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“The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
Hidden away in plain sight, like the operations of the Underground Railroad itself, one finds Robert Dafford's mural honoring the heroic men and women who fled their enslavement in the southern…

Dr. Chaboudy and the Origins of the Portsmouth Flood Wall Murals

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
Visit the Scioto County Welcome Center and view Robert Dafford's large canvas portrait of Ava and Louis Chaboudy. Dr. Louis Chaboudy is remembered as "the person who originated the idea of having…

Robert Dafford & the Portsmouth Floodwall Murals

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
The City of Portsmouth, located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, has a history of public murals, from those painted in the 1930s by Clarence Carter in the lobby of the Post Office on…

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This work is licensed by Andrew Feight, Ph.D. under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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