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The village was destroyed during Lord Dunmore's War in 1774. After the American Revolution, the valley along Wakatomika Creek was one of the first areas in present-day Muskingum County to be settled by white Americans. The Longaberger Basket Company maintained a large facility in the Wakatomika Valley between Frazeysburg and Dresden.
In May 2015, Tami Longaberger, who had led the company since Dave died in 1999, [6] resigned as chief executive officer and director of the company. [12] In February 2016, the company said it would sell the Basket Building and move its employees to Longaberger's factory in Frazeysburg, Ohio. [13]
Dresden is the birthplace of the Longaberger Company, famous for handmade maple splint baskets. Started in 1919 by the J.W. Longaberger family, the company employed nearly 2,000 [ 19 ] people as the largest manufacturer of handmade baskets in the United States.
Abandoned in the last century, it became a ghost town. Now, a project is bringing in new residents, and promoting sustainable living. This 300-year-old farming village was abandoned in the 1960s.
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Longaberger, a major basket-maker, had their new corporate headquarters in Newark designed as a gigantic "medium market basket," their most popular model. The main shopping center in the area is the Indian Mound Mall , located in nearby Heath .
Today, the Olympic Village located in Elstal, Wustermark, on the edge of Berlin, sits in ruins -- but it once held a controversial Olympic Games. Hitler's abandoned Olympic Village is now a ...
Dave W. Longaberger (1934–1999) was an American businessman who founded the now-defunct Longaberger Company, which made handcrafted maple wood baskets and accessories and became notable in the Newark, Ohio area for the "Big Basket Building" that became the company headquarters in 1997. [1]