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. ... 71, an Ohio native, said the photographs belonged to his grandmother Eloyda Corser Yates (1895-1987), ...

This week in Akron history, Gen. Simon Perkins bought 160 acres southwest of present-day intersection of Main and Exchange streets.