Everett is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Summit County, in the

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History

The

Hopewell Culture The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from ...

inhabited the area by ~200AD and constructed the Everett Mound. Early variant names for the area included Unionville and Johnnycake, on account of the

johnnycake Johnnycake, also known as journey cake, johnny bread, hoecake, shawnee cake or spider cornbread, is a cornmeal flatbread, a type of batter bread. An early American staple food, it is prepared on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Jamaic ...

canal passengers resorted to eating during a flood which stopped traffic. The present name Everett honors a railroad official Sylvester T. Everett. A post office called Everett was established in 1880, and remained in operation until 1953.

References

Unincorporated communities in Summit County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{SummitCountyOH-geo-stub