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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWY0_creating-crossroads-of-commerce_Akron-OH.html
You are near "Hall's Corners," the center of Akron's first business district, named after the general store that once stood at the corner of Market and Howard streets. Across Market Street from where you are standing, was the Empire House, the mos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWXZ_dr-bobs-home_Akron-OH.html
The home ofDr. Bob & Anne Smithfrom 1916 to 1950Co-founder ofAlcoholics Anonymous
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The birthplace ofAlcoholics AnonymousJune 10, 1935 Akron, Ohio
This property is listed in theNational Registerof Histori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWXY_portage-path-north-terminus_Akron-OH.html
The North Terminus canoe landing of the Portage Path was located here along the Cuyahoga River. The 1797 survey of the trail began at a black cherry tree on the south bank of the river. If standing today, that tree would be in the middle of the st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWXX_the-old-portage-path_Akron-OH.html
The Old Portage, an eight-mile overland connection between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas Rivers, was the longer of two portages used by prehistoric peoples and early settlers. This was just one link in the water route between Lake Erie and the Ohio …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWVL_the-portage-path-connected-lake-erie-with-the-ohio-river_Akron-OH.html
The First AmericansYou are standing at the North Terminus of the renewed Portage Path, which formed the vital link in the shortest and best water route between the great lake to the north and the rivers flowing south. The trail was created and rev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWVK_1797-portage-path-survey_Akron-OH.html
This series of flat stones has been laid on the ground to mark the actual trail of the Portage Path as it was surveyed by Moses Warren in 1797. From here, the trail winds southwest and then southerly and up the hill through the park. Then North Po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWVH_yeck-family-portage-path-north-terminus-memorial_Akron-OH.html
The Portage Path is now marked for all time in bronze to honor and memorialize the American Indian who for untold centuries preserved and cared for this land and its waterways.
During the 1990's, the Yeck Family initiated a program to research,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWUG_alaskan-totem-pole_Akron-OH.html
Presented to theAll-American Soap Box Derbyby the Juneau, Alaska,Rotary Club
Original of this pole stands at Wrangell, Alaska, where since 1890 it has served as a memorial to the Kiksadi chief, Kolteen...the monument consists of four memory dev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWUF_motorless-flight_Akron-OH.html
To honor the pioneering spiritand enthusiam of the Citizensof Akron who supported thesignificant advances tomotorless flight from1929 to 1936a commemorative flighttoday re-enacts thefirst towed gliderflight 50 years agofrom Akron to Columbuscarryi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU24_united-states-synthetic-rubber-program-1939-1945_Akron-OH.html
Top plaque:
When the natural rubber supply from Southeast Asia was cut off at the beginning of World War II, the United States and its allies faced the loss of a strategic material. With U.S. government sponsorship, a consortium of companies in…