Akron, Ohio, is a small town with a great story. It 'was founded in 1825 near the Erie Canal and its "twin city" of Canton, was next to a large U.S. Midwest manufacturing center to flourish to this day. In fact, Akron, Ohio as the "Rubber Capital of the World" is known. Long before the invention of the automobile, BF Goodrich began the first rubber company there in 1869. General Tire was founded later in 1915 with the rise of the automotive industry has been, and then theGoodyear Tire and Rubber Company has become the top American tire manufacturers, which the city a very important place in the national map. After the boom of heavy industry has declined in the 1970's and 80's, new to the city defines as a center for finance, high technology and research.
But it is also a city of many firsts, is certainly respectable, some infamous. Sojourner Truth delivered her famous "I'm not a woman?" Convention speech in 1851 in Akron Ohio woman. In 1885 twoCity of brothers Frank and Charles Menches invented the hamburger in New York State Fair and would then go to create the ice cream cone. In 1920 the first meeting was held there for American Pro Football League form. One was the first organized crime operations based in the Midwest, as Borgio Rosario, was an Italian-American gangsters in there early 20 Century. Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron in 1935, where the first meetings werePlace.
Akron is also known as City of the invention. Other "first" Trivia: The first passenger car tires made in USA, the air balloon, the first synthetic rubber tires and rubber wound golf ball first all came from Akron, Ohio. The first airship was built in the U.S., because this is also the first U.S. manufacturer of toys, the first car of the police patrol car, the first U.S. space suits and the first trans-active science museum, the National Inventors Hall of Fame. This city was the firstLong distance electric railway in the world, the first National Football League Champions (Akron Professionals Powerful 1920). The first high-volume boxes of breakfast cereal (Quaker Oats) were present when the call first artificial.
Considering the first place prize in the livable city by the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 1999, is also three-time All-America City winner and a famous center of research and development of polymers. And 'whenThe Soap Box Derby World Championships, NEC Invitational golf tournament and Stan Hywet Hall, one of the best examples of Tudor Revival architecture in America. World's largest model train display is located at the warehouse, in Akron Quaker Square (the site of the former Quaker Oats Co.)
