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Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. [5] Located in southern Ohio 41 miles (66 km) south of Chillicothe , it lies on the north bank of the Ohio River , across from Kentucky and just east of the mouth of the Scioto River .
Fratton Park has been the only home football ground in Portsmouth F.C.'s entire history. Fratton Park was built in 1899 by Alfred H. Bone, a Portsmouth-based architect, surveyor and a founding director of the football club. The site of Fratton Park was formerly a market garden potato field in a Portsea Island farming village named Milton. By ...
Milton (Milton → City of Portsmouth → Hampshire → South East England → England → United Kingdom) Camera location 50° 47′ 45.3″ N, 1° 03′ 54″ W
Portsmouth: 26: Odd Fellows Hall: Odd Fellows Hall: December 8, 1987 : 500-506 Court St. Portsmouth: 27: Ohio and Erie Canal Southern Descent Historic District: April 1, 2019 : Multiple; Old River Rd. at Slab Run
The name Fratton was once Froddington, a Saxon name which originally meant "Frodda's Farm" or "Frodda's village". A pub on Fratton Road is still named "The Froddington Arms". [3] There is a commemorative plaque by the petrol station near Fratton Asda, marking where a bomb shelter was hit by a bomb on 10 January 1941, killing 80 people. [4]
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway. East Southsea was the name of two terminus railway stations of the 1.25 mile [1] Southsea Railway, which linked the Southsea seaside resort with the Portsmouth Direct Line at Fratton railway station. [2]
U.S. Route 52 (US 52) runs east–west across the southern part of the state of Ohio along the Ohio River, passing through or very near the cities and towns of Cincinnati, Portsmouth, and Ironton. For its first 19 miles (31 km) or so, the highway runs concurrently with Interstate 74 (I-74) and I-75 before it winds through downtown Cincinnati ...
In the early 21st century, the service industry and healthcare, such as the Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC), is the county's largest employer. Scioto County is home to Ohio's newest state university, Shawnee State University, which enrolls between 3,300 and 4,000 students and grants associate, baccalaureate and master's degrees. Much of the ...