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Akron, Ohio, is a small town with a great history. It was founded in 1825 near the Erie Canal and, with its "twin city" Guangzhou has become a major U.S. Midwest manufacturing center that continues to grow to this day. In fact, Akron is known as "the capital Rubber World. "Long before the invention of the automobile, BF Goodrich began the first rubber company in Akron in 1869. General Tire was later founded in 1915 with the rise of the automobile industry, and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company became America 's tire manufacturer Akron giving up a very important place on the map of the country. Once the boom of heavy industry has declined in the 1970s and '80s, the city redefined itself as a center of high tech financial and research sectors.
Akron, but also a city of many firsts, some respectable, some notorious. Sojourner Truth delivered her famous "Is not I a Woman?" Speech in 1851 in Akron, the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. In 1885, two Akron brothers, Frank and Charles Hermenches, invented the hamburger at the Fair of the State of New York and could go further to create the ice cream cone. In 1920 the first meeting was held in Akron, Ohio, to form American Pro Football League. One of the first Organized Crime was established in the Midwest where Borgio Rosario, a mafia godfather of Italian-American came to Akron in the early 20th century. Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron in 1935, when the first meetings were held.
Akron is also known as the City of the invention. Another "first" fun facts: the first automobile tires for the United States, the first balloon tire first rubber tire synthetic rubber first shot of golf ball are all from Akron, Ohio. The zeppelin first built in the United States, in Akron, which was also the first American toy company, the first automobile police patrol wagon, primarily the U.S. spacesuits and the first crossing of science museum active, the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Akron was the first long distance electric railway in the world, the First National Soccer League Champions (The Mighty Professionals Akron, 1920). The first high volume of boxes of breakfast cereal (Quaker Oats) have been made as Akron was the first artificial fish bait.
Since the first place in the City Award competition habitability by the American Conference Mayors in 1999, Akron was also three-time All-America City winner and an internationally renowned center of polymer research and development. It is headquarters of the World Championships Soap Box Derby, the NEC Tournament Golf Invitational and Stan Hywet Hall, one of the finest examples of Tudor Revival architecture in America. World's largest model train show will be at Depot in Akron 's Quaker Square (former site of the Quaker Oats Company)
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