AKRON, Ohio – The Akron History Center, which celebrates the city’s 200-year history, opens Saturday, April 5. The $2.2-million history center spans three floors and includes more than 60 ...

This week in Akron history, New York governor stayed overnight, Tadmor Shrine got a charter, Jesse Owens had surgery and ...

Local history: Akron photo found among Rudgers family reunion pictures from early 1900s. Gannett. ... an Ohio native, said the photographs belonged to his grandmother Eloyda Corser Yates (1895 ...

AKRON, Ohio — One dozen couples took advantage of the joint effort by the Akron Municipal Court and Akron Civic Theatre to hold their wedding inside the historic theater on Thursday.

Akron celebrates its bicentennial with the historical anthology "Akron at 200," edited by Dave Lieberth and Dr. Jon Miller.

Two Akron landmarks — the former Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. factory and an old schoolhouse in Kenmore — have landed on Preservation Ohio’s list of Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites ...