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ZANESVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 956 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZANESVILLE , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Muskingum county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Muskingum See also:river, at the mouth of the Licking river, about 6o m. E. cf See also:Columbus. Pop. (1890) 21,009; (1900) 23,538, of whom 1435 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (191o, See also:census) 28,026. Zanesville is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, the See also:Pennsylvania, the See also:Cleveland, See also:Akron & Columbus, the Ohio River & Western, the See also:Wheeling & See also:Lake See also:Erie, the Zanesville & Western, and the Ohio & Little Kanawha (B. and O. See also:system) See also:railways, by a See also:belt See also:line around the city, and by the Ohio Electric and the See also:South-Eastern Ohio electric inter-See also:urban lines. By a See also:series of locks and dams the Muskingum river has been made navigable for small vessels to the Ohio and above Zanesville to See also:Dresden, where connexion is made with the Ohio See also:Canal extending See also:north to Cleveland. Within the city limits the Muskingum is crossed by seven See also:bridges (including a notable See also:concrete Y See also:bridge) and the Licking by two. The business districts of the city See also:lie on both sides of the two See also:rivers; the residential districts being chiefly on the hills to the north and See also:west. Among the See also:principal buildings are the Federal See also:building, the county See also:court-See also:house, the Soldiers and Sailors' Monumental Building, containing a large auditorium, the Masonic and See also:Oddfellows' temples, the See also:Market building, containing city offices, a See also:National Guard armoury, the See also:John McIntire public library, the John McIntire See also:Children's See also:Home (188o), the See also:Helen See also:Purcell home for See also:women, the county infirmary, the See also:Bethesda See also:Hospital (1890), and the See also:Good Samaritan hospital (1902; under the Franciscan Sisters). The John McIntire public library (about 20,000 volumes) is a consolidation of the Zanesville See also:Athenaeum (1827) and the Eunice See also:Buckingham library of the former See also:Putnam See also:Female See also:Seminary (1835) here; See also:Andrew See also:Carnegie contributed .$50,000 for the erection of the building. John McIntire (1759—1815), one of the See also:early settlers, provided by will for the See also:maintenance of a school for poor children, and such a school was maintained from 1836 to 1856, when it was transferred to the city school system, See also:annual contributions being made from the fund for poor children; later the McIntire Home was founded, and in 1902 donations to the city school system were discontinued and the entire revenues of the See also:estate devoted to the maintenance of the Home, which is a See also:model of its See also:kind. Zanesville is an important centre for the 956 manufacture of See also:art and domestic pottery, See also:plain and ornamental See also:tile, building and paving bricks, and other See also:clay products.

In r9o5 it ranked See also:

sixth among the cities of the See also:country in the amount of pottery produced, and third in the degree of the specialization of that See also:industry. In 1905 the value of all factory products was $7,047,637, of which $1,144,384 (16.2 per cent.) represented pottery, terra-See also:cotta, and fireclay products. Zanesville was first platted in ',Soo by Ebenezer Zane (1747—181r) of Wheeling, See also:Virginia (now West Virginia), his See also:brother See also:Jonathan, and John McIntire, his son-in-See also:law, of See also:Alexandria, Va., who under an See also:act of See also:Congress of 1796 surveyed a road from 1Vheeling to what is now See also:Maysville, See also:Kentucky, and received for this service three sections of See also:land. Jonathan Zane and McIntire selected the land at the point where the new road crossed the Muskingum river. The See also:settlement was first called Westbourne and later was named Zanesville; a See also:post See also:office was established in 18oz. Zanesville became the county-seat upon the creation of Muskingum county in 1804, was the See also:capital of the See also:state from 1810 to 1812, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1814, and was chartered as a city in 185o.

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