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Akron, Summit County, Ohio

a town of 10,000 pop., on the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, at the intersection of the Cleveland & Zanesville Railroad, 36 miles from Cleveland. The Ohio & Erie Canal here forms a junction with the Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal. Large quantities of wheat are shipped from this point.

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