Summit Metro Parks is in the process of nominating the site of the area’s first racially integrated neighborhood — the former Wheelock Cuyahoga Acres (WCA) — to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Now part of Summit Metro Park’s Cascade Valley Metro Park, WCA was the only known Black rural community in Summit County and one of only a few in Ohio, said Charlotte Gintert, a cultural resources specialist for Summit Metro Parks.
Inhabited from the late 1940s to the 1970s, this rural development was located off Cuyahoga Street a block north of Sackett Avenue, about three miles from the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls downtown areas…