball team Acron Rubaddax is an AA-class minor league team under the Cleveland Indians and belongs to the Western Eastern League division. The Rubaddax is based in Canal Park located in downtown Tokyo.

At the Firestone Country Club located at the southern end of the city, the Bridgestone Invitation Championship of Professional Golf is held every year. Since 1999, the tournament has become one of the world golf championships.

Acron is also the host of the All American Soap Box Derby, a soap box competition. The tournament started in 1934 at Dayton, but in the following year, 1935, it moved to Acron for the reason of the undulating terrain that was suitable for the lace of soap boxes. The first tournament held in Acron was on the public road, but in the following year, 1936, a permanent venue called Derby Downs was built in the area adjacent to Acron Fulton International Airport, and the subsequent tournaments are held there.

NBA's MVP players Lebron James and Stephin Curry are born together at Achron's Akron General Medical Center.

Parks and recreation

Third Lock Park

The Third Lock Park, located in downtown Tokyo, is a park built around the Third Lock Gate of the Ohio and Erie Canal, as its name suggests. The park was built in 2001 by the then mayor Donald Plaskerick, who pulled down the devastated buildings that had been built along the main street, and was opened in 2003. The park is a venue for various events, including the aforementioned First Night Acron and the fireworks on Independence Day, as well as concerts at outdoor theaters. In the winter season, an outdoor skating rink is also provided in the park.

Along the Ohio and Erie Canal, there is a 163km-long walkway/bicycle lane that spans four counties from Cleveland to Kayahoga Valley National Park, Acron, and Masylon to New Philadelphia, and Kayahoga Summit Stark Tuscarawas.

On the west side of National Route 59 from downtown, Akron Zoo is located. The park started in 1900 when it raised two donated brown bears on a 79-acre (320,000m²) land donated by George Perkins and Ann Perkins, descendants of Simon Perkins, one of the city's founders. As time went by, the park expanded its premises and expanded its premises to include more species of animals raised such as monkey, jaguar, eagle, red panda, sumatra, lion, humboldt penguin, snow leopard, Japanese giant tortoise, Galapagos tortoise, and gray bear, as well as themes such as 'Valley of tiger,' 'Legend of wild,' and 'Kingdom of Commodore.' The park also houses an aquarium named "The Journey to the Reef," in which jellyfish and octopus are raised, and a garden with flowers and trees in the local Ohio state.

To the west of Sand Run Metro Park in the northwestern part of the city, there is the 104 acres (420,000m²) of the F.A. Saberling Natural Kingdom. In this natural park, named after Goodyear's founder and a land donor, Saberling, there is a visitor center that exhibits things related to local animals and plants, and there are gardens and three walkways.

urban population

The population of each county that forms the urban area of Acron is as follows (National Census 2010). For the population of the entire Cleveland-Acron-Canton metropolitan area, please refer to Cleveland(Ohio)#Urban Population.

Acron metropolitan area

urban population transition

The population changes from 1840 to 2010 in Acron City are shown below in a chart and a graph.

a signpost on which the sister city Kemnitz is written

Acron has a sister-city relationship with the following two cities.

• Kemnitz, Germany
• Kiriyat Ekron (Israel)

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• City of Akron - Official City Site
• History of Akron and Summit County
• Akron/Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Akron-Summit County Public Library
• Akron Beacon Journal
• Akron, Ohio - City-Data.com

Coordinates: 41 degrees 04 minutes 23 seconds north latitude 81 degrees 31 minutes 04 seconds west longitude / 41.073155 degrees north latitude 81.517900 degrees west longitude / 41.073155 degrees west longitude; -81.517900