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Chagrin Falls is a village in Cuyahoga County built around its namesake waterfalls, where the Chagrin River drops about 20 feet over a sandstone shelf in the middle of downtown.

The village was settled in 1837 and incorporated in 1844, growing up as a mill town whose falls powered flour mills, paper mills, and factories along the river.

The three drops of the falls, including High Falls, are viewable year-round from Riverside Park and the Main Street Bridge.

The Chagrin Falls Popcorn Shop, built in 1875 as a showroom for the Pride of the Falls flour mill, still sells popcorn and ice cream beside the falls and is the village's most photographed landmark.

Every New Year's Eve since 2012, the village drops a giant popcorn ball in Triangle Park, the green at the center of downtown named for its shape.

Each October, Chagrin Falls High School students uphold the village's oddest tradition by rolling pumpkins down Grove Hill toward the falls.

Cartoonist Bill Watterson, creator of 'Calvin and Hobbes,' grew up in Chagrin Falls, and comedian and actor Tim Conway was also a hometown native.

The 2020 census counted 4,188 people in the village, and Census Bureau survey estimates put it at roughly 1,900 households, about four-fifths of them owner-occupied.

Chagrin Falls' storybook New England look is so convincing that the village was used as a stand-in for a New England town in a 1977 film.

The village's historic downtown, covering about 2.1 square miles roughly 20 miles east of Cleveland, is lined with Victorian-era buildings housing independent shops and restaurants.