National Register reference number.78002165- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1910 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19101992
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Zanesville city. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
was so named in honor of Captain John C. Hazlett, of 2d O. V. I., and his cousin, Harry Hazlett, of the 5th U.S. Artillery, both of whom were killed during the Civil war; the post was organized June 1, 1881, with the following officers: C. C. Goddard, post commander; M. V. B. Kennedy, senior vice commander; Wilson C.
Zanesville and its immediate vicinity possess facilities for manufacturing in nearly, if not quite, all the industries requiring skilled labor, it is believed, all things considered, equal, if not superior to those of any place East or West. In every item to be taken into account in the make-up of a manufacturing city comparison is challenged. It was the remark of the late John Quincy Adams made in reference to the water power here existing, that "Zanesville was the Lowell of the West." Henry Clay, in one of his letters, after personal inspection of the water power at this point, said: "The water power furnished by the James river at Richmond makes it the best manufacturing site in the United States save that at Zanesville, Ohio." These opinions were expressed before the era of coal and railway transportation.
The manufacturing interest of Zanesville are at this time its leading attraction. It is a growing interest and is imparting to the city a permanent and solid character, and placing it among the most prosperous cities of the West. The progress made in this direction has been rapid during recent years. Old industries have been enlarged and extended, and new ones added which bid fair to become large and prosperous enterprises. This stimulus to manufacturing industry is attributed to the fact that fuel and living are so cheap, market supplies of all kinds so abundant, the facilities for shipment so superior, and the location so central and generally so advantageous. Besides a more enlightened and liberalized sentiment than heretofore existed now prevails, and there is exhibited more of a disposition to encourage productive enterprises by furnishing money at liberal rates to aid in their prosecution.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Muskingum River Lock No. 10 And Canal
between 2012 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
33
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 846 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Muskingum River Lock No. 10 And Canal between 1873 and 1975: 733 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Muskingum River Lock No. 10 And Canal: 5 producers, 3 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Zanesville, the town this property stands in, in 113 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 62 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 17 flash flood, 5 flood.
The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Thunderstorm winds blew down four power poles and power lines just north of Zanesville. Several trees were also reported down across the eastern part of the county.
Street flooding was reported in and near Zanesville after 1.30 inches fell in 20 minutes. Large branches were downed east of Zanesville. One branch fell on a passing motorist's car. There was no mention of any injuries.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
mile 76.6 (denoting the fact that the structure is located 76.6 miles upstream 0.8 miles in length, and begins at river mile 77.4, approximately 200' upstream control gate appears to be no longer in use. The walls of the canal are of con- Railroad bridge, a rolling lift bridge with a 12' clearance above the canal pool, is found approximately 100' downstream from the canal gate; the east span of the and the Sixth Street Bridge, with a rolling lift span, found 1000' downstream from the is the lockhouse, now used as the headquarters of the Muskingum River Parkway, the and construction materials, it was probably built shortly after the 1913 Flood. At There are two chambers: the upper is 156.5' long; the lower is 158.5' in length.
Both that of the lower pool is 665.03', resulting in a drop of a little more than 16' through the lock. The canal and lock continue in active use for pleasure craft, although a report CONDITION MOVED DATE UNALTERED their location and prospered for many years. The entire towpath area is now owned DESCRIPTION the B & 0 bridge; the Conrail railroad bridge (formerly the Pennsylvania Railroad published in 1961 did note the need for repair of some parts of the structure in order constructed around sandstone abutments, is located at the head of the canal. The from the east span of the Y Bridge.
A manually-operated wooden control gate, mature shade trees.The only piece of extant architecture associated with the Canal by the State of Ohio and is maintained as a park, with benches, picnic areas, and Muskingum River Lock No.
to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. 1788, and eleven years later, with the blazing of new trails, Zanesville was settled. The region's rich natural resources led to an accelerated growth, aided by the ex- tention of the Ohio-Erie canal system into the area in 1825. Authorized in 1836 by:the Ohio General Assembly, a navigable waterway from Marietta to Dresden (approximately in 1952. and by the late 1850s, commerce on the river had practically disappeared. From of the system and rebuilt all but one of the locks and dams in 1891. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, riverboat traffic on the Muskingum was heavy, aided veins were exhausted, and commerce on the river today is non-existent.
However, the canals and locks, especially Number 10 at Zanesville, continue in wide use during the warm months of the year, accomodating hundreds of pleasure craft each year.
1841 ART COMMERCE ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION THEATER PHILOSOPHY PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT XENGINEERING SCIENCE ECONOMICS SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCULPTURE _COMMUNICATIONS MILITARY XTRANSPORTATION LAW Josiah Spaulding LITERATURE X1800-1899 Military expeditions first entered the Muskingum River watershed during the _PREHISTORIC has provided the Muskingum County area with almost uninterrupted water service Commercial water transportation on the river flourished prior to the coming -1400-1499 Commerce through the system increased steadily until 1943,at which time some prime coal - CONSERVATION -1700-1799 _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -1600-1699 twenty miles upriver from Zanesville)was completed in 1841.The entire system consisted - RELIGION conjunction with the other locks,dams,.and lateral.canals on the Muskingum _1900- - INDUSTRY -MUSIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING this system has served the inland water transportation needs of this, area,and, in eighteenth century.
Marietta, Ohio's first permanent settlement, was founded in of a series of locks, lateral canals, and dams.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002165, 15 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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