David Zeisberger, the Moravian missionary, preached there in 1773 in an effort to convert them; but the wrongs done to Chief Logan and other Ohio Native Americans were discussed at this place with much rancor, and war parties had been going out from here against the white settlers in spite of attempts by the Delaware (tribe) to intercede.

[6] On August 7, 1774,[7] Colonel Angus McDonald brought 400 men from Fort Pittsburg in the Wakatomica Campaign of Lord Dunmore's War to fight the Shawnee.

Beneath the name of Jonathan Cass is this inscription: "He was a soldier at the battle of Bunker Hill; an officer of the Revolution, and of the army, which, under General Wayne, gave peace to the frontier.

On the military land he purchased, he lived a peaceful and quiet life thirty years, until death claimed him for a victim.

[10][11] Seth Adams of Boston also settled the area in 1799[11] and is said to have cultivated the first tomatoes in the county from seed he got from New Orleans.

He was also one of the first to plant apple trees and helped to introduce full blooded Merino sheep to the United States.

[10] In the 19th century Dresden was an important trading town on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

[10] On February 15, 1806, Isaac Cordray was elected Justice of the Peace, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Seth Carhart.

[11] In 1812, Seth Adams, who is thought to have been a partner or an agent of David Humphreys, was credited with planting the first tomatoes in the area with seeds he obtained from New Orleans.

[11] In 1812 Otho Miller and Jacob Houser were the first blacksmiths and Judge Stillwell was operating a ferry.

[10] In 1818, John Cordray began running a tavern out of a log cabin, on the site later occupied by the Akeroyd House.

Nathan Webb, senior and junior, established the first castor oil mill west of the Allegheny Mountains in Dresden, but they did not stay in the area long.

[10][11] By 1833 Henry and Benjamin Roop of Buffalo, New York decided to compete with Laban Lemert with their own distillery and became extensive distillers.

[10][11] 1822 also saw the beginning of the construction of the main line of the Ohio Canal in Jefferson Township, which was completed in 1829.

[11] In 1825, the first Presbyterian services were held in Dresden, occasionally in private houses, but usually in a log schoolhouse on the site of the Union school building.

[10] In 1835 a brick building was erected on Main Street to house the Methodist Episcopal church.

[10] Starting in 1843, Father Gallinger held monthly services for the Roman Catholic Church in the home of G. A. Peffer.

There wouldn't be another newspaper in Dresden until Wallace and Agnew produced the Advocate in 1850, which had a run of about two years.

[15] In 1868, T. W. Peacock and son started a second newspaper in the town called the Dresden Monitor, which they sold to J.

Ownership of the Dresden Monitor then passed through the hands of L. M. Murphy, W. H. Conklin and J. T. Shryock successively.

[15] In 1874 James W. Wheeling established a newspaper called Dresden Doings which he published bi-weekly.

[10] In 1852, together with several other prominent citizens, George Willison Adams formed a stock company to build the third suspension bridge in the United States across the Muskingum river near Dresden.

[18] Dresden is the birthplace of the Longaberger Company, famous for handmade maple splint baskets.

Longaberger family, the company employed nearly 2,000[19] people as the largest manufacturer of handmade baskets in the United States.

[25] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Government.