January 12, 2017.
Clear run on I-70 to Columbus. Stopped in Englewood, Ohio, at mm 29, for my usual Skyline Chili fix. I am getting to be a regular at this place. Still strange there is no road construction there like it was for many years. I was beginning it was going to be a forever project.
I had no problem driving through Columbus either. Of course, it was late in the rush hour.
Drove to Zanesville, Ohio, and stopped at the Super 8 Motel west of town where I have stayed many times.
--RoadDog
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Showing posts with label Zanesville Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zanesville Ohio. Show all posts
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Monday, January 31, 2011
T-Giving NC-- Cruisin' the National Road-- Zanesville East
November 21, 2010
East of Zanesville, there is a great old roadside eating place called Mickey's. Good food and atmosphere.
Baker's Motel is looking worse for wear; a big old mom and pop motel harkening back to the days of US-40 travel.
Norwich is the site of the first-recorded US pedestrian traffic fatality, and not in the early 1900s as you might think. It took place in 1831 and involved a stage coach.
I also saw the Old Stone House.
You have to really wonder when driving the original alignment of the National Road (not US-40 which was much more graded and travel-friendly although not as much as the interstates) how horses or oxen pulled the stage coaches and wagons up and down those steep hills.
Of course, there were those neat two S-Bridges before I got to Cambridge. In town, I passed the Frisbee Motel. You have to wonder how it got its name. For Christmas, they had Dicken-era statues wearing real clothes bunched around most of the streetlights. Nice touch.
Drove through town past Long's Motel and picked up I-77 going south.
Drove to the first rest area south of I-70 where I had stopped one time in the past and seemed to remember a plaque honoring the crash of an old dirigible back in the 1930s.
What Did I Spy at the Rest Stop? --RoadDog
East of Zanesville, there is a great old roadside eating place called Mickey's. Good food and atmosphere.
Baker's Motel is looking worse for wear; a big old mom and pop motel harkening back to the days of US-40 travel.
Norwich is the site of the first-recorded US pedestrian traffic fatality, and not in the early 1900s as you might think. It took place in 1831 and involved a stage coach.
I also saw the Old Stone House.
You have to really wonder when driving the original alignment of the National Road (not US-40 which was much more graded and travel-friendly although not as much as the interstates) how horses or oxen pulled the stage coaches and wagons up and down those steep hills.
Of course, there were those neat two S-Bridges before I got to Cambridge. In town, I passed the Frisbee Motel. You have to wonder how it got its name. For Christmas, they had Dicken-era statues wearing real clothes bunched around most of the streetlights. Nice touch.
Drove through town past Long's Motel and picked up I-77 going south.
Drove to the first rest area south of I-70 where I had stopped one time in the past and seemed to remember a plaque honoring the crash of an old dirigible back in the 1930s.
What Did I Spy at the Rest Stop? --RoadDog
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
T-Giving NC 2010-- Cruising Along the National Road
November 21st.
Off of I-70 and now on US-40, the National Road, in Zanesville for one of my favorite old road drives anywhere. Here, you have some really old stuff along the former early 1800s National Road as well as 1930s-1950s road culture all in one place.
Like I said, I turned off 40 too soon and crossed over the Martin Luther King memorial Bridge which is pretty its own right, but not as impressive as the famous Y-Bridge.
The current one replaced an earlier one in 1902. farther down Main Street is a unique and striking Empire Style Courthouse at 4th and Main which always reminds me of the one in Pontiac, Illinois. There were also some pottery stores (this area has lots and lots of pottery stores.
I saw a convenience store called Unky's Pointe and a Union Civil War monument.
Farther east is Greenwood Cemetery with an interesting arch entry way.
Leaving Zanesville. --RoadDog
Off of I-70 and now on US-40, the National Road, in Zanesville for one of my favorite old road drives anywhere. Here, you have some really old stuff along the former early 1800s National Road as well as 1930s-1950s road culture all in one place.
Like I said, I turned off 40 too soon and crossed over the Martin Luther King memorial Bridge which is pretty its own right, but not as impressive as the famous Y-Bridge.
The current one replaced an earlier one in 1902. farther down Main Street is a unique and striking Empire Style Courthouse at 4th and Main which always reminds me of the one in Pontiac, Illinois. There were also some pottery stores (this area has lots and lots of pottery stores.
I saw a convenience store called Unky's Pointe and a Union Civil War monument.
Farther east is Greenwood Cemetery with an interesting arch entry way.
Leaving Zanesville. --RoadDog
Monday, January 4, 2010
Zanesville, Ohio
One of those great towns along the National Road with lots of history and things to see.
Zanesville started as a 1790s settlement on the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers by Col. Ebenezer Zane and his son-in-law John McEntire. They had blazed Zane's Trace into the Northwest territory.
In 1801, the village became known as Zanesville and Zane's Trace became part of the National Road.
In 1814, the first Y-Bridge was built. Ripley's Believe It Or Not declares it "the only bridge in the world you can cross and still be on the same side of the river."
Also, located by the Y-Bridge is the Muskingum River Canal and Lock System, the only hand-operated lock system still operating ion the US. It was built between 1840 and 1860.
Besides the bridge and locks, the buildings in town are architecturally significant, especially the court house. The National Road on both sides of town is a great drive, taking you back to both the 1800s and the US Highway system of the 30s to 60s.
I must admit that the first time I crossed the Y-Bridge, I didn't know I was on it. Who'd expect to find a stoplight in the middle of a bridge?
Well Worth a Stop. --RoadDog
Zanesville started as a 1790s settlement on the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers by Col. Ebenezer Zane and his son-in-law John McEntire. They had blazed Zane's Trace into the Northwest territory.
In 1801, the village became known as Zanesville and Zane's Trace became part of the National Road.
In 1814, the first Y-Bridge was built. Ripley's Believe It Or Not declares it "the only bridge in the world you can cross and still be on the same side of the river."
Also, located by the Y-Bridge is the Muskingum River Canal and Lock System, the only hand-operated lock system still operating ion the US. It was built between 1840 and 1860.
Besides the bridge and locks, the buildings in town are architecturally significant, especially the court house. The National Road on both sides of town is a great drive, taking you back to both the 1800s and the US Highway system of the 30s to 60s.
I must admit that the first time I crossed the Y-Bridge, I didn't know I was on it. Who'd expect to find a stoplight in the middle of a bridge?
Well Worth a Stop. --RoadDog
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