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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 .
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 ...
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.
The Diamond Match Company was the largest manufacturer of matches in the United States in the late nineteenth century. [6] The Diamond Match Company operated plants at Barberton, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware (now located in the East Brandywine Historic District ); [7] Barber, California [8] [9] [10] (now a neighborhood in south Chico, California ...
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 ...
O. C. Barber Barn No. 1. / 41.00722°N 81.59361°W / 41.00722; -81.59361. The O. C. Barber Barn No. 1, built in 1909, is an historic farm building located on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a ...
1086993 [2] Website. www .akronohio .gov. Akron ( / ˈækrən /) is a city in and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States. At the 2020 census, the city proper had a total population of 190,469, making it the fifth-most populous city in Ohio and 136th-most populous city in the United States. The Akron metropolitan area, covering ...
Barberton - west; Several populated places are located in the original bounds of Coventry Township: Part of the city of Akron, the county seat of Summit County, in the north; Part of the city of Barberton, in the west; The census-designated place of Portage Lakes, in the center; Name and history. It is the only Coventry Township statewide.