The Sixth (6th) Street Methodist Church was located at Sixth and Chillicothe Streets. The Government Building was the old stone Post Office facing Gallia Square (Esplanade). To the right stood the Portsmouth City Building (Kricker Building). The Coggswell Lion and Fountain are visible in this photo.
The first Scioto County Court House (not shown) was built in 1817 on Market Street. The second, shown lower left on this page, was constructed in 1836 at Sixth (6th) and Court Streets. In about 1926 the third Court House, shown at the top, was erected. The dates printed are not significant to any of the Court Houses.
The fourty-three room Hotel Grimes was built at 902 Second (2nd) Street by H S Grimes. It was razed in 1966 for the expansion of the Portsmouth Branch of Ohio University (Shawnee). In 1920 a tombstone was put up near the Roy Rogers Esplanade because people thought that Portsmouth would die economically as a result of prohibition.
The York Portland Cement Company was on the east side of Chillicothe Pike, 12 North on Kinney's Lane
The Buster Novelty Company was located on the east side of Market Street near Second (2nd) Street.
The Portsmouth Pressed Brick Company was located at Tenth (10th) and Court Streets.
The Portsmouth Paving Brick Company was on the west side of Chillicothe Street at the corner of Seventeenth (17th) Street.
The Wait-Fuller Furniture Company was located at Eighth (8th) and Boundry Streets.
The Portsmouth Brewing Company was on Second (2nd) Street in between Madison and Massie Streets. Later, the building housed the Brewery Arcade.
The Peebles Paving Brick Company's office was located at 317-320 Masonic Temple. The plant, started in 1902, was in New Boston at Gallia and Norfolk Streets.
The Scioto Fire Brick Company, incorporated in 1872 with John Peebles as president, was in Sciotoville a few miles up the Ohio River from Portsmouth. This mammoth 13 acre plant, between the river and the railroad, had an almost inexhaustible mine of raw material. It produced Fire Brick, Clay In-walls and Hearths for blast furnaces, tiles of all sizes, Arch, Key and Wedge, Circular and Split Brick from the very best Scioto Clay. --from the Portsmouth Blade Industrial Edition, 1898
The Portsmouth Fire Brick Company was actually located at the corner of Gallia and Campbell, the later site of Harbinson-Walker Refactories.
After the Burgess Steel Mill in Portsmouth burned in 1898, Levi York be-built his business in New Boston.The new plant was sold to Crucible Steel of America in 1900. It was named Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902 to 1909, and Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909 to 1920. It became Wheeling Steel Corporation until 1946, and later Detroit Steel.
The Burgess Steel and Iron Works was incorporated in 1872, and it was located on the river at end of Third (3rd) Street. This factory burned in 1898 and Levi York re-built in New Boston in 1898-1899.
The Standard Telephone Manufacturing Company was located at 1021-1025 Gallia Street. It was later changed to the Standard Supply Company and specialized in electrical supplies manufacturing.
After the Burgess Steel mill burned at Third (3rd) and Madison Streets in Portsmouth in 1898, Levi York re-built in Yorktown (New Boston). The new plant was sold to Crucible Steel of America in 1900. Portsmouth Steel Company bought it in 1902. It became Whitaker-Glessner from 1909 until 1920.
The Mitchell Manufacturing Company was located at Third (3rd) and Gay Streets. It started out making vending machines for shoe laces costing one nickel. They soon decided to produce the laces to fill the vending machines. And finally the focus was making bulk laces for the local shoe factories.
