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PALMER
TRAVEL— “Celebrating a Century” of professional
service as the successor to Canton, Ohio’s, original
travel company founded in 1905.
The company, known as Jacob Travel, was founded by William
Jacob and was located in downtown Canton at 306 South Cherry
Street. The primary business at the time was selling tickets
for steamship travel from Europe to Ellis Island, New York
and rail travel from New York to Canton, Ohio. The business
continued to blossom and the company was relocated to the
Landmark Building on the corner of Cherry and Tuscawaras
Streets NE. Then in 1934 the travel agency moved once again
to 150 Fourth St. NE and again in 1940 the business was
relocated to the Courtland Hotel, still in downtown.
With the new airport being built on Lauby Road, business
continued to grow and larger accommodations were necessary
so the move to 128 Cleveland Avenue South in 1946. Once
more a final move in 1969 was made to the new Cleve-Tusc.
Building, also known as the William R. Day Building, at
the corner of Cleveland Avenue and Tuscarawas Street W,
where it remained until 1996.
Floyd Breit, an employee of Eastern Airlines, left Eastern
Airlines to join Jacob Travel. Some years later, in 1969,
Mr. Breit purchased Jacob Travel from the Jacob family and
renamed the business Breit Travel. He operated Breit Travel
until early 1980 when he sold the business to Donna Palmer.
Donna Palmer has been the owner of Palmer Travel for the
past 25 years. In 1990, the decision was made to open
a
second office on Everhard Road to accommodate the rapidly
growing travel business. Eventually, the downtown Canton
and Everhard Road locations were combined and relocated
to 5366 Fulton Drive NW where our office remains today.
Palmer Travel is independently owned and operated and has
grown from the early years of steamship travel to the present
time as a full-service travel company providing professional
service and guidance both for the corporate travelers as
well as vacationers.
Palmer Travel maintains a staff of eight with 110 years
of combined knowledge and experience.
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