Black & white photo of people looking away from camera "Patriotic Parade, So Webster O." written on back. Likely this scene is in 1918 after the Sedition Act was passed. A local farmer, son of German parents, had to apologize, kiss the American flag, pledge support for the U.S. cause, and lead a patriotic parade. It is not known what he had said or done. Simmering Market is at the left and the old brickyard in in the background.
Green tinted photo image of horse pulling carriage along a dirt road between trees and waterway toward Rushtown. Crichton's Inn was a summer retreat a few hundred yards from where the Norfolk & Western Railway tracks cross Route 104. It was on a hill on the west side of the highway and furnished an excellent view of the Scioto River valley. The Inn was owned and operated by William Crichton, a native of Scotland and a steel mill worker in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It closed in 1919.
Colored image of Chillicothe Street showing City Opera House at the corner of Fourth Street. It was built in 1895 and damaged by fire in 1914, but was rebuilt and known for many years as the Kresge Store.
Handcolored photo of YMCA built in 1906 at 2829 Gallia Street (at the end of Norfolk Street) by the N & W Railroad for railroad employees sleeping quarters. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.
Black & white photo of flood damage in York Park, date unknown, possibly the flood of 1913. York Park, named for Levi York, was located on the Ohio River bank on Front Street between Chillicothe Street and Washington Street in the early 1900's.
Colored image of baseball area of Millbrook Park, steel mill and river in distance. Levi York began developing Millbrook Park in 1899. It covered over 85 acres. Greatly damaged by the flood, it was totally dismantled by 1935.
