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Education
(click here for more info and for educational materials)
Cascade Locks Park Association will coordinate field trips and programs upon request. A
donation ($25 or more) to CLPA is suggested for groups, helping us
to continue offering educational programs. Programs can be
adapted to meet the school's curriculum. Visits from "Fred and Emma Mustill"
and guided history tours of the store and park are available.
Mustill Store
CLPA volunteers staff the Mustill Store on weekends,
from 9:30am - 4:00pm, April thru October. The Store is open and free to the public. Visitors can learn about the history of the canal and the area and can purchase
Towpath and canal related items, as well as cold beverages.
The Towpath Trail
CLPA works as a partner with the City of Akron to design and oversee construction of the Towpath Trail through all of Akron. The Cascade Locks section was completed in June 2006. It includes a trailhead off North Street (directly across the street from the existing Mustill
Area lot), and runs along the Cascade Locks to the Beech Street
trailhead.
In August of 2008, the new segment of the Towpath Trail connecting
the Cascade Locks to downtown was completed! It now continues past Beech Street and provides the ADA bike connection right into downtown Akron. It
follows the Innerbelt west, then bridges over the Innerbelt to enter the Central Business District and descends to Lock 2
- making the much anticipated physical connection to downtown.
Cascade Locks Park Master Plan and Akron's CanalWay Center for the Ohio & Erie National Heritage CanalWay
Cascade Locks Park Association has completed a plan for one of Akron's two heritage canalway "nodes." These nodes, or linkage centers, are significant components of the canalway's master plan. Through a grant from the Ohio & Erie Canal Association, the FirstEnergy Foundation and the The Charles E. & Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation, CLPA worked with our partners and Behnke & Associates, Inc. to create a plan that expanded on our Cascade Locks Park Master Plan and provided recommendations to develop this area to its highest potential.
The plan presents the park as a crossroads of activity in a growing urban area with residential, retail, recreation and entertainment surrounding it. It provides connections between the Mustill
House and Store, the Towpath Trail, the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, Northside and downtown Akron. Mixed use development possibilities for Howard Street, a celebration of Howard Street's history and gateways to the park are all part of the plan. Finally, the plan features schematic design of the former site of Ferdinand Schumacher's Cascade Mills. Stay tuned for this exciting evolution of Cascade Locks Park.
Click here to see the Cascade Locks Park Master Plan, 2004
Neighborhood
The Mustill Area and Towpath Trail have added a feature to the downtown neighborhood that has made it attractive to developers and prospective homeowners. Cascade Locks Park Association is playing a role in ensuring that these developments add to the sustainability of the City and provide an attractive place to visit and live. We continue to combine our efforts of improving the neighborhood with several groups, agencies and individuals.
Hickory Street is ready for you to build!
www.akroncitylots.com
Howard Street Corridor (www.cascadelocks.org/howardstreet)
Our Howard Street Corridor Committee is working to preserve, interpret and celebrate the area’s rich history and multicultural heritage by facilitating the creation of a Howard Street corridor stretching east to west from the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad station to the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail and north to south from Glenwood Avenue to Market Street.
The committee’s vision is to create a vibrant community, celebrating the heritage and legacy of the Howard Street Area. As a coordinating group, the committee has focused on working with other neighborhood entities on various projects, including a neighborhood brochure, a community garden, banners lining the street and a website of our history and current events. (www.cascadelocks.org/howardstreet) The committee formed in December of 2002.
Archives
We are in the process of developing an archives located on the second floor of the Mustill Store. The Archives committee used a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities toward the computer program, Past Perfect, which will serve as a database of all of our materials. We are in the process of entering information on our collection. Once up and running, this will be available to the public, in the Mustill Store, for research purposes. We have received a grant from the Akron Community Foundation for supplies and organization of the archives.
We partnered with the Akron-Summit County Public Library on their Summit Memory Project. The project is a digital initiative of the Special Collections Division with a mission to improve the public's access to the remarkable historic collections found in Summit County. Many images from our collection can be found on this site.
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