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==History== [[File:The_Budget_Paper_Office.jpg|thumb|left|Office of ''[[The Budget]]'']] Sugarcreek's historical beginnings were rooted in cheese production. Swiss immigrants arrived in the early 1830s and used the milk from Amish dairy farms to produce their cheese. In the 1950s they created an annual Ohio Swiss Festival; the success of early festivals as an attraction for tourists resulted in local business leaders transforming the town into a Swiss village starting in 1965.<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|last=Trollinger|first=Susan L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823654526|title=Selling the Amish : the tourism of nostalgia|date=2012|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0467-7|location=Baltimore|oclc=823654526}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=117–119}} By the early 1970s the first tourist-oriented businesses were opening, and the tourism industry in Sugarcreek was centered not only around the Amish but also around a steam engine passenger train operated by the [[Ohio Central Railroad System|Ohio Central Railroad]] which ran between Sugarcreek and [[Baltic, Ohio|Baltic]] until 2004. Since the train stopped running, tourism in Sugarcreek has decreased.<ref name=":9" />{{Rp|pages=118–120}} Trollinger theorizes that unlike Walnut Creek and Berlin, which support a nostalgia that reassures tourists that what they are nostalgic for still exists in America and is therefore a nostalgia of hope, the Swiss theme of Sugarcreek inspires a nostalgia for something that is forever gone— that is, a historic period in which the United States was a European immigrant based white-majority country— and so does that not reassure many people.<ref name=":9" />{{Rp|pages=134–135,142}} Shanesville was founded in 1814 by Anthony Shane at the intersection of two [[Great Trail|Indian trail]]s (currently [[Ohio State Route]]s [[Ohio State Route 39|39]] and [[Ohio State Route 93|93]]). This village was surpassed in size and stature by Sugarcreek (then known as East Shanesville) when the [[railroad]]s came in the mid-19th century. Shanesville was administratively merged with Sugarcreek in 1969, and took up the current name for the village.[http://www.neohiotravel.com/histories/sugarhist.htm]
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