Dresden, Ohio Dresden, Ohio Dresden Suspension Bridge Dresden Suspension Bridge Location of Dresden, Ohio Location of Dresden, Ohio Location of Dresden in Muskingum County Location of Dresden in Muskingum County Coordinates: 40 7 17 N 82 0 47 WCoordinates: 40 7 17 N 82 0 47 W Country United States State Ohio Dresden is a village in Jefferson and Cass townships in Muskingum County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River at the mouth of Wakatomika Creek.
Dresden is positioned on or near the site of a Shawnee (Native American) village known as Wakatomika, which gave its name to Wakatomika Creek, the creek that empties into the Muskingum River near the northern edge of the village.
He was also one of the first to plant apple trees and helped to introduce full blooded Merino sheep to the United States.
In the 19th century Dresden was an meaningful trading town on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
A side cut canal linked the Ohio and Erie Canal with the Muskingum River. Mordecai Ogle settled on a farm about half a mile northeast of Dresden in 1802. An election was held in April 1805 to elect officers for Jefferson Township in the home of Henry Northrup. Seth Carhart, Valentine Johnson and Isaac Cordray were propel as trustees.
Since he wasn't propel in this election, it is reasonable to assume there was at least one election held before to this one in 1805. Monroe directed a distillery on his farm about four miles above Dresden on the Muskingum. He was among the first to plant peach and apple trees.
The town of Dresden was laid out in 1817.
Nathan Webb, senior and junior, established the first castor petroleum foundry west of the Allegheny Mountains in Dresden, but they did not stay in the region long. 1822 also saw the beginning of the assembly of the chief line of the Ohio Canal in Jefferson Township, which was instead of in 1829.
The Dresden side-cut was ready for use in 1831. In 1825, the first Presbyterian services were held in Dresden, occasionally in private homes, but usually in a log schoolhouse on the site of the Union school building.
8 Mar 1835 was the date of Dresden's incorporation. Deffenbaugh presented the first copy of the town newspaper, Dresden Chronicle.
Saint Ann Catholic Church (Dresden, Ohio) There wouldn't be another journal in Dresden until Wallace and Agnew produced the Advocate in 1850, which had a run of about 2 years.
1848 also was the year a telegraph line from Zanesville to Wooster passed through Dresden and a telegraph office was opened.
In 1852, together with a several other prominent people, George Willison Adams formed a stock business to build the third suspension bridge in the United States athwart the Muskingum river near Dresden.
When the other members of the business became fearful that the plan was not feasible and that they would lose their cash, Adams assembled the bridge at his own cost, his nephew, George Copeland, was the bridge's engineer.
It was 1000 feet in length, cost $30,000.00 and was made from materials produced in Dresden.
The bridge was run as a toll bridge for a several years before Adams eventually sold the bridge to the county commissioners for one-third of the initial building cost of the bridge.
Peacock and son started a second journal in the town called the Dresden Monitor, which they sold to J.
Ownership of the Dresden Monitor then passed through the hands of L.
Wheeling established a journal called Dresden Doings which he presented bi-weekly.
Smith began publishing the paper weekly and continued publishing the Doings until 1879 when it became The Dresden Transcript.
The early spring of 1901 saw the beginning of assembly of the Dresden telephone exchange.
Dresden is the place of birth of the Longaberger Company, famous for handmade maple splint baskets.
Longaberger family, the business today employs nearly 2,000 citizens as the biggest manufacturer of handmade baskets in the United States.
Dresden is positioned at 40 7 17 N 82 0 47 W (40.121286, -82.013094). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 1.18 square miles (3.06 km2), of which 1.14 square miles (2.95 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. The median altitude of Dresden is 741 feet (226 m). Climate data for Dresden, Ohio In the village, the populace was spread out with 28.0% under the age of 19, 4.8% from 20 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Dresden is positioned in the Tri-Valley Local School District, and is home to Dresden Elementary School, Tri-Valley Middle School, and Tri-Valley High School.
Dresden is served by a branch of the Muskingum County Library System.
Dresden has the following historic structures of note: The Triple Locks of the Ohio and Erie Canal side cut canal.
The historic 1914 metal link suspension bridge athwart the Muskingum River.
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