City of Cuyahoga Falls history

In 1826, the United States Post Office asked the village to reconsider.

The first mayor was Henry Newbery and he was elected on April 4, 1837.

When Summit County was created by the Ohio legislature in 1840, it opened the question of where the county seat would be located.

8, 1915: High Level Bridge opens

The afternoon of July 31, 1940, Front Street near Hudson Drive was the site of the Doodlebug crash.

Still, voters did not adopt the mayor/council/charter form of government until 1959.

In the ’50’s and 60’s CFO was where many people who did not want to reside in Akron moved to… CFO began to change especially in the 1980’s… CFO has grown by annexing township land to the north.

The 1985 merger of the City of Cuyahoga Falls and Northampton Township, the first statutory merger of an incorporated and an unincorporated area in Ohio, in many ways shaped the future of the city and moved it into the 21st Century.

On January 1, 1986, Cuyahoga Falls and Northampton Township became the first two communities in the history of the State of Ohio to successfully merge by voter approval.

At the time, Buckeye was just finding its niche in Ohio’s tax credit housing program. It all started in 1995, with six wooded acres and a $300,000 mortgage.

In December 1996, one month after voters rejected Pleasant Meadows by a large majority, appellate judges ruled the petitions legal.

Pleasant Meadows was finished by 2000.

Unfortunately for Buckeye, the city still known as Caucasian Falls has proved itself pretty stubborn, too.” (From clevescene.com Originally published by /Cleveland Scene/ Oct 30, 2002 _2002 New Times, Inc.