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Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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ave, by the charter, a rightof admission, and during their stay in Zanesville can always find there access tomany of the leading journals of the United States and to a library of betweenthree and four thousand volumes, embracing very many choice and rare books inliterature and science ; while additions are annually made with the funds arisingfrom rents and $5 per annum paid by each stockholder. There is a commence-ment for a cabinet of minerals and curiosities, but that department has neverflourished as its importance demands. The water-works of Zanesville are very great. The water is thrown by apowerful forcing pump from the river to a reservoir upon a hill, half a mile dis-tant, one hundred and sixty feet above the level of the pump, and thence letdown and distributed by larger and smaller pipes into every part of the town,furnishing an ample supply for public and private purposes, as well as providinga valuable safeguard against fire. By attaching hose at once to the fire-plugs the
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Dratm by Henry Howe in 1846. Putnam. water may be thrown without the intervention of an engine by the pressure ofthe head, far above the roofs of the houses. The public pipes are all of iron, andat present there are between six and seven miles of pipe owned by the town,besides that owned by individuals and used in conveying water from the streetsand alleys to their own hydrants. Much of this, however, is of lead. Thecost to the town has been about $42,000. The reservoir is calculated to con-tain about 750,000 gallons. The present population of Zanesville is prob-ably something under 8,000, excluding Putnam, AVest Zanesville and SouthZanesville. (These villages are now (1890) included in Zanesville.) Putnam is less dense in its construction than Zanesville and contains manybeautiful gardens. It being principally settled by New Englanders, is in appear-ance a New England village. The town plat was owned and the town laid outby Increase Matthews, Levi Whipple and Edwin Putnam. The latter

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