Stow (Ohio)

Summit County

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Stow is a city in Summit County, Ohio. She was in the census in 2000 and has grown 32 139 inhabitants in 2007 to some 34,000 inhabitants. The city is named after Joshua Stow ( 1762-1842 ).

Stow is adjacent to several other urban communities such as Tallmadge and Munroe Falls and the village of Silver Lake in the south. In the east it borders the city of Kent and Franklin Township, on the north by the city of Hudson, and on the west by the city of Cuyahoga Falls.

History

The Treaty of Greenville had on August 3, 1795 in Fort Greenville the Native Americans a large portion of their land in Ohio to cede to the United States. The partition boundary ran from the mouth of the Cuyahoga River into Lake Erie along the river south to the Portage Portage County in present-day and then the Tuscarawas River down to Fort Laurens near present-day Bolivar.

Joshua Stow, who as a companion of Moses Cleaveland in the years 1796 to 1797 the land around Lake Erie, called the Connecticut Western Reserve, had measured, took a liking to this country at the border Cuyahoga River. He bought here almost a square kilometer of land, and sent a relative, William Wetmore, from Connecticut to develop in the area there. 1804 Wetmore came on in the area. On Stows country towns Stow and Cuyahoga Falls emerged.

In 1812, the Indians withdrew from the territory of the Cuyahoga River, to ally with the British. After the defeat of the British in the British -American War of 1812, however, she never returned to the area.

Famous people

  • Treniere Clement - U.S. track and field athlete ( Mittelstreccke, U.S. champion )
  • Larry Csonka - Pro Football Hall of Famer
  • Ben Curtis - Professional Golf Association ( PGA) Tour players. Winner of the 2003 Open Championship (British Open).
  • Neel Kashkari - U.S. State Secretary of Finance and interim administrator of the 700 - billion-dollar bailout fund
  • Mark Gangloff - swimmer (Olympic Games 2004, 2008 )
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