Portsmouth

Portsmouth was the boyhood home of motion picture and television cowboy star Roy Rogers, who was born in Cincinnati in 1911 but lived here most of his first 17 years, and of baseball great Branch Rickey, who broke the major league baseball color barrier in 1947 when he signed Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Both men are depicted in the 2,000-foot-long Portsmouth Floodwall Murals along Front Street on the Ohio River; the 50-plus scenes chronicle more than 2,000 years of Portsmouth and Scioto County history.

Shawnee State Park, which occupies former Shawnee hunting grounds, lies west; phone (740) 858-6621.

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