Historical Reminiscences of Summit County

Download or read book Historical Reminiscences of Summit County written by Lucius Verus Bierce and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CUYAHOGA FALLS This township is an exception to all others on the KSscrve, in having neither Range, nor Number, and contains but four and one-eighth square miles. Instead of being five miles square, as are all the other Townships, this is only one and a fourth miles square, being the whole of Tract one, and forty rods wide on the North side of Tract five, originally in Tallmadge, and one eighth of a mile square from lots one, two, eleven, and twelve, in Stow; half a mile east and west, and one mile north and south, from lots eight and nine in Northampton, and one and a half miles east and west from the west part of Tract two in Portage. The Township is composed of the corners of four Townships, and was organized into a Township in April, 1851, for the purpose of accommodating the large and increasing business of the village of Cuyahoga Falls. Being thus taken from the corners of four Townships, it possesses no distinct range, nor number of its own, but lies in ranges ten and eleven, and townships two and three. As its name imports, it is on the falls of the Cuyahoga river, which here commence and continue for over two miles.--In this distance are three perpendicular falls--the upper one, near the village, is about twelve feet; the second, sixteen feet; the lower, or "Big Falls," twenty-two feet. Besides these there are continuous rapids the whole distance, forming some of the best water-power in the world. The river has cut a channel through the rocks from eighty to one hundred feet in depth, through which it rushes, among the fragments of rocks that have fallen from above, forming the most sublime scenery in Northern Ohio. The railroad runs on the very verge of this precipice, offering to a traveler a view of the wilderness of Nature in...