The Muskingum County
Supersite Any listing of Zanesville area web sites must start
with SAS Studio's The Muskingum County Super Site. It has an exhaustive business page with email
links, a companion Dresden site, maps, event calendars, tourism,
etc. Upside this place is loaded! Downside
lose the midi.
The Zanesville-Muskingum County
Chamber of Commerce web site has a monthly newsletter, news releases and a thorough business
listing without email links. Upside surprising demographics section.Downside
needs more area links.
Area Guide: Zanesville
As a rule "city.net guides," created out of the local area, are
little more than ad-disguised search engines. This is an exception. It's not bad.
However, skip right past the silly add-on "white pages."
Upside many phone numbers, but no
links. Downside cumbersome, slow interface which requires going through at
least four screens.
Cyberzane
"Net.communities" thrive on shared ideas, not shared localities. Cyberzane
might work in 2 yrs, when everyone is wired. Upside
The best church listings. Downside Incomplete business area, dead
"classified ads."
Globalnet's Virtual Mall
This has a"boarded-up" feeling about it.
Upside The employment area has several job
listings. Downside The Muskingum County Fair is the
sole link in the "entertainment and dining" area??
Allstate's
Relocation Center is a perfect example of a search engine
disguised as a city directory. Upside A few
business numbers not available elsewhere online. Downside Dead end links,
slow loading pages, web addresses mixed with local numbers, forcing users
to choose from multiple search engines on the 3rd or 4th page of their
search....this site is a mess.
Online Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia
Britannica The 2 paragraph Zanesville entry is crammed with history and is a great
starting point for research papers.
infoplease.com
Compact, one paragraph history of Zanesville...good as a second source.
Encarta Online Basic online
scholarship should be free. Britannica.com understands this. Encarta does
not. Skip Encarta.
Funk and Wagnall's
online To get to the free stuff, you have to be assigned a user name
and password. Although it doesn't take much time, the information gained does
not make it wothwhile. Don't bother.
Compton's Online Log onto
Compton's and you get this message: "Compton's Encyclopedia Online's
subscription service is currently offline. To subscribe, please check back
in a few days."...Scratch Compton's, they do not understand the internet.
Encyclopedia.com A waste of
time. No Zanesville entry, but it does have listings for native sons, Zane
Grey and Gilbert Cass. Brittanica.com and Infoplease do it better.
Zanesville Search Results
Brittanica.com A good place to start, includes Zanesville and Muskingum County-links to TIME magazine and Barnesandnoble.com.
The
State Library of Ohio 59 Zanesville references, including the
1905 classic: "Past and
Present of the City of Zanesville and Muskingum County, Ohio."
The State of Ohio Search 1727 Zanesville entries, as of
this writing, are mainly State Supreme Court cases.
Excite News Search
Short weekly listings of Zanesville-related news articles.
Bibliofind. Rare used books from throughout the net. Many Zanesville-related books, such as Seth Williston's 1815, "FIVE DISCOURSES ON THE SABBATH," offered here for $150.00.
ebay 79 Zanesville items found on the Ebay search, including the 1920's postcard at the top of this page, "first bid accepted at $3."
NY Times Search 4 references, including how Zanesville is connected to Theodore John Kaczynski, aka "the Unabomber."
Amazon.com Search 10 findings, such as 1993's "Professional Baseball Franchises : From the Abbeville Athletics to the Zanesville Indians."
CDNOW Search Order the 1942 recording "Drop me off in Harlem," by Charlie Barnett and his Orchestra and swing to song # 20, "Zanesville Ohio ZZZ.".....proof that some things never ever change.
LA Times Search An article on those wacky airport codes. Did you know that Sioux City "SUX", or that Zanesville is at the very end of the world-list with "ZZV" ?
Mileage Search A site that caculates the mileage between most cities on earth. It is, for example, 7709 miles between Zanesville and Taipei, Taiwan .
Internet Movie Database Bet you didn't know that in the 1949 movie "The Great Lover," Bob Hope, in the role of "Freddie Hunter" sneers, "Where do you think I'm from, Kokomo ? I'm from North Zanesville, brother! The *big* town!"...or, did you know that ESPN sportscaster Dan Patrick was born in Zanesville
in 1956 and that he was in the Adam Sandler movie, "The Waterboy" where he played, now here's a stretch, himself ?
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Awesome lit search turns up 2 works, "Downs, E. C. Four Years a Scout and a Spy. Zanesville, O., 1866." and "Marshall, W. P. Afloat and Ashore; or, Notes of Three Years' Life at Sea… during several voyages of the U. S. S. Lancaster and Saranac. Zanesville, O., 1876."
Detroit Free Press Article "Travel Section" article from Oct ' 96. Many facts, including Zane Grey's first name... "Pearl."
The Political Graveyard "The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried" ..a favorite site for cemetery junkies; includes Zanesville entries.
The Basket Collector's Webring Webrings are web sites that are joined by topic. One such topic is...Longaberger Baskets. This Longaberger Basket Webring has 73 websites to roam.
Weird Sightings
Purdue University The net can yield zany information. Take this site..."Zanesville Storm Data 1936-1945." No data exists prior to 1936, none for after 1945. However if you need to know how much it snowed on March 11, 1938 (1 inch), then this is the place.
Karaoke in Zanesville Is there Karaoke in Zanesville? No...but there is a Web site for it, just in case.
Carren's Ohio Eating Carren lives in Ohio, grew up in Zanesville and writes that "if anyone tells you to go to the middle of the bridge...trust 'em." Her list of fave Ohio eateries can be found on this Australian site.
Z-Files Another Australian page, "riggers.org," documenting the strange and bizarre, ran an article about a UFO sighting in Zanesville.
WW Food Tec Local company, Ballas Egg Products, is listed on this German site as "an important supplier of food ingredients and additives."
Best Search Results!
Third place goes to WHIZ-TV for their daily news section. Attention Times Recorder!!!!
"We shoot up books and nobody shampoos!" Second place goes to that WNCI-FM anti-Appalachian, rurally-phobic tune, Livin' in Zanesville of a few years ago. It may take this MP3 a few minutes to download, but it's well worth it.
First place First place goes to the Zanesville-Muskingum County
Chamber of Commerce Site (see above...it is a fine site). One *minor* problem, however... The "Ohio Living Government" link, fellas, is www.logs.org. and most decidely not the www.bgs.org that you have listed.
