Licking County, Ohio
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Licking, County is just east of Columbus, Ohio. It has been home to
one of the largest groups of Prehistoric earthworks in the world, as
well as an Indian flint mining site and many natural wonders. In
recent year its Longaberger Basket Company has hit gold and turned the
old canal town of Dresden into a Disneyland for baskets. So many
visitors have been coming to Dresden to take in the basket shops and
sites that Longaberger is planning no less than three theme parks
along the road to the county seat of Newark.
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The Longaberger Basket Company has finished the first of three 7 story
picnic baskets that function as their headquarters building. However,
they have a real basket in Dresden that is the world's largest and
will soon join their theme park with shops and restored old buildings.
Every shop and downtown house has been given over to basket
businesses, most of which Longaberger runs, but some are independent.
Before the Ohio Bicentennial in 2003 they hope to have Longaberger
Village (shops and big baskets), County Fair (amusement park), a golf
course, and a theme campground with sculptural carvings. They are also
restoring many old buildings in Newark.
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