Interesting Facts

In 1825, Akron was founded by Simon Perkins and was established as a Canal Town along the Ohio-Erie Canal. Today, almost a quarter-million people call Akron home.
Practice your fakies, 180s, and � if you're good enough � even your 720s at Akron's Skate Park, installed in September 2001. Featuring areas tailored to beginner, intermediate and advanced skaters, you'll find a 4-sided pyramid for stunts in the middle, a 65-foot snake roll leading into a bowl with a 7-foot drop, a spine, stairs, ledges, rails and quarter pipes. Best of all, it is free.
The headquarters for the Quaker Oats Company were once located in Akron. Today, this former factory houses a hotel and a variety of shops widely known as Quaker Square. A unique draw for the hotel is that all of the guest rooms are round, located as they are in a cluster of renovated grain silos.
As difficult to imagine as it may be, within a 500-mile radius of Akron, you can find 50 percent of the US population. Nearly 10 million people reside within a 150-mile radius of this area.
The Akron Children's Hospital was one of the very first medical establishments to grow skin for burn patients.
If it wasn't for the ingenius ideas of Akron's Menches brothers, American favorites such as the hamburger, the waffle cone and Cracker Jacks may never have been invented.
Roof Cloud, Crystal, Gallery Box. Believe it or not, these are all components of the new state-of-the-art (and architecture) Akron Art Museum. The complex design reveals as much about transparency, solidity and negative and postive space as do the works of art displayed within.
Thousands of Americans have benefited from the guidance of "Dr. Bob" Smith and Bill W. Wilson who developed the program for the treatment of alcoholism known today as Alcoholics Anonymous. The home in which this support system began (known as Dr. Bob's Home) is one of Akron's most popular attractions today.
Akron is located in the Cuyahoga River Valley. This biologically unique, "botanical crossroads" is a natural dividing line between the eastern mountains of the Appalachians and central lowlands that give way to the western prairie.
Frank A. Seiberling, founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. built the home known as the Stan Hywet Hall and Garden. Today, this popular attraction is regarded as the premium example of Tudor Revival Architecture in the nation.