Time Traveler Newsletter #2
Welcome to the second edition of The Time Traveler: Portsmouth Past and Present! Our goal is to bring Scioto County, Ohio’s past to life through engaging articles, archives and images that residents can be...
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Inaugural Local History Newsletter
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Time Traveler: Portsmouth Past and Present! Our goal is to bring Scioto County, Ohio’s past to life through engaging articles, archives and images that residents can be...
2018 Donations
October Linda Foster- framed Nov 10 & 11, 1918 Portsmouth Times front pages- donated by the family of Charles Hayward of Lyra, Ohio Mark Thoms- scans of New Boston Steel Mill Cheryl Semones Mandrackie-...
2017 Donations
December John Zellner & Mary Pelligrion – 14 books Bill Cullen (author)- “A History of Brewers in Portsmouth, Ohio” November Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh- bound issues of Portsmouth Times (1940s) Martha Fuller- 2 Rauch...
2016 Donations
December No donations. November No donations. October Marguerite & Virgil Ramsey estate donation- 12 boxes of research September Lori Heart- 1930 Scioto Census microfilm August John Bierley- 2 family charcoal sketches Anna Biggs- N...
Yearbook Collection
The library has a large collection of yearbooks from local schools. Over the past few months we have digitized many of them and are planning to digitize the rest over the coming months. (Some...
View Our New Digital Collection
All images and texts have been moved to our new online digital collection. Thousands of new items have already been added, and more are being added every week! Click here to view it now.
Written Histories
The Local History Department has put together a collection of interesting stories about Scioto County. Subjects include early baseball, the brick industry, early railroad history and much more. View our collection of stories.
View Our Postcard Collection
Over 400 high-resolution postcards are available for viewing on our new digital archive website. More postcards are being added as we get them. View them here.
MyHeritage
MyHeritage Library Edition was founded in 2006 to provide simple and affordable access to more than 4.2 billion names in family history record collections worldwide, including: Over 158 million digitized images, including US and...