Everett Historic District

Everett is a small crossroads hamlet in the Cuyahoga Valley, about nine miles north of Akron, where Everett Road meets Riverview Road. The district covers 17 acres and includes modest one-and-a-half to three-story balloon-frame houses, privies, garages, a gas station and confectionery built around 1930, a general store, and the ruins of wells and a former store. Archeological sites add evidence of early domestic life. The settlement grew up beside the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Valley Railway, and its 1888 population was 200. Farming was the leading occupation, and the community had a school, church, post office, Grange and blacksmith. During the 1920s the automobile and improved roads began to change its agrarian character. The district was listed for its role in settlement and community development, its late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture, and its archeological potential. Nearby Wait and Hunt farms are excluded because they were nominated separately.