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The group stays active all year long developing opportunities for downtown Portsmouth and the surrounding region. River Days has been scheduled for August 30 through September 1 and will feature ...
A team of people on canoes are making a 250-mile trip down the Ohio River that started in Portsmouth and ending in Louisville. ... The paddlers are setting up camp in a new river town each day of ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
U.S. Grant Bridge under construction on June 21, 2005 Aerial view of the bridge and surroundings. Contracts for the new U.S. Grant Bridge were given in the spring of 2001. Construction was expected to be complete in June 2004, but work fell behind schedule due to inclement weather, unusual flooding of the Ohio River, and the partial sinking of a floating construction barge which carried one of ...
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In 1929, the canalization project on the Ohio River was finished. The project produced 51 wooden wicket dams and 600 foot by 110 foot lock chambers along the length of the river. During the 1940s, a shift from steam propelled to diesel powered towboats allowed for tows longer than the 600 foot locks on the river.