One of the earliest buildings in our area was a log cabin built in 1724,eight years before George Washington was born. It was located at the foot of North Eleventh Street on the land which is now the Loyd Roland Memorial Park. The cabin was built by Philadelphia fur traders who met Indian each spring as they came to drink the medicinal waters and trade their furs. The building had wooden shutters on the north and east sides. The shutters had holes five inches in diameter, which are thought to have been used to look out for unfriendly Indians who were living in the area at the time. Many arrowheads have been found in the fields surrounding the cabin. A farmhouse and barn were added later. In modern times, the farm was owned by Clayton Wenger, Sr., who operated a bottled water business which was famous for its spring water. It was known as the Bond Spring Farm. Clayton Wenger, Jr., sold the farm to the Borough in 1951. The log cabin burned down in the early 1940s, and the Borough dismantled the barn after purchasing the property, but the original farmhouse still stands and is being lived in today.

A longstanding drought took the borough to the brink of a water crisis in May of 1981. Fire hose was laid from a hydrant in Ephrata to the borough standpipe and water was brought in from our neighbor's system. When water began to flow, the standpipe held less than a six-hour supply. The 4,400 feet of fire hose was purchased at a cost of more than $11,000. The water did not need to be pumped, because Ephrata's Spring Garden Street reservoir is on a level with the stand pipe,and the water flowed through gravity alone. A permanent hookup was installed by the end of the summer, and in 1983 the two boroughs formed a joint water authority. In 1983-84, Main Street was rebuilt from RothsvilleRoad to Tobacco Road.After construction was finished, 42 sugar maples were bought and planted along Main Street. In 1985, the borough celebrated its 90th anniversary with a celebration and the town's first official fireworks display. With the closing of the Miller Hess Shoe Company in1985, all the factories and mills, as well as the railroad, that had formed the economic base for Akron's first century were gone. As the town entered its second century in 1995, it found itself in a state of transition, but firmly rooted in the values and in the traditions of neighborliness that had served it so well through its first hundred years.