Hockingport, OH

Hockingport is a census-designated place in southeastern Troy Township, Athens County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 205 residents. Hockingport is located at the intersection of State Routes 124 and 144. Hockingport lies on the Ohio River, located below Little Hocking and above Reedsville. Hockingport's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Ohio setting. The local scoop is how Hockingport's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Hockingport was the site of a pre-revolutionary military camp and fortification built in October 1774 by Virginia militiamen under Lord Dunmore at the confluence of the Hocking and Ohio Rivers called Fort Gower. The fort served as the base camp for the militia during Dunmore's War.