Streetsboro’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Streetsboro. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Long before settlers moved into the Connecticut Western Reserve, Seneca Indians traversed the area now called Streetsboro. They used Old Portage Trail, which crosses the southwest corner of the city, to go from Lake Erie to the Ohio River basin.
The founder of Streetsboro Township was Titus Street from Connecticut, who purchased the land in 1798. Streetsboro Township was 25 square miles (65 km2) and contained 15,279 acres (6,183 ha). The land was surveyed by Street's agents Ralph Cowles and Lemuel Punderson in the summer of 1822, and divided into lots of 100 acres (40 ha).
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Start Streetsboro’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Streetsboro’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewOld Baptist Church, Routes 43 & 14: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Streetsboro
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Streetsboro, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
Nothing in Streetsboro is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Streetsboro has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Zeno Kent House in Aurora, 3.2 miles away.
Streetsboro and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Old Baptist Church, Routes 43 & 14 and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.