![]() Silver Lake incorporated as a village in 1918 on land that had previously been part of Stow Township. Cuyahoga Falls incorporated as a village in 1868 and later annexed additional portions of Stow Township in the 19th and 20th centuries, as did Munroe Falls. In 1851, Cuyahoga Falls Township was created, taking the southwest corner of Stow Township along with parts of three neighboring townships. Cuyahoga Falls was developed on land owned by Wetmore and Joshua Stow beginning in 1825 in the southwestern part of the township and became a town in 1837. Munroe Falls was settled in 1809 as "Kelsey Mills" in the southern part of Stow Township and incorporated as a village in 1838. Most of the original 25-square-mile (65 km 2) township is part of the present city of Stow, but parts of the original township form all or part of three neighboring communities. It remained as part of Portage County until it was included in the new Summit County in 1840. 1808 was also the year it was made part of the original Portage County. Stow Township was formally organized in 1808 with the first election held in 1811. The house overlooked a small lake, known as Silver Lake since 1874, that was known earlier as Wetmore Pond or Stow Lake. In 1808, the Wetmores built a home near the Seneca settlement in what is now Silver Lake. ![]() The Wetmores built a cabin in July 1804 near the center of Stow Township and the present-day intersection of Darrow Road and Kent Road. Darrow had been hired by Joshua Stow's land agent William Wetmore, a settler also from Middletown, Connecticut, who moved to Stow in 1804 with his family and several other settlers. Walker purchased the lot his home was on and continued to live there. In 1804, when Stow Township was separated from Hudson Township and surveyed into lots by Joseph Darrow, it was discovered his house was actually in Stow Township. Walker built a cabin just south of the land of his father Robert in Hudson Township mistakenly believing he was building in Hudson. ![]() The first settler in Stow Township was William Walker, who arrived in 1802.
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