Dresden, Ontario

Dresden
Community
Motto:  Discover Dresden: The Charm – The Beauty – The Lifestyle
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Coordinates: 42°35′25″N 82°10′54″W / 42.59028°N 82.18167°W / 42.59028; -82.18167
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Municipality	Chatham-Kent
Population
• Total	2,800
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Forward sortation area	N0P 1M0
Area code(s)	519 and 226
NTS Map	040J09
GNBC Code	FAZSG
Website	dresden.ca

Dresden is an agricultural community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, part of the municipality of Chatham-Kent. It is located on the Sydenham River. The community is named after Dresden, Germany. The major field crops in the area, by both acreage and production, are grain corn, soybean, and winter wheat.^[1] The main horticultural crop is tomatoes, followed by sweet corn and carrots.^[2]

Dresden is best known as the home of Josiah Henson, an African-Canadian abolitionist and minister whose life-story was an inspiration for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Henson homestead is a historic site near Dresden operated by the Ontario Heritage Trust.

An H chondrite-type meteorite fell near Dresden in 1939.^{[3]: 64–65}