Population 29,195. Founded in 1812, the population is now about 38,000. It gets its name from an Indian word "Coppacaw," meaning "shedding tears." This was probably derived from the fact that the river runs through a rocky gorge, dropping 200 feet in two and one half miles, near here. Mainly a residential town, this is an important and growing suburb of Akron.

However, it does have a number of industries and is the home of the Lawson Milk Company, the first company in the United States to introduce and market cash-and-carry sale of milk in gallon jugs.

AKRON, Ohio

County seat of Summit County located 35 miles south of Cleveland. With a 1950 census population of 274,605 (now estimated to be 304,000), it is the state's fifth largest city and is rapidly overtaking Toledo which ranks fourth. Its name is derived from the Greek "akros," meaning "high." laid out as a canal town in 1825, it was the highest point on the old Ohio & Erie Canal. It now spreads saddlewise over the watershed dividing the drainage of northern Ohio into the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi River systems. The canal, following its opening in 1827, was responsible for the city's early growth-for by its commerce factories, pottery plants, and cereal mills were established followed by blast furnaces and lumber mills, and their products transported to Cleveland and nearby inland points. In 1836 exports had reached a record high of $400,000 giving impetus to the extension of the canal to Pittsburgh and Beaver, Pa. -the first boat arriving from the latter place in April, 1840.

The railroad entered the city in 1852 and the picturesque and leisurely trading life on the canal gradually gave way to the more modern and faster tempo of commerce and industry. The Civil War brought new demands, new industries and greater expansion: In 1863 the Empire Barley Mill, first of Akron's great cereal mills (now Quaker Oats) was started. Few people foresaw the future importance of rubber when Dr. Beniamin F. Goodrich opened a plant for the manufacture of fire hose and similar articles in 1870.

Names that were to become household words in rubber: Goodrich, Miller, Seiberling, Firestone, Goodyear, Diamond, Swinehart, Star, were being heard with increasing frequency. The rubber industry grew steadily in the early 1900's and by 1915 the certainty of its expansion and prosperity lead to a "Rubber Rush" which brought thousands of workers and their families to Akron. Today the city is known as the "Rubber Capital" of the world, with the home offices of such globe circling rubber firms as Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., B. F. Goodrich Co., General Tire & Rubber Co., Mohawk Rubber Co., Seiberling Rubber Co., located here-maior contributors to the more than four billion dollars of annual production by the rubber industry. In addition to tires and tubes, their products range from the smallest of washers to lighter-than-air craft.