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Saturday starts with a splash, featuring the Annual River Days Parade at 11 a.m. and the River Days Pageant contestant float contest between 1 and 3:30. Toy Story will be the Saturday outdoor ...
Feb. 25—This year's festival set for Aug. 30-Sept. 1 PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth Junior Madison Bowling was sashed as Miss Portsmouth River Days during a selection meeting on Feb. 9. Bowling said ...
Lower Shawneetown was downstream from the much smaller Upper Shawneetown, established about 1751 at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Kanawha River, near present-day Point Pleasant, West Virginia and known to the Shawnees as Chinoudaista or Chinodahichetha. [16] [17] [18]
Scioto County is best known for Portsmouth's "River Days" activities, which include a parade, a pageant associated with local high schools, boat races on the Ohio River (in the past), musical performances and a carnival. River Days occurs on Labor Day (the first Monday of September) weekend. Activities begin on Thursday evening and the parade ...
The face on Indian Head Rock. Taken 2008. The name Indian Head Rock comes from a carving on the bottom of the boulder with the features of a human face. It has been theorized that the face was carved by a Native American artist as a petroglyph, a boatman as a river gauge, or was carved by John Book from Portsmouth, Ohio who later fought in the Battle of Shiloh. [1]
John Nation helps paddle the canoe during the Ohio River Way Challenge, Thursday, June 6, 2024, on the Ohio River in Cincinnati. A team of people on canoes are making a 250-mile trip down the Ohio ...
The Biggs site (15Gp8), also known as the Portsmouth Earthworks Group D, is an Adena culture archaeological site located near South Shore in Greenup County, Kentucky.Biggs was originally a concentric circular embankment and ditch surrounding a central conical burial mound with a causeway crossing the ring and ditch.
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. The population was 18,252 at the 2020 census.