Sugar Bush Knolls, Ohio

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Sugar Bush Knolls is a village in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It was formed from portions of Streetsboro and Franklin townships. The population was 227 at the 2000 census. It is essentially made up of a single affluent subdivision. The community has the highest median household income in the Akron metropolitan area.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 History
4 External links

[edit] Geography

Sugar Bush Knolls is located at 41°12′18″N, 81°20′48″W (41.204906, -81.346562)^GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and 4.17% is water.

[edit] Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 227 people, 79 households, and 69 families residing in the village. The population density was 381.1/km² (995.6/mi²). There were 79 housing units at an average density of 132.6/km² (346.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.68% White, 0.44% Asian, 0.44% from other races, and 0.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.32% of the population.

There were 79 households out of which 35.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.3% were married couples living together, 3.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.4% were non-families. 10.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.87 and the average family size was 3.06.

In the village the population was spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 17.2% from 25 to 44, 39.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females there were 102.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.4 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $129,555, and the median income for a family was $137,982. Males had a median income of $68,125 versus $48,854 for females. The per capita income for the village was $47,304. None of the families and 2.8% of the population were living below the poverty line.

[edit] History

(Source: 2005 Sugar Bush Knolls, Ohio Village Directory) Duting the Depression, the Davey Tree Company operated a nursery and experimental tree farm on the site of what is now called the Village of Sugar Bush Knolls. The Village was named for the sugar maple trees which originally stood near Lake Martin.

The Davey Company owned the land where the village is now located and kept horses in the barn on Ferguson Road where the Framptons would later live. The company owned the small white house on the corner of Ferguson and Lake Martin Drive. During the early thirties, the company offered to let Charles Miller, one of its employees, and his family move into that house, which had no electricity, telephone, or well.

In 1942 the Millers' son, "Tuck", and family moved in with the senior Millers. Calista Miller still lives in that house at 1115 Lake Martin Drive and remembers fondly her first year living out in the country. The street was just a gravel road then and did not extend out to Route 43.

Martin Davey, the president of Davey Tree, arranged to have Lake Martin (named for him), Lake Roger and Lake Quincy (for which Lake Quincy Media is named) dug out of the swampland. Lake Roger was named for William Roger Williams and Lake Quincy for David Quincy Grove, both officers of the Davey Tree Company. Harold Moore was the caretaker of the area used by Davey employees for recreation. A picnic shelter, rowboats, tree swings, and picnic tables were used for the company's picnics.

The death of Martin Davey in 1946 ended plans for building the company headquarters on the site. In the 1950s the land was divided into building lots and sold. Local businessman Cyril Porthouse purchased a number of lots and built one of the first homes. He loaned the Village money to have sewers installed so that the Village could be developed.

Some of the early homes were built by McElhones, Bushes, Longs, Kaisers, and Geldhofs.