Colorized photo image of Millbrook Lake. Levi York began developing Millbrook Park in 1899. The park covered 85 acres and was greatly damaged in the 1913 flood. It was totally dismantled by 1935.
Black and white image with tinted blue sky. This building at Second (2nd) and Court Streets was identified in 1898 in The Portsmouth Blade Industrial Edition as the Elks Building. In the 1903 Portsmouth City Directory it was known as the Elk Block and housed the Portsmouth Banking Company. In the 1916 directory Elks were meeting at Chillicothe & Sixth (6th) Streets and this building at 546 Second (2nd) Street was called "Eagle's Hall." In the mid 1940's the Eagles address listing changed to 950 Gallia Street.
Black & White photo of family on lawn with trees. Hermsdorf was a four acre lot owned by Herman Herms, located on the north side of Greenlawn Cemetery on Kinneys Lane.
Colorized photo image of the Y.M.C.A. at the corner of Gallia and Norfolk Streets. It was built by the N & W Railroad for railroad employees' overnight sleeping rooms. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.
Sepia tone photo image of the rutted dirt road along side a waterway on the way north toward Crichton's Inn near Rushtown. The Inn was owned and operated by William Crichton, a native of Scotland and mill worker in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The Inn was located on a hill on the west side of Route 104 near the N & W Railway passenger station in Rushtown. The Inn closed in 1919.
Black and white photo image of the Driving Park in Portsmouth which was located on the Basham farm, owned by Thomas J. Basham near the Burgess Steel Mill in New Boston in the early 1900's. The Driving Park was created in 1902 and hosted motorcycle and horse races.
Black and white drawn image of the Turley Building at the northeast corner of Chillicothe and Second (2nd) Streets. Built by Leslie Turley in 1905, the First National Bank was located there in 1906. The Checker Store was there from 1952 until 1973. It was razed for the expansion of Shawnee State University in 1992.
Black and white photo image of the children's home built in 1876 on Grant Street property that now is part of Mound Park. It was closed in 1921 when Hillcrest Children's Home opened in Wheelersburg.
Colored photo image of the Millbrook Park Base Ball Field with the New Boston steel mill and the Ohio River in the background. Levi York began developing the 85 acre park in 1899. Millbrook was greatly damaged by the flood, and was totally dismantled by 1935.
