Dresden, a prosperous little town of Decatur county, is situated in the township of the same name, about 16 miles south of Oberlin, the county seat. It is a station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., has 2 banks, a money order postoffice with two rural routes, telgraph, express and telephone service, grain elevators, a creamery, some well stocked general stores, hardware and implement houses, a hotel, churches of the leading denominations, and good public schools. The population in 1910 was 325.