The Zanesville Cement plant otherwise known as the Zanesville & Western Railroad extended throughout Ohio and Columbus connecting our coal and other resources to their respective power plants and factories. The Cement Plant was chartered on June 4th, 1901 and construction began around the beginning of June 1902 shortly after the finish of the Columbus & Eastern Railroad. The fall of The Zanesville Cement Plant started with The Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company acquiring 45,100, about $4,510,000 of central stocks and bonds in The Zanesville & Western Railway Company. With the all bonds of The Zanesville & Western Railway Company now split between The Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company and The Hocking Valley Railway Company, The Zanesville & Western Railway Company Chairman and Senior Officers now had no control of the railroad property or business The Hocking Valley Railway Company’s Chairman decided that the Zanesville Cement Plant was bigger experience than profit so the building became old and unused and years and years of neglect the building decayed and eroded to how we see it today.