The Portsmouth Times Building was sold in 2016. Staff ceased working from the location. Production of the newspaper had moved to Gallipolis, Ohio, several years earlier. The Portsmouth Daily Times had operated out of the 637 Sixth (6th) Street location since 1955.
The Ohio Stove Company was incorporated in 1872, in Portsmouth, Ohio. The company was organized as a foundry to cast iron stove parts and assemble its line of coal heating and cooking stoves. In 1942 the company expanded into commercial gray iron casting to produce parts for the air conditioning, transportation and transmission industries. By 1953 the conversion from stove production to commercial casting was complete. All stove patterns were sold. The Ohio Stove Company changed its name to OSCO Industries, Inc., in 1972 on the company's 100th anniversary.
All Saints Episcopal Church is located at 610 Fourth (4th) Street, Portsmouth, Ohio.The church was organized on June 23, 1819. The first church building was completed in 1832. The present structure was built in 1850. The structure survived extensive fire damage in 1893 and water damage from the historic 1937 flood.
The U.S. Grant Bridge opened, April 30, 1927. Closed for nearly a year, September 1939-May 1940,for repair work including new floor and bridge cables. A grand reopening was held on May 10, 1940.
Born Leonard Franklin Slye on November 5, 1911 in Cincinnati, a son of Andrew Earlin and Mattie Womack Slye, Roy Rogers spent his formative years in Scioto County, Ohio. Originally from Portsmouth, Andrew brought his family back to Portsmouth on a house boat when Leonard was only one year old. Leonard attended Union Street School until his father purchased land in Rush Township on Duck Run Road. Leonard attended McDermott High School until his sophomore year when his family moved back to Cincinnati, where his father worked in a shoe factory. During 1930-31, Leonard moved to California and onto fame as one of America's cowboy heroes. Portsmouth's local hero is remembered through his many visits, a mural on Portsmouth's floodwall, a star on the floodwall signed by Roy, a downtown esplanade and a county road named for him. Roy's homestead still stands as a reminder of Portsmouth's own. These photos are used with permission from the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center.
