As Akron celebrates its bicentennial in 2025, we’re looking back at two centuries of headlines.

Visit BeaconJournal.com every Sunday morning throughout the bicentennial year for a look back at the week in Akron history.

Here’s what happened this week in local history:

1825: Work concluded on the First Congregational Church of Tallmadge , a construction project that had taken three years to complete. The Rev. Simon Woodruff had raised a subscription of $3,500, payable in labor, lumber and wheat. The standard of values, wheat was worth about 25 cents a bushel. Congregants from throughout the county dedicated the church Sept. 8, 1825. It remains a Tallmadge Circle landmark 200 years later.

1875: Undertaker H.D. Cole, whose funeral parlor stood at 132 S. Howard St., proudly advertise

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