Sugar Bush Knolls, Ohio

Sugar Bush Knolls is a village in western Portage County, Ohio, United States.

[verification needed] The community has the highest median household income in the Akron metropolitan area.

The village was named for the sugar maple trees which originally stood near Lake Martin.

The Davey Company owned the land where the village is now located and kept horses in the barn on Ferguson Road where the Framptons would later live.

The company owned the small white house on the corner of Ferguson and Lake Martin Drive.

During the early thirties, the company offered to let Charles Miller, one of its employees, and his family move into that house, which had no electricity, telephone, or well.

The death of Martin Davey in 1946 ended plans for building the company headquarters on the site.

Local businessman Cyril Porthouse purchased a number of lots and built one of the first homes.

This can be attributed to Martin Davey's extreme dislike for "the devil's syrup" and his not wanting it consumed on the Lord's day.

Map of Ohio highlighting Portage County