Boston Mills Historic District - Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

Boston, the oldest village in Summit County, was first settled by surveyor James Stanford in 1806. The village’s first mill was built in 1821. The Ohio & Erie Canal’s arrival in 1827 expanded opportunities for commerce and industry. Many boat builders and canal boatmen lived in Boston. By 1850 Boston grew into a town with a broom factory, brewery, brickyard, gristmill, sawmill, numerous stores and several boat-building yards. With the decline of the canal traffic in the 1860s, Boston slumbered until the arrival of the Valley Railway in 1880. The town boomed in 1900 when the Akron Bag Company started operations here on the Cuyahoga River, hired many Polish immigrants and built company houses along Main Street. Since the early 1900s, Boston’s size and street pattern have changed very little, allowing it to retain the feeling of a small canal and mill town.

Street address: Riverview, Boston Mills and Stanford Rds and Main St Peninsula, Ohio USA 44264 County / Borough / Parish: Summit County Year listed: 1992 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1825-1849, 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924, 1925-1949 Historic function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic Current function: Domestic, park use Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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