Zanesville
a city and county-seat of Muskingum co., O.; on the Muskingum river, and the Baltimore and Ohio, Zanesville and Western and other railroads; 57 miles E. of Columbus.
Here are a public library, high school, Female seminary, street railroad and electric light plants, several bridges across the river, National and private banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. The principal princi interest is manufacturing. The city has blast furnaces, machine shops, foundries, glass factories, paper mills, potteries, flour mills, etc. Zanesville was named in honor of Ebenezer Zane, a pioneer settler. Pop. (1910) 28,026; (1920) 29,569.