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Akron, Ohio is a small city with
a big history. It was founded in 1825 near the Erie Canal and, with
its "twin city" of Canton , became an important American
Midwest manufacturing center that continues to thrive to this day.
In fact, Akron is known as "The Rubber Capital of the World".
Long before the invention of the automobile, B.F. Goodrich started
the first rubber company in Akron in 1869. General Tire was later
founded in 1915 with the rise of the automobile industry, and then
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company became America 's top tire
manufacturer, giving Akron a very important place on the country's
map. Once the boom of heavy manufacturing declined in the 1970s
and '80s, the city redefined itself as a center for financial, high
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But Akron is also a city of many
firsts, some respectable, some notorious. Sojourner Truth delivered
her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in 1851 at Akron
's Ohio Women's Rights Convention. In 1885 two Akron brothers, Frank
and Charles Menches, invented the hamburger at the New York State
Fair and would also later go on to create the ice cream cone. In
1920, the first meeting was held in Akron , Ohio to form the American
Pro Football League. One of the first organized crime operations
was established in the Midwest when Rosario Borgio, an Italian-American
mobster came to Akron in the early 20th century. Bill Wilson founded
Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron in 1935, where the first meetings
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Akron is also known as the City
of Invention . Other "first" fun facts: the first automobile
tires made in the U.S. , the first balloon tire, first synthetic
rubber tire, and first rubber wound golf ball all came from Akron
, Ohio . The first zeppelin built in the U.S. was in Akron, which
also had the first U.S. toy company, the first automobile police
patrol wagon, first U.S. space suits and first trans-active science
museum, the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Akron had the first
long distance electric railway in the world; the first National
League Football champions (the mighty Akron Professionals of 1920).
The first high volume boxes of breakfast cereal (Quaker Oats) were
manufactured in Akron as was the first artificial fish bait. |
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Given first place in the City
Livability Award competition by the United States Conference of
Mayors in 1999, Akron is also a three-time All-America City winner
and a world-renowned center of polymer research and development.
It's the home of the Soap Box Derby World Championships, the NEC
Invitational golf tournament and Stan Hywet Hall, one of the finest
examples of Tudor Revival Architecture in America . The world's
largest model train display is at the Depot, at Akron 's Quaker
Square (former site of the Quaker Oats Co.)
For more information on Akron, Ohio visit http://www.akronblog.net
and http://www.ohiomicroblog.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=John_Parks |
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