Portsmouth's Boneyfiddle District
Explore two-hundred years of history in Portsmouth’s Boneyfiddle District, where the community’s oldest churches, residences, retail stores, and factories were…
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Innovation at the Sanford, Varner & Co. Buildinglocation_fillPortsmouth may be best remembered for its shoe and steel manufacturers, which dominated the city from the 1830…
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Spock Memorial Dog Parklocation_fillSpock Memorial Dog Park was officially opened August 9th, 2019. The park was named after Scioto County Sheriff… -
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Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theaterlocation_fillCapitalizing on Joe Louis's new won fame, Hollywood movie director Harry L. Fraser would cast Louis to star in… -
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Thomas Gaylord and the Beginning of Portsmouth's Iron Industrylocation_fillThe original “Portsmouth Iron Works” were constructed by Glover, Noel and Company in 1832 on the Ohio river fr… -
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Capt. William McClain's Underground Steamboatlocation_fillEliza Esham of Nicholas County, Kentucky claimed Joshua as her property and sued Capt. McClain, seeking damage… -
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How the Boneyfiddle Got Its Namelocation_fillRobert Dafford’s mural was dedicated on 27 May 1993, “with a large gathering of over 150 people. Robert Morton… -
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Julia Marlowe and Madame Brough's Saloon on Front Streetlocation_fillIndeed, just over ten years earlier, in October 1878, the Times reported "there was a terrible row at Madame B… -
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The Eclipse Livery and T.M. Lynn's "Dan Rice"location_fillWith its two large arched entryways facing Second Street, the Eclipse Livery Building (now the home of Wright'… -
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George Remus - 'King of the Bootleggers' - in the Boneyfiddlelocation_fillRemus completed the first two years of his sentence in the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. For the l… -
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B. Glockner on Market Streetlocation_fillThe B. Glockner Building at 206 Market Street illustrates the contribution of German immigrants to the ninetee… -
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James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendmentlocation_fillBorn near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Ashley moved with his parents and siblings to Portsmouth in the spri… -
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Kennedy & Ashton's Feed Storelocation_fillBuilt in 1852 by Milton Kennedy, Portsmouth's most outspoken abolitionist, the building first housed Kennedy's… -
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John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroadlocation_fillBorn in 1828 in Albemarle County, Virginia, John James Minor settled in Portsmouth, Ohio in the mid-1830s, not… -
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Portsmouth's First Presbyterian Church and the Antislavery Movement in Southern Ohiolocation_fillIn the decades leading up to the Civil War, the congregation now known as First Presbyterian of Portsmouth, Oh…
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