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Portsmouth (City and countyseat of Scioto)

a city and countyseat of Scioto co., O.; at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio rivers, on the Ohio canal, and on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Norfolk and Western, and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads; 114 miles S. E. of Cincinnati.

It is the center and shipping port of a large mining and agricultural region.

Here are a public library, United States • PORTSMOUTH government building, Old Ladies' Home, etc. The industrial plants include rolling mills, iron and steel works, shoe factories, lumber mills, planing mills , flour mills, foundries, fire fire-brick kilns, paper box factories, wheel works, and veneer works. Pop. (1910) 23,481; (1920) 33,011.