City at the Summit DVD by Jack Gieck 2007, 39 minutes DVD, $13.95 courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books Call (419) 281-1802 to order by phone.

Premiering at the Civic Theater in 1976, this 39-minute film was made for Akron’s Sesquicentennial celebration. City at the Summit is a history of Akron from the time of its founding by Simon Perkins in 1825, through its becoming a major canal town, surviving the Great Depression, and becoming the “rubber capital of the world,” ending with parades and celebrations associated with the Sesquicentennial.

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Of related interest:

Early Akron’s Industrial Valley: A History of the Cascade Locks
by Jack Gieck

A Photo Album of Ohio’s Canal Era, 1825–1913
by Jack Gieck

Of related interest (DVD):

Dawn of Hope

Ohio’s Canal Era

DIG: An Archaeological Investigation in Akron’s Cascade Locks Park

Coming Home, 1865