From Cornwall to Akron: Summit County’s Titanic Passengers

March – May 2012

One hundred years ago this April, the world witnessed one of history’s greatest disasters, the sinking of the Titanic.   Although this tragedy has been commemorated and documented in countless ways over the last century, we sometimes forget that those who were lost, as well as those who survived, were real people with lives and families, not simply characters in a book or movie.  Twelve passengers from Cornwall, England were bound for Akron when the ship sank on that fateful night.  Nine survived.  This exhibit honors these brave individuals and families, and examines Akron’s Cornish community in the early years of the 20^th century.