Coal industrialist Hayward Kendall willed his private retreat, later named Virginia Kendall Park, to the people of Ohio following his death in 1927. The Civilian Conservation Corps built Kendall Lake in 1934-1935 by damming Salt Run. At the time Akron Metropolitan Park District (now Summit Metro Parks) managed the property. For years, people flocked here in the summer for the swimming beach and in the winter for the toboggan run and ice skating. Today’s national park visitors come to fish a...
