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OHIO 1937
The village of Proctorville in Lawrence County, Ohio, was incorporated in 1878 and was
named for storekeeper Jacob Proctor, who did a thriving business with the Ohio's riverboats.
The village was totally submerged by the 1937 flood. A Proctorville road sign was swept
away and deposited on the doorstep of a house in Portsmouth, 50 miles downstream. Today
Proctorville is primarily a bedroom community for Huntington, West Virginia, which lies just
across the river. (Courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)
