BARBERTON

city, Summit county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., just south of Akron, on the Tuscarawas River, there dammed to form the Portage Lakes. It was founded in 1891 by Ohio C. Barber as the new site of his match factory (later the Diamond Match Company), which had been established in 1867 in Akron. Manufactures now include chemicals, heavy boilers, rubber goods, metal and iron products, and insulators. A local deposit of limestone more than 345 feet (105 m) thick and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) below the surface of the Earth has one of the deepest mines of its kind in the world. Inc. city, 1892. Pop. (1990) 27,623.