Richfield (Ohio)

Summit County

39-66530

Richfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. Today, it is statistically part of the Akron metropolitan area (Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area ).

Population

In the 2000 census, Richfield had 3,286 inhabitants.

Geography and Transport

Richfield is located in a largely wooded area in which the fields are surrounded by vast forests. About three miles to the east of Richfield is the valley of the running in a north-south direction river Stanford Run. The municipal area of Richfield is 22.0 km ².

The village of Richfield as well as the settlements of the surrounding Richfield Township - particularly the approximately four kilometers south of Richfield Village lying Broadview - are growing rapidly, originally farming communities, some of which now have a suburban character because they about the same distance from the near downtown areas of Akron and Cleveland are.

The Village is located on Ohio State Route 303 West Streetsboro Road. From Broadview from Interstate 271 via the Interchange 9 is reached, and the I -271 to change to the running in the north -south I -77.

In Richfield Township is a main branch of Cisco Systems, as well as the FedEx distribution warehouse for the entire northeastern Ohio.

History

Prior to the acquisition of land by white settlers, the area was inhabited by the people of Wyandotte and Ottawa. Like the other townships in northeastern Ohio was also the Richfield formerly one of the original Western Reserve was founded on the territory of the State of Connecticut end of the 18th century claimed Connecticut townships. 1795 the entire country of the reserve of the Connecticut Land Company was bought for a million dollars, divided into small units and resold, although official treaties with the Indians were not completed until the early 19th century.

The territory of the later Richfield Township was sold to a group of six investors. The place Richfield itself was founded in 1809 by Lancelot Mayes, who was the first settlers settled here. The original Indian settlers left the area around 1815.

First, the area belonged to Trumbull County, later to Portage County and finally to Medina County, to today's Summit County was founded in 1840, are still in the Richfield and his Township. Several of John Brown's children were buried here. They died because of a smallpox epidemic, when he lived in this area.