Boston Mills Historic District - Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
N 41° 15.805 W 081° 33.510
17T E 453216 N 4568149
Boston Mills Historic District roughly includes Riverview, Boston Mills and Stanford Rds and Main St in unincorporated Boston within Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Waymark Code: WM959W
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2010
Views: 4
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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