Portsmouth (Ohio)
Scioto County
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Portsmouth is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Scioto County. The population was 20,909 inhabitants at the 2000 census.
Geography
The municipality is located in the very south of the Ohio on the north bank of the Ohio River and east of the Scioto River.
History
After the original settlement called Alexandria had been flooded several times, was founded in 1803 east of it to safer country today Portsmouth. Since the construction of a flood wall after a flood in 1937, the city has been spared from major flooding.
With the completion of the Ohio - Erie Canal, which einmündete here in Ohio, and the favorable rail links the city quickly became a center of trade. Beginning of the 20th century, Portsmouth still 50,000 inhabitants, but could not keep the city with the industrial development, in particular the end of the steel industry on the ground in the 1980s, resulting in the mass exodus, so that the population has since then more than halved.
Education and health
Situated on the Ohio is also the Shawnee State University, Ohio's fastest-growing public university. The schools in the Portsmouth City School District are currently being developed in order to provide more space for sport and leisure can.
The Southern Ohio Medical Center is connected with the University and one of the most advanced medical centers of Ohio. Together with the SOMC Cancer Center Portsmouth is in medical research and care, a center of the region.
Famous people
- Kathleen Battle, opera singer
- Thomas Henry Carter, politicians
- Liza Johnson, film director and screenwriter
- Barbara Robinson, writer
- Roy Rogers, the " Singing Cowboy ," country singer and actor
- Bill Sali, politicians
- Stuff Smith, Jazz Violinist