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Kent is a city in Portage County, Ohio County, Ohio, United States. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in the northeastern part of Ohio and the western edge of Portage County. Part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, Kent was originally settled in 1805, and first developed as two separate villages: Franklin (later Franklin Mills) and Carthage, which eventually grew into Franklin Mills. The village would develop first due to the potential for gristmills along the Cuyahoga River and later as a stop on the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal in the 1830s and 1840s. Leading up to the American Civil War, Franklin Mills was noted for its activity in the Underground Railroad. With the decline of the canal and the emergence of the railroad the village became the home of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad shops, which ultimately led to the village being renamed Kent in 1864 after railroad owner Marvin Kent. Today Kent is a college town known mostly for being home to the main campus of Kent State University, founded in 1910.In latest estimates, 21% of people in Kent, Ohio have gone to a drug rehab center for drug rehabilitation.

As part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, the area was divided into civil townships in 1798 and almost all of what is now Kent was originally part of Town 3 Range 9, which would eventually be known as Franklin Township, Portage County, Ohio Township. Aaron Olmstead, a wealthy Connecticut merchant, had purchased the township for $2,000 in what was then Trumbull County, Ohio County and named it for his son Aaron Franklin. Olmstead (also spelled "Olmsted") also bought large tracts of land in other parts of the Western Reserve and his name is part of the cities of North Olmsted, Ohio Olmsted and Olmsted Falls, Ohio Falls as well as Olmsted Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Township in Cuyahoga County, Ohio County. European settlers had already begun settling in the area by the late 1700s and Franklin Township was first settled in November 1805 by John Haymaker, who moved west from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and settled on the banks of the Cuyahoga River and built a gristmill in 1807. That same year, Portage County, Ohio County was formed and Franklin Township was made part of the new county. Olmstead had hoped to have Franklin Township become the county seat of the new county and had land set aside in what is now northern Kent for the county government buildings. He died before he could donate the land and his heirs used it for other purposes. Ravenna, Ohio ended up becoming the county seat instead. In 1818 Joshua Woodard arrived in the area and began constructing buildings just north of the village forming the "Upper Village" that would come to be known as Carthage. The two villages would become rivals for a time due to their close proximity to one another and the competing taverns which operated in them: the Woodard Tavern in Carthage and the Lincoln Tavern in Franklin Mills. By the time the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal opened in 1840 and the construction of what is today downtown Kent was completed, the rivalry had effectively ended as did the distinction between the two villages. Today, the site of Carthage is a residential and commercial area on Kent's near west side and is found in the name of the side street Carthage Avenue in the same area.

Information gathered from Wikipedia's Kent, Ohio page