The Name
Captain Samual Brady was a scout and tracked Indians from Pennsylvania to Ohio in the 1780s. Fleeing a group of Indians, he jumped the Cuyahoga River at a place now known as Brady's Leap in present day Kent. He then ran the distance from Brady's Leap (presumably on a broken leg) to where he hid in lake near its west shore.

The Village
This area was mostly farmland in the 1800s. From the 1830s to the 1870s, however, A.G. Kent leased 150 acres and bought Brady Lake in order to build a resort and park, which opened June 11, 1891. People could easily reach the park by railroad and later by trolley car. In 1927 Brady Lake Village was incorporated with Mr. Morgan as the first elected mayor. There have been eleven mayors since 1927.

After Hal Lehman was elected mayor in 1995, he and the present Village Council have seen to the purchase of a dump truck, salt spreader, leaf vac, and a Ford tractor with a front-end loader. The village now has its own leaf pickup as well as brush clean up.

Brady's Monument