A team of Summit Metro Parks employees and volunteers are completing an archaeological dig this week that they hope will reveal more clues about a long-forgotten Akron neighborhood.
Beneath a section of Cascade Valley Metro Park lie remnants of Wheelock Cuyahoga Acres, an interracial neighborhood from the late 1940s to the early 70s, said Metro Parks Cultural Resources Specialist Charlotte Gintert.
At a time when housing discrimination was common, this was a neighborhood where Black residents could buy a home, she said…