Cuyahoga Falls High School
After the organization of Cuyahoga Falls township,
school district number one and part of district
number eight lying within the limits of the new
township were organized on April 24, 1854 as the
Cuyahoga Falls School District of which Rev. Levi L.
Holden was appointed acting manager.
On May 15, 1855 the Board of
Education employed Mr. H. K. Taylor as principal and
Mrs. Taylor as assistant, at a joint salary of $700
for forty weeks.
Mr. Taylor was succeeded by
Mr. L. H. Delano in 1861
Professor William I. Chamberlain
in 1863
Mr. George McLaughlin in 1865
Mr. W. C. Rogers in 1866
B. B. Tremlin in September 1866
Virgil P. Kline Esq. in July 1867
Edward R. Sill in September of
1869
Miss Almeda A. Booth in July of
1871
Mr. George L. McMillen in 1874
Professor Augustus N. Bernard as
superintendent and master of the Union schools in
1875.
W. H. Rowlen in 1883
Professor Frederick Schnee in 1885
The first High School was in a
building north of St. John's Church originally built
for a house of worship by the Wesleyan Methodists.
The high school was called theCentral
School (Lyceum) and
was where students attended after going to either
Stow, Tallmadge, Portage or Northampton Elementary
Schools. In
1872, Central School (Lyceum) became an elementary
school.
A three-story brick High School
building was commenced in 1866 and completed in
1871. The stone and brick work was done by George
Allison of Tallmadge. George Thomas of Akron
completed the carpenter work along with painting and
plastering. The two acres that the building sits on
was donated by James H. Cooke.
With the new building also came
new studies. Added to the norm was history,
geography, philosophy, algebra, Latin, German, etc.
The first phase of the present
high school was opened in 1922 with an enrollment of
650 students. The second phase of the "original"
building was opened in 1927. The building is located
at 2300 Fourth Street. An annex was added in 1949.
In 1961, a new addition was opened. The vocational
wing was opened in 1969.
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