Ebenezer

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Ebenezer was born in Moorefield, West Virginia back in 1747 to William and Nancy. During the American Revolutionary War Ebenezer defended Fort Henry against tow Native American attacks in 1777. If you watch the History Channel about the Revolution his sister Elizabeth was featured as the young girl who during the second siege in September 1782 when during the battle she left the fort to retrieve gunpowder for a building during a hail of gunfire.

He served as a colonel in the Virginia colonial militia. He was a western delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention and voted in favor of ratification of the United States Constitution. So you may be asking yourself who am I writing about today, why it is Ebenezer Zane. After the war he received some funds from the United States Congress to build a road through the Northwest Territory. In exchange for this work Congress granted Ebenezer tracts of land in the areas where the road intersected the Muskingum, Hocking and Scioto rivers.

The road he built was good for travel by foot or horseback (no wagons) for the State of Ohio. But did you also know the rest of the story? Why just set back and learn as it was the only major road in Ohio until the war of 1812. The road he built was known as Zane’s Trace, the city of Zanesville, Ohio is named in his honor. He died in 1811.