Twinsburg is a suburban city in Summit County, Ohio, United States, located midway between Akron and Cleveland. The population was 19,248 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Akron metropolitan area.

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In 1817 Ethan Alling, then aged 16, came to Township Five in the tenth range of the Connecticut Land Company, also known as Millsville. Alling was to survey the 400 acres (1.6 km²) of land his Connecticut family had purchased. He is considered the first settler of the town that would be renamed Twinsburg, and later he became the postmaster of the town, as well as a merchant, stagecoach operator, and hotel proprietor. A pair of identical twins named Moses and Aaron Wilcox, from Killingworth, Connecticut, purchased some 4,000 acres (16 km²) of land in 1819. They sold tracts at low prices to attract other settlers. The twins offered 6 acres (24,000 m²) of land for a public square and $20 to support the town's first school on the condition that the community would change its name from Millsville to Twinsburg.^[4]

In 1963, the Twinsburg Historical Society was founded. It was housed in the building formerly occupied by the Twinsburg Institute (founded by Samuel Bissell and built in 1863). The museum run by the Historical Society holds pictures, papers and documents related to the area's history. Tools and artifacts used by early artisans and farmers, furniture, including domestic items, clothes, and books, as well as letters and records of Twinsburg's early days, are all showcased.^[4] The Mail Pouch Tobacco sign displayed on the barn was one of the last ones painted by the famous barn painter Harley Warrick.^{[citation needed]}

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 32.3 km² (12.5 mi²). 32.2 km² (12.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.24%) is water.

Twinsburg holds a yearly festival for twins, and other multiple births, called Twins Days. The festival started in 1976 and has grown to be the world's largest annual gathering of twins, with around 3,000 sets attending annually. The festival attracts twins, multiples, and their families from much of the world, with many sets returning year after year.^[10]

The Twinsburg City School District is composed of five schools, 4,069 students, 234 classified staff, and 272 certified staff.^[12] The schools have received the "Excellent with Distinction" rating for the Ohio state tests for the 2010–11 school year.^[13] Schools in the city are as follows:

• Wilcox Primary: Grades PK–1
• Bissell Elementary School: Grades 2–3 and in 2016 Bissell Won the National Blue Ribbon school
• Dodge Intermediate School: Grades 4–6
• R. B. Chamberlin Middle School: Grades 7–8
• Twinsburg High School: Grades 9–12

According to the Twinsburg City Schools,^[14] The "Old School" located on Darrow Road^[15] was the only school building in Twinsburg until 1957, and was closed as a public school in 1992.^[16] The Twinsburg campus of Kent State Geauga occupied the "Old School" building until building a new facility in 2012.^[15] Supporters of the "Old School" have tried to have the building placed on the National Register of Historic Places, to prevent it from being torn down for redevelopment. The building has since been torn down. As of 2024, a vacant lot stands where the school once did.^[17][16]

Twinsburg is served by the Twinsburg Public Library.

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• Scott Effross (born 1993), baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees
• Kelly Herndon, retired NFL player for the Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, and Tennessee Titans
• Joe Madsen, football player
• Julia E. McConaughy (1834–1885), litterateur and author
• Dorothy Runk Mennen, theatre professor
• Dan Miller, member of the boy band O-Town
• Zoltan Mesko, retired NFL player for the New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Cincinnati Bengals
• Kevin O'Neill, former NFL player
• James Posey, retired NBA player for seven teams and former assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers
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