Akron area - Summit County
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Akron, Barb, Barberton, Chatham, Copley, Cuyahoga Falls, East Akron, Ellet, Everett, Fairlawn, Firestone Park, Hinckley, Kenmore, Lake Slagle, Maple Valley, Medina, Mogadore, Montrose, North Hill, Norton, Peninsula, Richfield Heights, South Arlington, Streetsboro, Suffield, Tallmadge, Uniontown, Wadsworth, West Akron, West Richfield, in OH.
About Akron
Akron Ohio was founded in 1825; it is one of the top 100 most populous cities in the US. The rubber industry excelled its growth over 100 years ago. BF Goodrich and General Tire started the ball rolling and then Goodyear Tire continues to dominate the jobs sector. Goodyear Tire developed the Goodyear Heights area where the built housing for less than $4,000 for the employees. Firestone also built an employee area called Firestone park. Bridgestone puts on the Bridgestone Invitational which is on the PGA tour.
Other things to do and see in Akron are: Akron Zoological Park, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Derby Downs, Cuyahoga Riverboat Trips, Dover Lake Water Park, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Goodyear World of Rubber Museum, Lockheed Martin Airdock where they build airships (Zeppelins and blimps), All American Soap Box Derby.
Akron is a humid place to live because of Lake Erie; it is humid in every season.
The Community Development funds for the past 11 years helped revitalize more than 500 new homes throughout the city where older homes used to be.
The The University of Akron is known program is its College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering which makes sense since Akron is known as Rubber City. Type of housing at the University: coed dorms (82%), women's dorms (5%), men's dorms (5%), sorority housing, fraternity housing, apartment for single students (8%). A new $32 million residence hall with retail space on the ground floor is under construction (summer 2006). Most apartments in and around campus have high-speed internet connections. Akron is know for inventing the hambuger.