Canton: Overview

Welcome to Canton! Whether you come for business, family or a vacation, you’ll want to return again and again. Canton’s historical presence is built on presidential timber and its crowning glory is the McKinley National Memorial, perhaps our most beautiful presidential gravesite, with lots of fun for everyone at the adjacent William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum. We also have America’s only institution dedicated to presidential spouses, The National First Ladies’ Library.

The National Football League was born here in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the Canton Bulldogs’ legendary Jim Thorpe as president. See all the history and high-tech action at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Our outstanding golf courses with all degrees of challenge have made us the golf capital of Ohio, the Akron-Canton Airport is thinking globally with a major expansion, and our historic Downtown offers fine restaurants and arts institutions, such as Canton Museum of Art.