Akron's Ferdinand Schumacher introduced oatmeal to the United States. The Crowne Plaza Quaker Square Hotel's rooms are constructed out of 36 turn-of-the-century grain silos which once housed 1,500,000 bushels of grain.
The National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame features world-renowned musicians such as Frankie Yankovic, Johnny Vadnal, Johnny Pecon and Eddie Habat, who lived in the Collinwood neighborhood. Cleveland-Style polka has its roots in Slovenian folk music and represents the music of central Europe with an American influence.