Summit County Jail Built in 1902 with capacity for 100 prisoners

Newspaper Articles

1837 American Balance: First known written description of Akron

1854 US Gazetteer: Akron

1854 US Gazetteer: Cuyahoga Falls

1854 Gazetteer: Summit County

1899 Skull & Bones

Records

1905 Physicians in Summit County

Summit County Cemeteries

Revolutionary War Soldiers (external link)

National Register of the Society of the American Revolution

Documents

Courthouse 1843-1905

Old Courthouse

The First Summit County Courthouse, seen here from South Broadway, was constructed in 1843 in the Greek Revival style by master builder Ithiel Mills, with the flanking wings added in 1868. It was torn down when the present courthouse was begun in 1905.

 

Civil war Reunion

Courtesy of Sharon Weaver.
Taken by George J. Snook who had a Gallery opposite the P. O. Akron, Ohio

City Building 1898 located on the southwest corner or Main and Bowery

Full Online Books

Historical Reminiscences of Summit County
By Lucius V. Bierce

History of the Town of Cuyahoga Falls By Rev. Fairchild

The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by  Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean By Walter Wellman

Official souvenir of the opening of the Mayflower Hotel, May 18, 1931
by Fore and aft of Mayflower Hotel, Akron, Ohio (large pdf)

Book Sections

 

• Ferdinand Schumacher
• The Oatmeal King
• Quaker Oats Company
• Two of Akron's Giants Topple
• Akron Industries Join Combines
•  Akron Children's Hospital
• James Garfield Boat Hand
• Dr. Crosby Promotes the Chuckery Race

50 Years & Over of Akron & Summit County By Samuel Lane Publisher: Beacon Job Department, 1892.

• Cereal Operations
• Children's Hospital
• John Brown
• Millerism
• P&O Canal
• Chuckery
• Eliakim Crosby