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Barberton, Ohio. Location in Summit County and the state of Ohio. / 41.00556°N 81.61944°W / 41.00556; -81.61944. Barberton is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 25,191 at the 2020 census. Located directly southwest of Akron, it is a suburb of the Akron metropolitan area .
Lake Anna Park. An aerial photo of the Barberton Veteran's Memorial at Lake Anna Park in Barberton, Ohio. Lake Anna Park is a 21-acre (85,000 m 2) park around a spring-fed, 10-acre (40,000 m 2) lake, and is located in the center of downtown Barberton, Ohio. [1] Lake Anna was formed by natural geology, left after the last ice age.
Built. 1942. In use. 1942–present. James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center is an Ohio Army National Guard military base in the U.S. state of Ohio located between Ravenna and Newton Falls and adjacent to the village of Windham. It was previously known as Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center, the Ravenna Training and Logistics ...
Arthur Oswin Austin (December 28, 1879 – June 7, 1964) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. A native of California, Austin graduated from Leland Stanford University with a degree in electrical engineering. He lived for a few years in New York where he worked for General Electric and the Lima Insulator Company, but spent most of ...
O. C. Barber. Ohio Columbus Barber (April 20, 1841 – February 4, 1920) was an American businessman, industrialist and philanthropist. He was called "America's Match King" because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company, which had 85 percent of the market in 1881. He founded the city of Barberton, Ohio in 1891 and moved his ...
Barberton was a train station along the Erie Railroad main line in the city of Barberton, Summit County, Ohio, United States.Located 612.8 miles (986.2 km) from Hoboken Terminal on the Kent Division of the main line, the station first saw service in 1890 while under the ownership of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad, to help bring people to the new ...
The Anna–Dean farm was a concept of American industrialist O.C. Barber who envisioned a superfarm on the outskirts of Barberton, and to that end he began purchasing land for the eventual 3,500-acre (14 km 2) farm as early as 1900. Construction of the farm facilities began in 1907 with a concrete poultry building but would not truly begin in ...
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Akron and Barberton Belt Railroad ( reporting mark ABB) was a switching railroad that was built to serve various industries around the cities of Barberton and Akron in Ohio. [1] It was formed through the consolidation of several formerly independent lines that totaled ...