Twinsburg is a suburban city in Summit County, Ohio, United States, located midway between Akron and Cleveland. The population was 19,248 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Akron metropolitan area.
At a Glance
- County: Summit County
- State: Ohio
History of Twinsburg
The first person to settle Millsville was sixteen year old Ethan Alling, who in 1817 moved to Township Five in the tenth range of the Connecticut Land Company. The next year, identical twins Moses and Aaron Wilcox began selling discounted parcels of land and announced they would donate 6 acres of land to the community and donate money to fund a school should the locals rename the settlement "Twinsburg." The Twinsburg Post Office was established in 1825 and was run by Ethan Alling. In addition to his duties as postmaster, Alling later would become the town’s "stagecoach operator, merchant and hotel proprietor".
The Twinsburg Historical Society was founded in 1963. They run a museum which houses historical documents and artefacts used by early settlers. The Mail Pouch Tobacco sign displayed on the barn was one of the last ones painted by the famous barn painter Harley Warrick.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Twinsburg, Ohio, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.