Real Estate

Real Estate

Early records tell of a land sale in 1636 being these 500 acres with “all howses…gardens, orchards, tenements.” The property passed from Thomas Crompe “of the Neck of Land” to Gershon Buck son of Reverend Richard Buck ...

First Ladies Garden- West Wing

Footbridge and Tobacco Road

Footbridge and Tobacco Road.

This foot bridge crosses a deep ravine.    Underneath the footbridge is a path that in the 18^th Century was known as Tobacco Road. 

Tobacco, in the 17th and 18th centuries, was a valuable form of currency. ...

The Great Valley

 The Great Valley

Before the American Revolution, this narrow footpath, cutting through the Great Valley, was a major thoroughfare that linked Yorktown's busy waterfront district with businesses and government offices on Main Street.

Yorktown

Begin at the painting in the Lobby of the Visitor Center then head out the doors and take a right on the sidewalk to continue the tour.  

Historic Yorktown

Yorktown was established by the Act for Ports of 1691, ...

Yorktown Monument

Yorktown Victory Monument

On October 24, 1781, Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, Washington's aide-de-camp, reached Philadelphia and the Continental Congress with the "glorious" news of the surrender of Cornwallis' army at Yorktown, on October 19th. On Monday, October 29, Congress officially ...

Western Reserve Academy

Two months after Ohio became a state in 1803, the Ohio State Assembly gave David Hudson and 12 others the right to found a college. Classes were not held until 1826, when the first building was erected high on a ...

Old Tannery Farm, once home of John Brown

A number of Hudson Ohio's historic plaques reference John Brown.  The famous abolitionist came to Hudson with his family as a five-year old in 1805.  

John's father Owen, often referred to as Squire Brown, played a major role in ...

First Public Structure in Hudson/First Schoolhouse in Summit County

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First Schoolhouse marker

Near the Gazebo, you will see a rock that marks the spot of the first public structure in town. 

When David Hudson founded our city, Ohio was a wilderness.     He was the only one of the ...