Lower Shawneetown
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Lower Shawneetown, also known as Shannoah or Sonnontio, was an 18th-century Shawnee village located within the Lower Shawneetown Archeological District, near South Portsmouth in Greenup County, Kentuc
Bronze historical marker near site
Conference between French and Native American leaders around 1750 by Émile Louis Vernier.
Christopher Gist, surveyor who visited Lower Shawneetown in 1751. Engraving from ‘’Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly,’’ 1857.
18-century woodcut showing Native Americans with European trade goods that they received in exchange for furs.
Portsmouth, Ohio
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Portsmouth is a city in Scioto County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located in southern Ohio 41 miles south of Chillicothe, it lies on the north bank of the Ohio River, across from Kentuc
Lower Shawneetown
…firm diplomatic relations with Lower Shawneetown as they did (to some extent) at Logstown. In 1992 muralist Robert Dafford was commissioned to create a series of murals depicting the history of Portsmouth, Ohio, on the floodwall, built in 1937 to protect the city from periodic floods after the Ohio River flood of 1937…
Downtown Portsmouth looking north from U.S. Grant Bridge
The steamer Bonanza in Portsmouth during the 1884 flood
Aerial view of downtown Portsmouth
A painting of the confluence of the Ohio and Scioto rivers, showing the dissected plateau terrain and the Carl D. Perkins Bridge.