Explore the history depicted in Portsmouth’s famous floodwall murals. This tour covers some 2,000 years of history at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, from the ancient Adena and Hopewell to the workers at Williams Shoe factory in downtown Portsmouth. Explore in more detail some of the history depicted in Robert Dafford’s epic Portsmouth Floodwall Murals. The history of human settlement at the Mouth of the Scioto has always been shaped by the rise and fall of flood waters. Over…

Explore the history of the Beneh Abraham Jewish congregation of Portsmouth, Ohio, what is recognized as the third oldest Jewish community in Ohio. Learn how Beneh Abraham was formed in the late 1850s and discover its contributions to the development of the City of Portsmouth. This tour visits explores the Jewish community's history through visiting the locations of the congregation's historic places of worship, along with the Hebrew Section of Greenlawn Cemetery. Complete the tour in person or…

With the City of Portsmouth as your gateway, explore two-thousand years of human and natural history in the Shawnee State Forest Region of Scioto and Adams counties. With its misty hollows, forested ridges, and rolling hills and its spring wildflowers and dramatic fall colors, the region has become known as Ohio’s Little Smokies. Its history stretches from the time of prehistoric Native Americans who built the Portsmouth Earthworks Complex over two-thousand years ago to more recent historical…

Covering the years 1730 through the War of 1812, this tour explores the history of Native American efforts to defend their homeland, first, from the encroachments of the French and English colonial empires, and, second, from those of the new American Republic. This is the story of the conquest of the Scioto Valley and the larger region of the Trans-Appalachian West, what is sometimes called the "First West." From Celeron’s Expedition in 1749 to Tecumseh in the War of 1812, the Shawnee and…

Explore Portsmouth, Ohio's sports history by visiting the birthplace of the NFL Detroit Lions and the baseball diamond where future Major League Baseball Hall of Famers once competed. Learn about Simon Labold, a local businessman and philanthropist, whose 1925 donation of lands in the city's East End paved the way for the development of a youth and professional athletic complex that hosted some of the nation's greatest football and baseball players. Visit the site where Jim Thorpe led the…