.< AKRON, .t
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never before
li.ul Ucni stirred by human
and removed, and the \o;i, ~ ol workmen and the i l.ii;- >t their tools rang out from day to day, as the Ohio canal was bein<» constructed, a town was being built upon its bank. The canal needed a town at the point at which this one was laid out. The canal made the town possible. The old waterway has passed the day ol its greatest usefulness, but .\kron, the town, has long since become a city, and each year is progressing and grow¬ ing in population, in wealth and industries, in advantages ' ^ ^ 111. . -. educational and refining, and
.ill that assists in making a prosperous and beautiful place ol residence and a coinmercuil and manufacturing center.
It was late in 1825 that the plat of the at that time prosjiective village of .\kron was placed upon the records of Portage Countv. Gen. Simon Perkins, Akron's founder, was a far-seeing man. but he builded better than he knew. Warren, even at that time a vil'i : ' • v-
