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Portsmouth Floodwall Murals

Portsmouth Floodwall Murals
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429 Front Street
Portsmouth Ohio 45662

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740-353-7647
lat: 38.7310017 long: -83.0040585

The Portsmouth Floodwall Murals cover over 2000 feet of the city’s floodwall. Subjects include:

  • The Portsmouth Earthworks—a large mound complex constructed by the Ohio Hopewell culture from 100 BCE to 500 CE.
  • Lower Shawneetown—a nearby 18th century Shawnee village.
  • The 1749 “Lead Plate Expedition” led by Pierre Joseph CĂ©loron de Blainville.
  • Tecumseh—a Shawnee leader who directed a large confederacy
  • Henry Massie— a founder and surveyor who laid out plat in 1803.
  • Battery L—a Civil War unit from Portsmouth, Battery that fought at Gettysburg
  • Jim Thorpe—Native American athlete and player/coach for the Portsmouth Shoesteels
  • Portsmouth Spartans—NFL team from 1929 to 1933 that become the Detroit Lions.
  • Branch Rickey—the signer of Jackie Robinson to Major League Baseball.
  • Clarence Holbrook Carter, an American Regionalist and surrealist painter.
  • Ohio River flood of 1937.
  • Stagecoaches, riverboats, railroads and the Ohio and Erie Canal, which had its terminus just outside Portsmouth. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth,_Ohio)

For a completely immersive audio and visual tour of the Portsmouth Floodwall Murals download the Portsmouth Murals App, which can be found on the App Store and Google Play.

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