— One of Many Points of Interest on the Muskingum River Parkway —

In the heyday of steamboating on the Muskingum, many people made
their livelihood on the river. Jane McMillan, known as Old Jane, was one
of the few women reported to have piloted boats on the river. In the
1840s she was co-owner of the "Zanesville Packet." McMillan worked a variety
of jobs, from cook to pilot. She was reported to know the twists and turns
of the river so well that she could navigate safely at night, something
many pilots refused to do.

Isaac Newton Hook, a descendant of the earliest settlers in Zanesville,
used skills he learned on the Muskingum River as a pilot on the Mississippi
during the Civil War. He shipped supplies needed by the Union army.
His tomb is in the Brick Church cemetery between Hooksburg and
Stockport. He had the grave built out of concrete and above the level
of the 1898 flood. The 1913 flood submerged the tomb, but it survived
and can be viewed to this day.

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Underground Railroad /
The Stockport Mill
Big Bottom Massacre
Brick Church and Cemetery
Water Power on the Muskingum River
Quaker Meeting House
Maple Grove Farm
Windlass or Crab Winch
Two River Towns: McConnelsville and Malta
Howard Chandler Christy

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