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Knight N T 8 T N Convention S MARCH 2021 TOUR: I T Q Huntington Center I U P Tower M A Cascade 3 M CE M NT K Cascade Gothic A ER T U R Luck of the Irish S E K T S Bldg T ) SH Plaza Greystone S E AY A R T S T W M S S E Hall ILL T RE S S E IR F Cascade I Main T LK T G F (M P E PNC Bldg Place 9 N L 5 R L L T S P BEL R O ER E C NN L Sláinte! (slawn-cheh) I P Lock 4 E UA E H Quaker T T B S T W Y S OWE S WER R Square an Irish greeting for health, often BO Y N N Akron N ST I C L P HU City IO Civic Theatre A O RC Hall N H C Canal MSummit S Ocasek U said as tapping beer glasses T N 9 Bldg I Square S County T L S T Akron Lock 3 P H E S G RG Children’s I FO T H Summit P Hospital S Y Children’s State St 4 S Y County A Explore downtown this month R Hospital T E Deck Courthouse W C Parking O’Neil’s W D Deck S P A N O TA Bldg B TE Stubbs O O and learn about Akron’s Irish S R T T UA Justice NIHF L U B I P 3 N Polsky I Center STEM M 2 VE S R A Bldg SI School heritage. T H Y A EJ Thomas Akron Considine VE Children’s Bldg 1 Canal Park Performing N parking deck I The University of Akron Lock 2 A Arts Hall E T BUCHTEL AVE M S V E UA L A For information on where to park X S T C IL H Polsky N S A Richard N H T G Howe Parking UA O E T S S T House Bus Adm L and ways to extend your Deck I U C Bldg BU M O C L Hamlin HT A experience in downtown through T E H S Bldg L L E AV R N E E N T U dining, shopping and events, visit T T A S S Lock 1 D W M H R A I L G I K DOWNTOWNAKRON.COM. IL W H R I L S U K A P 22 D A O SP Exchange EN O ST Apartments G T S RROLL ST T C CA S ED The EX MAP KEY AES N A C U I R Depot HA C T Business A 401 ST N O S Apartments GE L ER M Lofts Y S AT Complex A T W S Apartments W D A ST TOUR STOps A RC ORCHARD O D R R B SE S Spaghetti LLE PARKING Warehouse P ST R O P S A P A R K S D R HARVEY CT F AL OR ST University of Akron Bounce Innovation Infocision Stadium Hub Summa Field EX CH R E GOJO R AN O C S G I Bldg A P E A P RK Y ST S S Canal DR K P Place N S I D E A R Y G M A K D T R E S S P W I L D K H A F D IG O L O H R METRO O P B S O Transit W B G ARTG S CROUSE ST ES ST Center POWER ST 1 An Ghorta Mhóir 6 Fran McGovern Location: On the left as you go up the steps between the Ghost Location: 47 N Main Street - the former Ohio Edison Company Boat and Akron Children’s Hospital. Building This memorial is dedicated by the ladies and gentlemen of the Fran McGovern (1927 – 2004), was an attorney at old Ohio Edison Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, Mark Heffernan Division, Company Building, previously the Northern Ohio Traction and Akron, Ohio, to commemorate all those who suffered, died in the Lighting. Armed with a degree in economics from The University Great Hunger in Ireland, 1845-1850. The Great Hunger is also known of Akron, Ms. McGovern went on to earn her law degree from Case as the Potato Famine when a fungus-like organism called Phytoph- Western Reserve University Law School in 1949. She was elected thora infestans (or P. infestans) caused the ruin of half the potato to the Ohio General Assembly in 1954 representing Summit County. crop in 1845 and about three quarters of the crops for the next She won reelection in 1956 and 1958 as chairwoman of the House several years. Judiciary Committee. In 1961, McGovern was appointed to fill a vacancy at the Ohio Public Utilities Commission (PUCO), making 2 Ghost Boat at Lock 2 her the first woman in the county to hold such a position. Eventually, she became chairman. She became an attorney for Location: Lock 2 sits along the Ohio and Erie Canal between Ohio Edison in 1965 and retired in 1989. She is also the author of Canal Park and Akron Children’s Hospital. several books: Fun, Cheap and Easy; Written on the Hills: the Have you ever wondered what the inside of a canal boat looked Making of the Akron Landscape; and Joe’s Place: Conversations on like in the 1800s? Thanks to Akron Civic Commons and New the Cuyahoga Valley which was a collaboration with Joe Jesenky Territory’s augmented reality experience, you can see and move with Russ Masarra, Dr. Lynn Metzger and illustrator Chuck Ayres. about a canal boat with your smartphone. Download the NT One Fun Fact: The surname of McGovern is Mag Shamhrain in Irish app on your phone, then scan the image on the side of the ghost Gaelic meaning descendant of the summer person. boat to start your experience. 7 Old Dublin and the Irish Cemetery 3 O’Neil’s Department Store Location: 27 Ridge Street - Akron Northside Station Location: 222 S. Main Street at the corner of Main St. and State Standing at the northeast corner of the Akron Northside Station, St. look to your right towards today’s Cascade Village. Irish When the Pennsylvania & Ohio canal was filled in mysteriously one immigrants to the area during the canal era helped dig both the evening in the late 1870s, it paved the way for Akron’s Main Street Ohio & Erie and Pennsylvania & Ohio canals through Akron. Long to become the main shopping thoroughfare that you know it for hours and little pay rewarded these workers who connected Ohio’s today. Two Irishmen, Michael O’Neil and Isaac J. Days, came to wilderness to the rest of the world. They lived in little shanty Akron in 1877 with experience as owners of dry goods stores. First villages along the rough and tumble overgrowth and then buried established as O’Neil & Days, their original store, which they soon their dead on the high bluff above the Cuyahoga River. The outgrew, was at the southwest corner of Main and Market. In establishment of this location was the third such burial ground in February 1889, they built a four-story building on Main St.