Roughly, Riverview, Boston Mills and Stanford Rds. and Main St., Boston Mills, Ohio. County/parish: Summit.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 09, 1992. NRIS 92001490.
28 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Boston Mills Historic District is a historic district in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Northeast Ohio in the United States. With the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1827, people began to settle in this vicinity. By 1842, there was a water-powered mill, a large warehouse, a boat-yard, two stores and a hotel, and the population was around 300. A number of houses and other buildings dating back to that period remain.
With the decrease in boat traffic on the canal the village declined somewhat, but its fortunes revived with the construction of the railway in 1880 and the arrival of the Cleveland—Akron Bag Company in 1900. This industry drew in many Polish immigrant workers, and housing and commercial premises were built. Many of these buildings remain today, intermingled with the older properties.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991621