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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.
The new courthouse built between 1885 and 1888 was designed by noted Ohio (and later New York) architect, Joseph W. Yost, [2] who also designed the similar Miami County Courthouse built at the same time in Troy as well as six other Ohio courthouses. The three-floor Second Empire building hosts many county functions. It contains three courtrooms ...
A victim of serial killer Larry Ralston. Grigsby is believed to have been abducted while hitchhiking in Clifton, Ohio on May 4, 1976. Her skeletal remains were discovered in woodland in Clermont County six months later. Grigsby's murderer is known to have become acquainted with her through drinking at a tavern frequented by both in the year ...
The shaded township is Township 17, Range 8 west of the Third Meridian. Starting at each intersection of a meridian and a baseline and working west (also working east of the First Meridian and the Coast Meridian [ 9 ] ), nearly square townships were surveyed, whose north–south and east–west sides are about 6 miles (9.7 km) in length.
Leelanau County: 089: Suttons Bay Township: 1840: From part of Mackinac County. Schoolcraft pseudo-Native American name: 23,019: 2,532 sq mi (6,558 km 2) Lenawee County: 091: Adrian: 1822: From part of Monroe County. A Schoolcraft pseudo-Native American name for man, from either the Delaware leno or lenno or the Shawnee lenawai: 97,520: 761 sq ...
Another nationally prominent Ohio Republican, former U.S. President James A. Garfield, was born in Cuyahoga County's Orange Township (today the Cleveland suburb of Moreland Hills). His resting place is the James A. Garfield Memorial in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery. [290] Today Cleveland is a major stronghold for the Democratic Party in Ohio.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Columbian crossing the Potomac River from Maryland to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1949. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first steam-operated common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. [1]
The Hetch Hetchy Valley began as a V-shaped river canyon cut out by the ancestral Tuolumne River. About one million years ago, the extensive Sherwin glaciation widened, deepened and straightened river valleys along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, including Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley, and Kings Canyon farther to the south. [12]