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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VEV_three-muskingum-county-courthouses-historical_Zanesville-OH.html
Three Muskingum County Courthouses have stood on this site. the second (depicted above) served as the Ohio State Capitol from 1810 to 1812
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VA0_y-bridge-historical_Zanesville-OH.html
On November 16, 1814, the Muskingum Messenger reported, "Muskingum and Licking Bridge, This grand and important work is now possible. Great credit is due to Mr. Rufus Scott, the architect. Now the south and north sides of Licking Creek w…
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Edward Edison Smith was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and arrived in Muskingum County about the same time as his neighbor, Uzal Headley. Smith was a farmer who built a log house near this site and, after the National Road reached Zanesville i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V9M_headley-inn-historical_Zanesville-OH.html
One of the most beautiful and interesting of the old stopping places is the Headley Inn which provided lodging and refreshment for the westward tide of immigration for 30 years. The Headley Inn dreamed half a century away over rooms stored with fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V0T_zanesville-historical_Zanesville-OH.html
Zanesville, the county seat of Muskingum County, was named for Colonel Ebenezer Zane. In 1796 Congress commissioned Colonel Zane to build a road from Wheeling, Virginia (later West Virginia) to Limestone, Kentucky (present Maysville, Kentucky)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S50_anti-slavery-tensions-in-muskingum-county_Zanesville-OH.html
Side A In the early 1800s, opposing attitudes existed in the separate communities of Putnam and Zanesville. Anti-slavery New Englanders settled Putnam while pro-slavery Virginians and Kentuckians settled Zanesville. The Emancipation Society of Pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160G_world-war-ii-and-korean-war-memorial_Zanesville-OH.html
Names on the helmets of military men from Muskingum County who gave their lives for freedom in WWII and the Korean War [Roll of Honored Dead]
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTIF_nelson-t-gant-house_Zanesville-OH.html
Nelson Talbot Gant was freed from slavery by the last will and testament of his owner, John Nixon, September of 1845 in Loudoun County, Virginia. However, Gant's wife, Maria, was a slave to Jane Russell of Leesburg, Virginia. According to Virginia…
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FrontNelson T. Gant as one of Zanesville's most prominent African American citizens. Born into slavery on the Woodburn Estate of John Nixon of Loudoun County, Virginia on May 10, 1821, Nelson was given is freedom by the provisions of his master's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ9F_zanesville-and-muskingum-county-artwall_Zanesville-OH.html
This is a "rubbing" wall which depicts the proudhistory of Zanesville and Muskingum County.Historic images are surrounded by tilesdepicting foliage from the Ohio Buckeye tree.The images are in order of their datesbeginning with the image to your r…
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