Designated Fallout Shelter Location

Title

Designated Fallout Shelter Location

Subject

The Old Portsmouth High School Building

Description

The old Portsmouth High School was a designated "fallout shelter". A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War (1946-1991). Often large public buildings, with basement floors, were also designated as shelters.

Creator

Terry Stevenson II, photographer

Date

Before May 2007

Format

Digital image

Coverage

Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio

Rights

Scioto County Public Library