Tinted image of the Excelsior shoe factory built in 1913. The July 16, 1935 Portsmouth Times announced that Williams Manufacturing Company had purchased the Excelsior Shoe Company building at Gallia Street and Campbell Avenue for $75,000.00. This was another step in the liquidation of the Excelsior Shoe Company.
Color tinted image of W. F. Nesbet steamboat. Some references mention a steamer named the "W.F. Nisbet" which ran on the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers in the 1890's.
colorized photo image of red brick Castle Hall, Magnolia Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at the corner of Washington and Fourth (4th) Streets, building has a church-like steeple
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.
Various black and white images of Portsmouth Ohio.
The Railroad Depot located at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets
A Rural Scene
Gallia Square located where Gallia Street meets Chillicothe Street, now known as the Esplanade.
Soldiers' Circle in Greenlawn Cemetery
Millbrook Park Pavillion
The Court House located on Court and Sixth (6th) Streets
Washington Hotel located at the corner of Second (2nd) and Market Streets
Tinted image of the LaRoy Theatre located at 848 Gallia Street The name LaRoy came from the owners' names, Simon Labold and Dan W. Conroy. It opened in 1926 to a crowd of thousands, according to a Portsmouth Times article. The building was razed in 1974 to widen Gay Street.
