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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]
Location of Muskingum County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Muskingum County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
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. Today, it is the home of the non-profit G. W. Adams Educational Center, Inc.
Wakatomika was the name of two 18th century Shawnee villages in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio. The name was also spelled Wapatomica, Waketomika, Waketomica, and Waketameki, among other variations, but the similar name Wapakoneta was a different Shawnee village. Both Wakatomikas were destroyed in raids, the first by colonial Virginians in ...
Muskingum River. The Muskingum River (/ məˈskɪŋ (ɡ) əm / mə-SKING- (g)əm; Shawnee: Wakatamothiipi) [4] is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 111 miles (179 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. An important commercial route in the 19th century, it flows generally southward through the eastern hill country of Ohio.
UTC-4 (EDT) FIPS code. 39-38752 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1086723 [1] Jefferson Township is one of the twenty-five townships of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,850 people in the township.
The Muskingum Valley near Dresden, seen in 1923 from the "Geography of Ohio" According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 673 square miles (1,740 km 2), of which 665 square miles (1,720 km 2) is land and 8.0 square miles (21 km 2) (1.2%) is water. [12] It is the fourth-largest county in Ohio by land area.
Website. www.longaberger.com. The Longaberger Company was an American manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted maple wood baskets and other home and lifestyle products. The company opened in 1973, and its handcrafted baskets were a popular home decor item in the 1980s and 1990s. Founded by Dave Longaberger, the family-owned and -operated ...