Reminderville

How Reminderville began

Reminderville is a village-turned-city in northeastern Summit County, bordered by Twinsburg, Twinsburg Township, Aurora and Solon, on land that was originally part of Twinsburg Township. It was an isolated, marshy getaway reached by a dirt road until the 1940s, when truck drivers began calling it 'Reminderville' for the many Reminder families living there, a nickname that became the official name when the village incorporated in 1955 with Clement Reminder as first mayor. Glenwood Drive, finished in 1962, ended its isolation, and population rose from 217 in 1960 to 5,412 in 2020, which made it a city in 2021.

Settled early 1920s or later (Peter Grimm, first year-round settler; date loosely given), incorporated Village, 1955; city, 2021 (population passed 5,000 at the 2020 census), by residents, with Clement L. Reminder as first mayor.

Where the name comes from

The name began as a nickname in the 1940s, when truck drivers called the area Reminderville for the large number of Reminder family members living there; one trucker passed the name to another so cargo would not be wrongly delivered to Twinsburg. It became official with incorporation in 1955. Wikipedia credits first mayor Clement L. Reminder with giving the village its name; local history says the Reminders' numbers were the reason it stuck, and that without them it might have been called Grimmville for early settler Peter Grimm.

Before the town

No Native village, trail, earthwork or treaty site specific to Reminderville was found. The land was part of Twinsburg Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve, which lay within the 1785 Fort McIntosh and 1795 Greenville cession and open to settlement from the start; no township-specific Native site is documented for the Reserve townships. The county's Native record includes the Portage Path.

Timeline

1. early 1920s — Peter Grimm, born in Breitenbuch, Germany, and a teenager in Cleveland, becomes the first year-round settler in what is now Reminderville, then part of Twinsburg Township.
2. 1940s — Truck drivers begin calling the isolated, marshy, dirt-road area 'Reminderville,' one trucker passing the name to another so cargo would not be wrongly delivered to Twinsburg; many families there share the surname Reminder.
3. 1952 — With Aurora's permission, Reminderville starts a volunteer branch of the Aurora Fire Department, and Aurora donates the first engine, an outdated model.
4. 1955 — The area incorporates as the village of Reminderville, with about fifty-six families on its eastern side, taking the informal name that residents already used.
5. 1955-04 — Clement Reminder, chosen as first mayor because, as his nephew said, he was quiet, smart and wore a tie, is sworn in with the first village government; illness makes him step down after about a year.
6. 1960 — The village's population stands at 217 residents.
7. 1962 — Glenwood Drive is completed, extending the dead end at Orchard Street off Route 43 through to Liberty Road at the urging of George Reminder, Clement's brother, and giving the village easy access to Twinsburg and beyond.
8. 1980 — Population reaches 1,960, an increase of more than 800 percent over 1960.
9. 2000 — Population reaches 2,347.
10. 2010 — Population reaches 3,404.
11. 2020 — The census records 5,412 residents, a 59 percent increase over 2010.
12. 2021 — Reminderville becomes a city following the 2020 census population count.

Stories

A village named for its own mayor, or its truckers

Most Ohio place names trace to a Connecticut hometown, a proprietor, or a Native word. Reminderville's came from its roads. In the 1940s the swampy northeast corner of Summit County, reached only by a dirt track, was home to a cluster of families named Reminder, and truck drivers delivering there began calling it Reminderville, one passing the name to another so he would not take his load to Twinsburg by mistake. The nickname stuck. When about fifty-six families on the eastern side incorporated as a village in April 1955, they picked Clement Reminder as first mayor because, his nephew Charles recalled, 'Uncle Clem was quiet, he's smart and he wears a tie, so he can be mayor.' His brother George was the outspoken one who got things done, notably Glenwood Drive in 1962. A local historian says that if not for the Reminders, the place might have been Grimmville, for Peter Grimm, the first year-round resident.

Fire protection by favor

Reminderville in the early 1950s was so isolated that its residents depended on firefighters from Aurora Township. In 1952, with Aurora's permission, the settlement started a volunteer branch of the Aurora Fire Department, and Aurora donated its first engine, an outdated model. The arrangement worked until the community outgrew it, which was one of the pressures that led residents to incorporate three years later. The one road out, Orchard Road to Aurora Road, was replaced for easy travel only when Glenwood Drive was finished in 1962.

Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · twinsburg200.com · digital-release.nbc4i.com · archive.org

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