Aultman - Recreation

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Water Shed Park was a picnic area on Greentown side of Railroad on property of J. A. Borst

From the Guide Book for Tourists and Travelers over the Valley Railway from Cleveland to Canton, Ohio, John S. Reese, 1880.

Highland Park

In 1897 a camp meeting association leased land from the Smith Brothers and held regular meetings at the site for twenty years.  This land was described as a beautiful grove near Aultman on the Valley Railroad, nine miles north of Canton.  See The Evangelical Church in Ohio, Roy B. Leedy, Cleveland
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Photo of tent revival, possibly at Highland Park, courtesy of Akron-Summit County Public Library, Special Collections, Bev Kepler-Coss Collection
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