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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 ...
Dawn Magyar was abducted while she was grocery shopping in Owosso, Michigan in Shiawassee County on January 27, 1973, and her body was discovered in a wooded area in Saginaw County, Michigan on March 4, 1973. [145] The case was resolved 28 years after her body was found when a DNA match was made of her killer. [146] Murdered 36 days 1973
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.
Cleveland [a] is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. [10] Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–United States maritime border and lies approximately 60 mi (97 km) west of Pennsylvania.
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]
Area [9] Map Alcona County: 001: Harrisville: 1840 (boundaries declared) 1869 (organized) From unorganized territory; named Negwegon County until 1843: Schoolcraft pseudo-Native American name: 10,489: 1,791 sq mi (4,639 km 2) Alger County: 003: Munising: 1885: From part of Schoolcraft County: Russell A. Alger, (1836-1907): Governor and national ...
Grant County is the most southwestern county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,938. [2] Its county seat is Lancaster and its largest city is Platteville. [3] The county is named after the Grant River, in turn named after a fur trader who lived in the area when Wisconsin was a territory. [4]