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Did You Know That . . . . .

• Perkins Square, across from Children's Hospital, was designated to be the "downtown" of Akron?

• The University of Akron (founded 1870) was built on a cemetery?

• Thomas Edison was married in Akron at the home of his bride, Mina Miller?

• The reason Main Street is so wide between Mill and Market Streets is because the Ohio-Pennsylvannia Canal once ran down the middle?

• The first long-distance electric trolleys ran from Akron to Clevleand?

• East Akron, the area where East Market and East Exchange Streets meet, was once called Middlebury and was a thriving town while Akron was still a wilderness?

• The initials in B.F. Goodrich's name stand for Benjamin Franklin?

• The world's largest dirigibles were built in Akron in the Goodyear Zeppelin dock, once the world's largest building without interior supports?

• The world's first course in rubber chemistry was taught at Buchtel College (now the University of Akron) in 1908?

• A continental divide runs through Akron, causing the Ohio Canal to drain both North to Lake Erie and South to the Ohio River?

• The Street, Portage Path, was for 20 years the westernmost boundary of the United States?

• Ohio became the 17th state in the Union on March 1, 1803.

• Columbus is Ohio's largest city.

• Ohio encompasses 41,330 square miles.

• There are 44,000 miles (in length) of rivers and streams.

• Centerburg in Knox County is the geographic center of Ohio.

• At 1,550 feet, Campbell Hill near Bellefontaine is the highest geographical point in the state.

• The Ohio River near Cincinnati is the lowest geographical point in Ohio, at 455 feet above sea level.

• Eight Ohioans were elected U.S. president: William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding.

• Ohioan John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on Feb. 20th, 1962.

• Another Ohioan, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon on July 21st, 1969.