Editing Zanesfield, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[Image:Zanesfield-ohio-sloan-library.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Historic Sloan Library in Zanesfield]]
Zanesfield is named for Isaac Zane,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ | title=The Ohio Gazetteer, or, a Topographical Dictionary | publisher=Scott and Wright | date=1833 | access-date=December 12, 2013 | author=Kilbourn, John | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ/page/n543 507]}}</ref> who was born in 1753 in what was then Berkeley County, Virginia, and is now [[Hardy County, West Virginia]]. He was the youngest brother of [[Ebenezer Zane]], for whom [[Zanesville, Ohio]], is named.

In 1762 at the age of nine, Isaac was captured by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] of the [[Wyandot people|Wyandot]] tribe and adopted into the tribe.  He lived with them along the [[Sandusky River]] for seventeen years.  He married [[Myeerah]] (White Crane), daughter of Chief ''[[Tarhe]]''.  They had several children.

His Wyandot connections and bilingual abilities served Zane well.  He later served as a guide to the Commissioners of the [[Northwest Territory]] during their treaty conferences with the Native Americans. Zane purchased {{convert|1800|acre|km2}} from the federal government at the site of Zanesfield in about 1795.  In return for his service to the United States, in 1802, the [[United States Congress]] granted Isaac Zane three tracts totalling {{convert|1920|acre|km2}} in [[Champaign County, Ohio]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The Official Ohio Lands Book|last=Knepper |first=George W. |year=2002 |publisher=The Auditor of the State of Ohio |pages=52–53 |url=http://www.auditor.state.oh.us/Publications/General/OhioLandsBook.pdf#page=52}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Ohio Lands and Their Subdivisions|last=Peters|first=William E.|year=1918 |publisher=W.E. Peters|pages=336–339 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiApAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA336}}</ref> (see [[Zane's Tracts#Isaac Zane Tracts]]). In 1803, he was elected as one of the first trustees of Jefferson Township. Isaac Zane died in 1816, and was buried near Zanesfield.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Martzloff|first1=Clement L.|year=1905|title=Zane's Trace|journal=[[Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications]]|volume=13|pages=324 |url=http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0013324.html&StartPage=297&EndPage=331&volume=13&newtitle=Volume%2013%20Page%20297}}</ref>

The village was [[plat|laid out]] in 1819 by Alexander Long and [[Ebenezer Zane]].<ref>Perrin, W.H. and J.H. Battle.  ''History of Logan County and Ohio''.  [[Chicago]]: O.L. Baskin, 1880, 414.</ref>