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Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, founded in 1805 by surveyor Bezaleel Wells along Nimishillen Creek and incorporated first as a village in 1822 and then as a city in 1838.

Canton was named for Canton, China (now Guangzhou) — surveyor Bezaleel Wells admired Captain John O'Donnell, the Irish merchant who named his Maryland estate after the Chinese port and was the first person to transport goods from Guangzhou to Baltimore.

Canton is the birthplace of the National Football League — the league was founded in a Canton automobile showroom on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association before being renamed the NFL in 1922.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton, chosen because the NFL was founded there, the Canton Bulldogs were an early pro football power, and local residents raised $400,000 to build it.

The Canton Bulldogs became the first two-time NFL champions, winning back-to-back league titles in 1922 and 1923.

Canton was the longtime home of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, who ran his famous 1896 "front porch campaign" for the presidency from his Canton home.

The McKinley National Memorial, dedicated in 1907, and the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum in Canton commemorate the president's life and career.

Canton is home to the First Ladies National Historic Site, selected largely in honor of McKinley's wife, Ida Saxton McKinley.

Canton had a population of 70,872 at the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous city in Ohio, with 29,959 households counted in the city that year.

The Timken Company, maker of tapered roller bearings patented by Henry Timken in 1898, moved to Canton in 1901 to be near the steel centers of Pittsburgh and Cleveland and the auto industry in Detroit and Cleveland.