We were fortunate enough to attend the presentation “The Scioto County, Ohio, Infirmary Mounded Feature in Regional and Temporal (3000 BC to AD 400) Context by Dr. Jonathan E. “Jeb” Bowen. The presentation was sponsored by the Arc of Appalachia and presented at the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center in Portsmouth, Ohio, on November …
“Very few persons know that there was a jail escapade from Sheriff Pursell last Sunday night week. The incident, very suspiciously too, has been suppressed as far as it could be, none of the city papers thus far having published it. It was a very strange escapade, for it was a woman who made the …
“Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce Aviation committee discussed plans Friday afternoon to enlarge Raven Rock airport runway and to seek civil aeronautics board approval of the port as a class 2 airport.” “B. Leroy Compton, chairman of the committee, reported that a 3500 foot runway will be required to land commercial planes. The airport site has …
On October 22, 2023, we had the opportunity to attempt to locate the small Dold Cemetery. Described as a small cemetery with two unmarked graves in Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
“The following is a list of persons drafted in Scioto County, September 27th, 1864, including the 100 per cent additional:”
“A sad accident occurred on last Friday morning, the 19th inst., at the coal landing on Munn’s Run. Thomas Pease, a well-known farmer of that neighborhood, had gone on that morning to the landing for a load of coal, and took with him his little seven-year-old son, Charlie. He had loaded up his cart and …
Today’s gallery of images from the past comes as donation from life-long Portsmouth resident Mary Martha Questel, who captured these photographs in and around the Chillicothe Street area of Portsmouth in 1995.
This 1912 photo postcard from Elizabeth to Miss Mary McManaway of Lucasville reads as follows: “Dear Mary: This is our Picnic Party taken July 20 isn’t it a dandy ?! This is all the kids there are in Henley. I wish Clell was on it. We did not get them until Sunday. Please don’t be …
The other day I purchased this 8×10″ black and white photograph from a local antique store, mostly because it had some names on the back and because the restaurant, the American Restaurant, is a place I had been too myself. This mid-century photograph was taken by Hoke’s Studio, Homer W. Adkins, Manager, which was located …