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Zanesville: Y bridge
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Zanesville

Ohio, United States
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Zanesville, city, Muskingum county, east-central Ohio, U.S., at the juncture of the Muskingum and Licking rivers (there spanned by the Y Bridge [1902]), about 50 miles (80 km) east of Columbus. The town was founded (1797) by Ebenezer Zane on land awarded him by the U.S. Congress for clearing a road (Zane’s Trace) through the forest to Limestone (now Maysville), Ky. Zane sold the land to his son-in-law, John McIntire, who laid out the village of Westbourne (1799; renamed Zanesville, 1801) and who was instrumental in making it the county seat (1804) and state capital (1810–12). Economic progress started with ...(100 of 361 words)

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