About
Scioto Historical is an educational mobile app and website that puts the history of Portsmouth, Ohio, and the surrounding Appalachian region at your fingertips. Learn about American and local history through map-based, interactive, multimedia presentations and experience professionally curated virtual historical tours on your laptop, tablet, or on a screen in your classroom. With its free mobile app, Scioto Historical can guide you to historical locations and augment any walking or driving tour.
First launched in June, 2013, Scioto Historical is edited by Andrew Feight, Ph.D., Professor of American History at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. As a digital humanities and public history project, Scioto Historical seeks to transform how American and local history is studied, taught, and preserved in the digital age.
Focused on the counties of Scioto, Adams, Pike, and Lawrence in southern Ohio, the project’s field of study also includes parts of Northeastern Kentucky (Lewis and Greenup counties).
In partnership with area scholars, students, artists, and local cultural organizations, the project facilitates undergraduate digital research, while preserving the region’s history and advancing the practice of digital arts and humanities in southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky.
Scioto Historical is brought to you, in part, thanks to the support of Shawnee State University’s Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Clark Memorial Library, and Office of the Provost. Additional funds, which helped launch and support the project, were generously donated by the Scioto Foundation, the Ohio History Service Corps (AmeriCorps), and the Shawnee State University Development Foundation.
Special thanks go to Michael Barnhart for additional audio and video design, Liz Blevins for her assistance with graphic design and public relations, Herb Roe for his series of Scioto Historical oil paintings, and Janet Feight for her editorial assistance.
Submissions
As a work-in-progress, new content and revisions are always under development and in production. Scioto Historical encourages submissions and we are always seeking rare historic images and reminiscences, as well as content partners and sponsors to add more stories and tours to the app and website. Email our editor, Prof. Andrew Feight (andrewfeight@gmail.com) to see how you can help!
Scioto Historical is available for free in the iOS App Store and the Google Play Android App Market.
Scioto Historical is powered by Curatescape, a mobile framework for the Omeka archival content management system.
Scioto Historical is a free app that puts the history of Ohio’s Scioto Valley at your fingertips.
Developed by Shawnee State University’s Digital History Lab, Scioto Historical lets you explore the people, places, and moments that have shaped the history of Ohio’s Scioto Valley.
With a growing list of interpretive stories, each point on the interactive GPS-enabled map includes historical information about the location, along with historic images from archival collections and historical publications.
You can find more information about the history of the Scioto Valley by visiting the project website at sciotohistorical.org.
Tours:
Frontier Conflict in the Scioto Valley
8 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
Saving Shawnee Forest
13 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
The CCC in Ohio’s Little Smokies
11 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
Portsmouth’s Floodwall Murals
12 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
Settling the Scioto Valley
10 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
Along the Scenic Scioto Heritage Trail
12 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad
7 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
Ackerman’s Bicentennial Portsmouth
12 Locations ~ Curated by Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.