Editing Parma, Ohio (section)

===The Village of Parma (1924–1930)===
By 1920, the US census showed Parma Township had a population of just 2,345, but the following decade proved to be a time of significant growth and development for Parma. It was in the 1920s that Parma Township transformed from a farming community into a village. On December 15, 1924, Parma was incorporated as a village.

The largest and fastest growing development of that time was H. A. Stahl's Ridgewood Gardens development, which started in 1919, continued through the 1920s, and into the 1930s.<ref>{{cite news|title=From Green Fields to City Streets|newspaper=Cleveland Plain Dealer|date=September 2, 1926}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Real Estate Has Made Many Rich in City|newspaper=Cleveland Plain Dealer|date=April 13, 1919}}</ref> A resident of [[Shaker Heights]], Ohio's first [[Garden city movement|Garden City]], H. A. Stahl developed Ridgewood as an ambitious "model village" project patterned along the lines of and rivaling the earlier Shaker Heights project with "churches, schools, motion picture theater, community house, and other features forming a part of all well-developed residence communities".<ref>{{cite news|title=Thousand Acres In Latest Plot|newspaper=Cleveland Plain Dealer|date=April 30, 1921}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ridgewood - The New Home Community|newspaper=Cleveland Plain Dealer|date=July 4, 1920}}</ref> Ridgewood was designed and marketed as a [[Garden city movement|Garden City]] on 1,000 acres of land to accommodate about 40,000 residents "325 feet above Lake Erie, in the healthiest section of the South Side, free from the smoke of industries, or the congestion and noises of sections nearer the Public Square."<ref>{{cite news|title=Ridgewood - The New Home Community|newspaper=Cleveland Plain Dealer|date=July 11, 1920}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horley|first=Robert|title=The Best Kept Secrets of Parma, "The Garden City"|year=1998|publisher=Robert Horley|isbn=0-9661721-0-8}}</ref>