Colorized cartoon images of Dutch children with a banner with "McGaw" in black printing on the front. The community known as McGaw was in the southwest corner of Nile Township at the mouth of Upper Twin Creek. A post office was located at McGaw from 1893 until 1919 when the mail was forwarded to the Friendship post office.
Black and white photo of damaged Wallace Mill Bridge 3.5 miles east of Minford on Long Run, County road 222. Flooding in 1961 washed away one end of the bridge which had spanned Rocky Fork, a branch of the Little Scioto River.
Black and white photo of Wallace Mill Bridge 3.5 miles east of Minford on Long Run, County road 222. The bridge spanning Rocky Fork, a branch of the Little Scioto River, was destroyed by flooding in 1961.
Black and white photo of Wallace Mill Bridge 3.5 miles east of Minford on Long Run, County road 222. The bridge spanning Rocky Fork, a branch of the Little Scioto River, was destroyed by flooding in 1961.
Black and white photo image of "the Point" at the end of Second (2nd) Street in Portsmouth. Following two days of heavy rains, on March 28, 1913, a wall of water estimated at 15 feet high rushed down the already-swollen Scioto River destroying the Second Street Scioto River Bridge which previously crossed from "The Point" to the west side. A new bridge, the sixth bridge at this site, opened in 1915 and was in use until 1997.
Colorized photo image of the school building erected in 1878 at the corner of Fourth (4th) and Union Streets. It was remodeled in 1910. A fire destroyed the building in January 1929. The U.S. Grant School, built the following year, replaced the Union Street School.
