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National Road & Zane Grey Museum, Norwich, OH

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National Road & Zane Grey Museum

A small Norwich museum covering the historic National Road, the western novelist Zane Grey, and regional pottery.

8850 E. Pike, Norwich, Ohio 43767 · Norwich, OH

About National Road & Zane Grey Museum

The museum in Norwich, Ohio preserves the story of the National Road and how it shaped the country's growth. It also honors Zane Grey, a Zanesville-born author known for western novels, and shows examples of pottery made in the Zanesville area. Visitors move through a large diorama of the road, a display of a pioneer wagon, a section on Grey's life and writing, and a pottery room that ends the tour.

  • #history
  • #National Road
  • #Zane Grey
  • #pottery
  • #Ohio

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