Ohio Real Estate & Relocation Guide

Sagamore Hills, Ohio

Population: 9,340

Located in Summit County

Sagamore Hills, Ohio

Sagamore Hills is located in Summit County, Northern Ohio, and is home to just over 9,000 residents. Nordonia Hills City School District services Sagamore Hills as well as surrounding communities.

Cities nearest to Sagamore Hills are; Cleveland, OH (16.2 miles), Northfield, OH (2.6 miles), Twinsburg, OH (3.4 miles), Oakwood, OH (3.4 miles), Glenwillow, OH (3.6 miles), Boston Heights, OH (4.3 miles), Walton Hills, OH (4.9 miles), Bedford, OH (5.6 miles) and Bedford Heights, OH (6.0 miles).

Sagamore Hills was incorporated in 1931 and is full of historical sites today.

Some of the current historical sites within Sagamore hills include parts of the trails in Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area and Brecksville Reservation. Also known as the Cuyahoga Valley Long Loop; the 3G-mile Old Carriage Trail follows part of a 20-mile network of graded carriage roads built between 1910 and1940 by Wentworth Marshall, a Cleveland drugstore magnate and is located in Sagamore Hills. Marshall and his wife, Louise, purchased 1000 acres of farm land in Sagamore Hills Township in the early 1900s and built a summer home called Rocky Run. Most of the old Marshall property is now a housing development, but about 400 wooded acres of the estate became part of the national recreation area.

Historical Locks are open to the public in Sagamore Hills. Lock 34 or "Red Lock" is one of 44 locks along the Ohio & Erie Canal that lifted canal boats 395 feet between Cleveland and Akron. Although the origin of its name is not certain, Red Lock may have been named after the red-painted lock gates, or because red clay was found along the canal in this area. Between 1905 and 1909 the State of Ohio performed repairs with concrete on the locks original sandstone blocks. The remains of this concrete are still visible. Lock 35 in Sagamore Hills where an exhibit near this lock contains an historic photograph with a caption that reads: Lock 35, also known as "Whiskey Lock," in 1923.

Today visitors to Sagamore Hills enjoy countless options for entertainment and dining: entertainment in sports (biking, hiking, skiing, golf... to name a few), history, the arts, shopping... even amusement parks. Dining opportunities in Sagamore Hills range from "the greatest burger" to 5-star venison. Often, however, visitors decide to stop running for a day or two...to walk; to listen to nature; to visit the Brandywine waterfall or take a stroll through some of the 33,000 acres of Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area.