Zanesville

Zanesville, capital of Muskingum county, Ohio, on the Muskingum River at the mouth of the Licking, 67 miles by rail E. of Columbus. The river is navigable for steamboats to this point, and is crossed by an iron railway bridge 538 feet long, and by several others to its suburbs, Putnam and West Zanesville. It has rich coal-mines close by, and manufactures extensively engines and boilers, flour, iron, cottons and woollens, glass, paper, tiles, &c. Pop. (1880) 18,113; (1890) 21,009.