Jaite - More Than a Company Town

Jaite was a thriving community built by the Jaite Paper Company. The duplexes on Riverview Road were built in 1906 to house workers, and the single family bungalows on Vaughn Road were added 11 years later. Unlike other company towns, Jaite had no company script as money and had no enforced codes of conduct or curfews for workers. The community included children playing, adults tilling small gardens, orchards behind the homes, a post office, train stop, and general store. Most residents were Polish immigrants recruited from Cleveland neighborhoods or through relatives who also worked at the mill. In the 1950s the era of the company town ended as first the mill and then the housing were sold. The National Park Service converted the buildings to their current use in 1986.

Brecksville, Ohio · United States