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The Ohio & Erie Canal is maintained, to this day, as a water supply for local industries. After the flood, a few sections of the canal continued in use hauling cargo to local industries. Another watered section extends from the Station Road Bridge in Brecksville northwards into Valley View and Independence, all Cleveland suburbs.
In the 19th century Dresden was an important trading town on the Ohio and Erie Canal. A side cut canal linked the Ohio and Erie Canal with the Muskingum River. [12] Mordecai Ogle settled on a farm about half a mile northeast of Dresden in 1802. [11] In 1804, Seth Adams had a "corn-cracker" mill on Wakatomika Creek. [10] [11]
Ohio's GDP per capita in 2015 was $52,363, ranked 26th among the states in GDP per capita. [132] From 2005 to 2015, " Ohio's economy grew more slowly than the U.S. as a whole, growing at an average nominal (i.e., not inflation-adjusted) annual rate of 2.6%, compared to the U.S. average annual growth rate of 3.2% over the same time period. [132]
Prospect Place mansion as it appeared in the 1866 epigraphic survey of southeastern Ohio. Prospect Place House. Prospect Place, also known as The Trinway Mansion and Prospect Place Estate, is a 29-room mansion built by abolitionist George Willison Adams (G. W. Adams) in Trinway, Ohio, just north of Dresden in 1856.
1800s Ohio elections (6 C) This page was last edited on 11 June 2022, at 16:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Fort Stephenson, first called Fort Sandusky, was constructed here in the early 1800s. It had two blockhouses connected by a palisade stockade of vertical logs. Another blockhouse was located within the fort. It was intended to protect the Lower Sandusky and a nearby supply depot during the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The United States ...
In 2006, it was designated "An Ohio Water Trail;" this designation provides for increased canoe access on the river. Located north of the Mason–Dixon line , from around 1812 to 1861 the Muskingum River was a major Underground Railroad route used by fugitive slaves escaping from the South on their journey north to Lake Erie and Canada .
Adams Mills is a small unincorporated community in northeastern Cass Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. [1] [2] It is located on State Route 16 four miles northeast of Dresden. Little more than a grocery stop in the early 20th century, this mostly residential community grew up around the Adams Brothers flouring mill in the 1830s. [3]