Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool, Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 409 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: Summer 2017

This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”

Portsmouth residents enjoy "fun in the sun with everyone" at the Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool.

This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”

Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Portsmouth, Ohio’s only city-owned, public pool was built to memorialize the drowning death of fourteen-year-old resident Eugene McKinley, the son of George and Ruth McKinley, who lived at 1212-E…