The Little Cuyahoga River ran through Brittain and was joined by Springfield lake Outlet Creek on its outskirts.
[3] Among the early settlers was Benjamin Hilbish, who farmed wheat from 1849, raised a family, and built a home in 1869.
In 1892, Sheriff Alanson Lane wrote, "Brittain (formerly for many years known as "White Grocery" [after its clean streets and several grocers]), one mile east of the city limits, on the Mogadore road, has had a hotel or two, store, post office, school house, wagon shop, blacksmith shop, clay-mill, etc., with private residences to correspond.
As Akron absorbed Middlebury to the west, and then spread into Brittain, several parts were lost to urban sprawl.
Most of what was once the Village of Brittain is at the current intersections of East Market and Mogadore Road in Akron, in the Ellet school cluster.