Colorized image of the Highland School building on Hutchins Street across from Mound Park, before the addition in 1907. In 1956 it was razed after the new Highland School was built on the playground area.
Colorized image of the Wilson School which was built in 1927 on Campbell Avenue between Sixth (6th) & Seventh (7th) Streets. It was the first elementary school to have a gymnasium. Closed in 2006, it was razed in 2007.
Colorized image of the Union Street school building at the northwest corner of Fourth (4th) & Union Streets. It was completed in 1877 and remodeled in 1910. On January 8, 1929 the school was destroyed by fire, thought to be intentionally set. The U S Grant School, built the next year, replaced the Union Street School.
Colorized Image of the Steel Mill in New Boston Along the Ohio River. The mill was known as Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909 to 1920 and Wheeling Steel Corporation from 1920 to 1946. For four years after 1946 the name was Portsmouth Steel Corporation.
colorized photo image of Blake Block located at Gallia and Lawson. Photo shows Flood Drugs at 595 (2109-2111) Gallia and Shoemaker Hardware at 581 Gallia. (before address changed by city.) About 1900 a well-known butcher named Thomas B. Blake purchased the property and developed five store rooms in the block facing Gallia Street at the corner of Lawson.
Sepia color photo of the school building, located at the corner of West and Scioto Streets in Lucasville. Branch Rickey went to this school. In the 1920's modern brick schools replaced this wooden building.
Black and white photo image of the Little Red School House. The building was built before the Civil War east of the site of the railroad Y.M.C.A. Eventually it was abandoned and moved to Eighth & Kendall. The building located there was razed shortly after 1905 to allow for the expansion of the N & W Railroad.
