For nearly a decade, Jane Greenland led an initiative to change the name of West Akron’s Schneider Park to memorialize the people buried there.
Greenland, who has lived across the street from the park for 32 years, told Akron City Council members she didn’t know the park was the resting place for hundreds of residents of the Summit County Infirmary, located near West Exchange Street and Storer Avenue (across the street from today’s Will Christy Park).
Then she saw University of Akron archaeology professor Tim Matney and a group of archaeology students working with their equipment in the park in 2017…