ZANESVILLE, a city of south-eastern Ohio, U.S.A., the county seat of Muskingum county; on the Muskingum river at the mouth of the Licking, 58 m. E. of Columbus. It is on Federal highway 4o; and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Wheeling and Lake Erie and electric railways, motor-bus and truck lines and river packets to Parkersburg and Pittsburgh. Pop. (192o) 29,569; 193o it was 36,44o. The city lies on both sides of both rivers, at an altitude of 700 feet. A "Y" bridge (the only one of the type in the United States) crosses the Muskingum, its two arms running on either side of the Licking. The present concrete structure (erected 1901) replaced a covered wooden bridge of the same plan which had stood for 68 years. Zanesville is one of the principal centres in the country for the manufacture of clay products, notably encaustic and mosaic tile, art pottery, laboratory porcelain, stone ware, white china, terra-cotta and brick. Other important manu
factures are cement, glass containers, bottles and steel products. In 1927 the product of 69 factories within the city was valued at $14,407,599. There were a few pioneers on the site of Zanesville when "Zane's Trace" was cut through from Wheeling (under an act of Congress of 1796) by Ebenezer and Jonathan Zane and Ebenezer's son-in-law, John McIntire, who received for this service three sections of land. Jonathan Zane and McIntire chose their sections at the point where the new road (now the national highway) crossed the Muskingum river. The town was planned in i800, incorporated in 1814 and in 185o was chartered as a city. It was made the county seat when Muskingum county was created in 1804, and from Dec. 181o, until May 1812, it was the capital of the State. Zanesville was an important station on the old national road. The population was 9,229 in 186o.