Rush Township near Duck Run in Scioto County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Boyhood Home of Roy Rogers
"The King of the Cowboys"
Photographed by Ken Carolus, April 9, 2025
1. Boyhood Home of Roy Rogers Marker
One of the most influential icons of American popular culture in the mid-20th century, Roy Rogers was born Leonard Franklin Sly on November 5, 1911 in Cincinnati. He moved to this farm at age 8 from Portsmouth and lived here with his family until the Great Depression. He went to California in 1930, working as a truck driver, fruit picker, and country musician before signing a movie contract with Republic Pictures in 1937. Immediately popular, the clean-cut singing cowboy appeared in more than 100 western films, often making six or more movies a year during the 1940s. With his nearly equally-famous horse Trigger and his wife and partner Dale Evans - "the Queen of the West" - he subsequently starred in more than 100 television episodes of the family-oriented Roy Rogers Show from 1951 to 1957. A perennial hero and "good guy," Rogers personified the mythical American cowboy who always fought fairly and lived by a strong moral code. He died in California on July 6, 1998.
Erected 2000 by Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, The Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Collectors Association, and The Ohio Historical Society. (Marker Number 4-73.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music
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Location. 38° 52.742′ N, 83° 4.177′ W. Marker is near Duck Run, Ohio, in Scioto County. It is in Rush Township. It is at the intersection of Roy Rogers Road (Local Road 138) and Sly Road (Local Road 517), on the left when traveling north on Roy Rogers Road. Marker is about 750 feet north of intersection with Mowhawk Drive (County Road 524), about four miles west of Lucasville. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Lucasville OH 45648, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Southern Ohio Hill Country. It is also in the American Midwest, in the Ohio River Valley, in Appalachia, and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Ted Strickland Ohio's 68th Governor Boyhood Home (approx. 0.4 miles away); Boyhood Home of Wesley Branch Rickey (approx. 2.6 miles away); Lock 48 (approx. 3.6 miles away); Ohio & Erie Canal (approx. 3.7 miles away); Lucasville Cemetery / Captain John Lucas Founder of Lucasville (approx.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 9, 2009
2. Boyhood Home of Roy Rogers and Markers
Also see . . . Roy Rogers. Official website homepage (Submitted on December 11, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 9, 2009
3. Boyhood Home of Roy Rogers and Markers
Roy Rogers Road on right.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 9, 2009
4. Boyhood Home of Roy Rogers Handmade Marker
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 9, 2009
5. Boyhood Home of Roy Rogers
Photographed by Unknown, undated
6. Photo of Roy Rogers and Trigger on Marker
Photographed by Tom Bosse, June 14, 2025
7. Boyhood Home of Roy Rogers Marker (Replica) as seen in an antique store in Las Vegas, NV.
Credits. This page was last revised on January 5, 2026. It was originally submitted on December 11, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 12,296 times since then and 292 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on April 29, 2025, by Ken Carolus of Peebles, Ohio. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on December 11, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 7. submitted on October 26, 2025, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee.
