John Haymaker was an early settler of
Ohio
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and the founder of
Franklin Township and what would become the city of
Kent, Ohio
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. Haymaker and his family, who were of
German
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descent, moved west from
Pittsburgh
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to Franklin Township in the
Connecticut Western Reserve
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on the banks of the
Cuyahoga River
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As Cleveland emerged as a major manufacturing center, the river became heavily affected by industrial pollution, so mu ...
in early November 1805, shortly after Ohio had become a state. Haymaker built a
gristmill
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in 1807 to take advantage of a nearby waterfall. He sold the mill and some of the surrounding land to Jacob Reed in 1811. In 1817 Reed would sell the property to George B. Depeyster and William H. Price, who helped develop the villages of Carthage in the north and Franklin Mills in the south. These two villages would eventually grow to become today's Kent, Ohio.
See also
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History of Kent, Ohio The area now occupied by the city of Kent, Ohio, was previously inhabited by various Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes until the 19th century. Though little record of any settlement exists, the area was located along seve ...
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Haymaker Parkway
State Route 59 (SR 59) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of Ohio, serving the Akron metropolitan area. The western terminus of State Route 59 is in downtown Akron at a partial interchange with the Interstate 76/Interstate 77 ...
External links
Kent Historical Society
References
People from Kent, Ohio
History of Kent, Ohio
18th-century births
19th-century deaths
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