Greene County, Ohio and Greenup County Kentucky, Part 2: Greenup County, Kentucky

 For the second part of this trip, I stayed in Wheelersburg, Ohio, just upstream from Portsmouth, about 14 miles downstream and across the Ohio River from Greenup, the city that has the courthouse from the county of the same name. The next county upriver is Boyd, which is where Ashland is located, so much of Greenup County is a suburb of the Huntington-Ashland Metropolitan Area, a "tri-state" area including parts of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. Greenup County is 98% White and voted 72% for Donald Trump in 2020. The total population of the county is about 35,400.

There are twenty places on the National Register of Historic Places in the county. Wednesday afternoon, May 17. I found the courthouse and a few other places in the small town of Greenup, along the Ohio River, before heading back to the motel and dinner. After dinner, I headed up to Portsmouth, about fifteen miles north of the hotel, and looked at the murals along the flood wall, which dates from 1937, built after a devastating flood on the Ohio River. The mural extends nearly a half-mile, covers the history of Portsmouth, and was painted by a Louisiana artist from 1993-2002. 

By late afternoon Thursday, I thought I had found seventeen of the twenty places on the National Register, but two of them had been torn down. My picture of one of them is now the pic on Wikipedia. Three of the places were Native burial grounds or former settlements. They were unsigned, so I may have gone past them. 

Here are the pics:

                                                      Greenup County Courthouse, Greenup

                                                   Front Street Historic District, Greenup

                                             Methodist Episcopal Church South, Greenup, 1845

Former Greenup Masonic Lodge, 1867. I met the owner who is building a restaurant on the first floor

                                                     Flood Wall Mural, Portsmouth, Ohio

                                                       Flood Wall Mural, Portsmouth

                                            Bridge over the Ohio River near Portsmouth, Ohio

                                                     Another Ohio River Bridge

                                                 Kouns-Hoffman House, Greenup, about 1850

                                                 Warnock House, Greenup, about 1880

                                                         West Main Street District, Greenup

                                               Octagon House, South Greenup District

                                                     Church in South Greenup District

                                                       McKee House, Greenup, 1880

               Lunch at Golden Corral near Ashland, KY: Fried chicken, fried green tomatoes, Mac and cheese

                                                        Wurtland Union Church, 1921

      McConnell House, Wurtland, 1833, a law office and slave quarters are included in the listing

                                                           Oldtown Covered Bridge

               Jesse Stuart House, 1939, near Greenup. Stuart was a poet and novelist, poet laureate of            Kentucky, and lived from 1906-1984

                                                Worthington House, about 1840,near Greenup

After that heavy-duty lunch at Golden Corral and a nap in the late afternoon, I visited a supermarket  near my hotel and got a "healthy" microwaveable dinner, which I ate in the room. Unfortunately, there was a Dairy Queen across the parking lot from the motel, so I had a chocolate sundae later.

I drove home Friday on U.S. 23 through Ashland, Kentucky  to I-64 through Charleston, and then on I-79 to Morgantown. I was home in time to make dinner and go out to services at Tree of Life. 

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