Ohio's Little Smokies
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 cou…
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Tremper Mound and Earthworkslocation_fillTremper Mound was constructed on the west terrace of the Scioto River, five miles north of its confluence with…
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Union Mills and Lock 50 of the Ohio & Erie Canallocation_fillThe Ohio and Erie Canal connected Portsmouth to Cleveland and the eastern markets via New York's more famous E… -
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Lower Shawnee Town and Céloron's Expedition of 1749location_fillBeginning in the late 1730s, the Shawnee Indians established one of their principal villages here. Some sixty… -
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Raven Rock Nature Preservelocation_fillFrom its height and location on a bend in the Ohio River, Raven Rock offers views of modern-day Portsmouth at … -
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Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creeklocation_fillTypical of Virginia Military District surveys, which were conducted with the old metes and bounds method (some… -
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James M. Ashley and the Underground Railroad in Friendship, Ohiolocation_fillMarked today as the intersection of US Highway 52 and Ohio State Route 125, Friendship is the southern gateway… -
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CCC Cabin Museum and the Shawnee State Park Nature Centerlocation_fillThe distinctive A-frame construction of the Nature Center dates to circa 1969, when it was built for a private… -
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One Hundred Years of Conservation in Shawnee State Parklocation_fillThe Theodore Roosevelt Preserve was dedicated at 3pm on December 5th, 1922, by Governor Harry L. Davis. It be… -
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Roosevelt Lake and the CCC Stone Memoriallocation_fillIn 1934, a segregated, all-black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) unit of enrollees, known as Company 1545, d… -
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Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo"location_fillThe headquarters for Roosevelt Game Preserve and "Zoo," established in 1922, ought to be considered Ohio's fir… -
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Picnic Point and Auto-tourism in Ohio's Little Smokieslocation_fillIn the mid-1930s the Ohio Division of Forestry, with the assistance of the Civilian Conservation Corps, built …
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