Mayor Stanley A. Cmich

Historical marker location:

Central Plaza, Canton, Ohio

( Marker is on Market Avenue South north of 2nd Street SE, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2019

August 14, 1916 - January 24, 2009. Canton Safety Director 1952-1957 Mayor of the City of Canton 1964-1983.

The Ohio River, which forms the state's southern border, played a significant role in the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African American slaves to escape to freedom in the North before the Civil War.