a town in the State of Ohio, United States of North America, on the left bank of the Muskingum, 80 miles from its mouth, and 52 miles E. of Columbus. The town is regularly laid out with wide and straight streets, and contains many superior buildings. The county buildings are very handsome, besides which there are fourteen churches, two banks, numerous schools and academies, among which is a free school, founded by John M'Intire, one of the first settlers in the place, and an atheneum, with a reading-room and library of 10,000 volumes. There is here abundance of water-power, and bituminous coal is found in abundance in the adjacent hills. In 1850 there were 1 cotton factory, 2 woollen factories, 1 nail factory, 2 glass-works, 5 ironfoundries, 1 paper-mill, 5 flour-mills, 2 oil-mills, and 5 newspaper offices. The town is connected by bridges with the three suburbs of Putnam, South Zanesville and West Zanesville, on the opposite bank of the river, over which the Central Ohio Railway Company have also erected an iron bridge 538 feet long. This line connects it with Columbus on the one side and Wheeling on the other, while another, the Zanesville, Wilmington, and Cincinnati line, is in course of construction. It has also, by means of the river, regular steam-communication with Cincinnati and other places. Pop. (1850) 7929, with suburbs 10,355.