Mogadore, Ohio

Summit County Portage County

39-51058

Mogadore is a municipality in the U.S. state of Ohio. Mogadore is in the southeast of Summit County, but exceeds a smaller part of the municipal district of the Countygrenzen Portage counties. It is a suburb of Akron and statistically part of the Akron metropolitan area. According to the 2000 census the population was 3,893.

History

The first settlers on the territory of today Mogadore was Ariel Bradley. He came from Salisbury in Connecticut and had been at the age of nine years in the Revolutionary war working as a spy for the forces under George Washington. Bradley came into the Connecticut Western Reserve in order to look for suitable land. He found it in a small valley with a large abundance of wood and a variety of sources. Here he built a log house in 1807 on a 59 acre plot of land that had cost him $ 335. The resulting settlement in this area was first named Bradleyville, but since the year 1825, the name changed in Mogadore.

In Mogadore was a railway station of Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad, which in 1964 merged with the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Many goods were shipped here in World War II took the tires from General Tire, now owned by Continental AG, this station for the transport of manufactured tires for military vehicles. The railroad depot from 1900, was bought by the Mogadore Historical Society and re-erected on a private property. Today is the nearest railway station in Akron.