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unusual facts about Lucasville-Minford Road



Gene Tenace

Tenace was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics from Valley High School in Lucasville, Ohio and played for the Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Lucasville, Ohio

Branch Rickey, baseball agent that signed Jackie Robinson; also credited with forming the farm leagues for Major League Baseball

Mule Town, Ohio

Located at the intersection of State Route 335, Lucasville-Minford Road and Bennett Road, it lies just north of the unincorporated community of Minford, 7 miles (11½ km) east of the census-designated place of Lucasville, and 14 miles (23 km) northeast of the city of Portsmouth, the county seat of Scioto County.

Ohio Penitentiary

Conditions in the prison have been described as "primitive," and the facility was eventually replaced by the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, a maximum security facility in Lucasville.

Ohio State Route 823

The locations of the interchanges are: U.S. Route 52 between New Boston and Wheelersburg, State Route 140 near the Portsmouth city limit, Airport Road adjacent to the Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport / Access to Ohio State Route 335 just south of Minford, at Lucasville-Minford Road / County Route 28 near Rases Mountain Drive in Minford, and at U.S. 23 just north of Lucasville.


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