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In 1931, Portsmouth, Ohio, located at the confluence of the Ohio and Scioto Rivers, erected
a 3-mile floodwall, a portion of which is shown here in a souvenir postcard. Portsmouth
residents felt they would be snug and dry when future floods came down the Ohio River.
Their town, they boasted, was now “flood-proof.” But that boast proved hollow in 1937.
