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Ebenezer Zane (October 7, 1747 – November 19, 1811) was an American pioneer, soldier, politician, road builder and land speculator. Born in the Colony of Virginia (possibly near what became Moorefield , West Virginia ), Zane established a settlement near Fort Henry which became Wheeling (also in present-day West Virginia), on the Ohio River .
Ebenezer Zane elected to remain in his fortified house along with a few family members, friends, and two slaves, while his brother Silas took command of the fort. Silas had fewer than 20 men to defend the fort, while roughly forty women and children sheltered inside. Silas's and Ebenezer's teenage sister, Betty, was among them. [1]
Ebenezer Zane and John Caldwell began the fort, which was completed with the help of Captain William Crawford, Colonel Angus McDonald and 400 militia and regulars from Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania). A letter preserved in the Pennsylvania Archives shows that Connolly told Crawford "to proceed to Zanesburg and complete the fort."
Ebenezer Zane received approval from Congress in May 1797 to cut a trail from Wheeling, in what was then Virginia, to Limestone, Kentucky. Recounting Ebenezer Zane's path 225 years later Skip to ...
Ebenezer Zane, the namesake of the Trace commemorated on stone trail marker at National Road Museum in Norwich, Ohio Map of Zane's Trace along with canals and national roads in Ohio, 1923 Zane's Trace is a frontier road constructed under the direction of Col. Ebenezer Zane through the Northwest Territory of the United States, in what is now the ...
The congress approved the Act of May 17, 1796, [3] which said “…there shall be granted to Ebenezer Zane three tracts of land, not exceeding one mile square each, one on the Muskingum River, one on the Hockhocking river, and one on the north bank of the Sciota river, and in such situations as shall best promote the utility of a road to be opened by him on the most eligible route between ...
1769 – Wheeling founded by Ebenezer Zane. [1]1774 – Fort Fincastle built. [2]1777 – September: Siege of Fort Henry "by a large force of Indians." [3]1782 – September: Attempted siege on fort by "about 40 British regular soldiers and about 250 Indians."
News of Ebenezer Zane's settlement near present-day Wheeling and the prospect of cheap and fertile land drew new settlers from as far away as New England. They would sometimes purchase enslaved people in Maryland and northern Virginia on their way to the Kanawha and Ohio River valleys.