Isaac Bonser, 1767 - 1849, was an early pioneer of Scioto County. He settled along the Little Scioto in 1795 and later built the first water powered mill at Bonser's Run near present Sciotoville.
Colorized image of the steel plant in New Boston. Levi D.York built the steel mill in New Boston after his Portsmouth mill burned in 1898. It was known as the Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902-1909 and the Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909-1920.
Colorized image of the steamer sidewheeler along the river. The Sunshine was built in Brownsville, PA and completed at Wheeling, WV in 1892. She ran the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.