Ohio History Journal

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TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP

TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP.

 

 

E. O. RANDALL.

Six miles east of Akron, the thriving official center of its

county, in almost its pristine solitude, pioneer simplicity and

primitive picturesqueness, lies the quiet little village of Tall-

madge. Its two or three hundred contented inhabitants go their

way today, as undisturbed by

the social follies or the com-

mercial whirl, distant but one

hour's travel, as though they

were lodged in some vast

wilderness, inaccessible to the

inroads of society's corrup-

tions. To walk the broad,

tree-canopied streets and talk

with the genuine, generous,

cultured  and  unpretentious

people of this "loveliest vil-

lage of the plain," even for

a day, is to receive rest for

the mind and peace for the

soul. It has been    t r ul y

claimed that Ohio was the

last stand of Puritanism. In

Tallmadge as no where else

in this commonwealth still lingers the influence of its New

England ancestry. The form may be much dwarfed and the

spirit be weak, but the latter is still potent enough to be felt.

To enter Tallmadge is to breathe the atmosphere of the simple

life. The vanity and vexation of the twentieth century are

strangers to Tallmadge; they would not stay long if they came,

they would feel so out of place. This is why we tell about

Tallmadge for we have been there and know whereof we speak.

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