Colored photo of Garfield School building which was built in 1915 at the corner of Gallia Street & Mabert Road. It was enlarged in 1919 and a gymnasium was added in 1957. It closed in 1975 and in 1976 the Scioto County Commissioners bought it. The Vern Riffe School is in the building now.
Colorized image of the new Portsmouth High School located at the corner of Waller and Gallia Streets. The building was built to replace the in the Davis High School, formerly in the same location. The Portsmouth High School was erected in 1912, closed in 2006, and razed in 2007.
Worn hardback green leather diary of Robert Alexander Bryan with strap enclosing gold image on flap with lettering "Diary 1866". It has lined pages and handwritten entries inside. Robert was born in 1839 in Adams County, then relocated to Scioto County and became an engineer and surveyor. He was the Scioto County Engineer from 1866-1869, 1880-1885, and then again in 1900, the County Surveyor in 1872, and the City Civil Engineer from 1880-1893. Robert is credited for many engineering projects in Scioto County including bridging the Scioto River at its mouth, overseeing the construction of the Scioto Valley Railway for 16 miles from Portsmouth, creating the 1889 map that hangs at the court house and library, and organizing the first street paving in Portsmouth in 1891. He died in 1913.
Aged, off-white paper with black calligraphy with typewritten information on land transfer from Andrew Laubner to James Barker in Brush Creek, Scioto Co. Signed by both parties and notarized in Clarke County, Nebraska. Other names: William Kendall, Benj. Rankin, Henry Thomas, Peter Young, Elizabeth Young, and Alexander Oliver.
Handcolored photo image of Soldiers' Monument in Tracy Park located at Ninth (9th) and Chillicothe Streets. The 40-foot monument was dedicated in 1879 in honor of local soldiers killed in the early days of the Civil War. The first Portsmouth man killed in the war Sergeant John Barnes of Company G. He is portrayed on the top. A photograph of Sergeant Barnes was sent to the sculptor, and those who knew Barnes prior to the war said the granite likeness was very good.
