Zanesville, city, seat of Muskingum County, east central Ohio, at the junction of the Muskingum and Licking rivers (spanned by the Y Bridge), in an agricultural and mining region; incorporated as a city 1850. Manufactures include handwoven baskets, pottery, fabricated metal, glassware, processed food, electrical equipment, paper products, and building materials. Two junior colleges, the Ohio Ceramics Center, and the National Road-Zane Grey Museum are here. The community, settled about 1797, was first called Westbourne and was renamed Zanesville in 1801 for the frontiersman Ebenezer Zane, who blazed a trail (Zane's Trace) from present-day West Virginia to Kentucky and was given land here. Zanesville served as the capital of Ohio from 1810 to 1812. The writer Zane Grey, a descendant of Zane, was born in the city. Population 28,655 (1980); 26,778 (1990); 25,586 (2000).Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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