Black and white photo image of the church surrounded by trees. This building was purchased by Miss Flora Belle Johnson in 1907. (Portsmouth Times, July 20, 1907) Located on the northwest corner of Third (3rd) and Bond Streets, it had previously been Christ Episcopal Church as listed in the Portsmouth City Directories 1899 through 1905. On the reverse side is a political advertisement: "Don't fail to vote for J.J. Brushart for assessor of real property Tuesday Nov. 2." Mr. Brushart was elected assessor in the election of 1909.
Color photo image of Gothic style church at 25th Street and Grandview Avenue. It was built in 1956 of native sandstone from McDermott. It was later known as the First Apostolic Church.
Colored image of the church at the southeast corner of Franklin Avenue and Logan Street. The building was constructed in 1917, and in 2001 the congregation merged with three others to form Cornerstone United Methodist Church.
Colorized photo image of Washington Street showing the German Methodist Church, Bigelow Methodist Church at the left on the northwest corner of Fifth Street, and the German Evangelical Church.
Colored photo image of forest land near Bear Creek in Morgan Township, the location of Girl Scout Camp Molly Lauman. A few years before her death in 1933, Mary Elizabeth Dever Lauman (Molly) donated about 100 acres for a girls' camp site.
Black and white photo image of tree house in Timmonds Park, a park developed by Samuel Timmonds, who was a member of the board for the Biggs House, a popular Portsmouth hotel. The headline in Portsmouth Times May 11, 1897: "The New Park. Sam Timmonds is Making a Little Paradise Out of It. A Charmingly Beautiful Resort Within Easy Reach of Our Citizens." He added a lake in a December 13, 1897 Times article: "It is now one of the finest skating parks in the country, finished last week and the first good freeze will make fine skating. A dam will be built higher and a summer resort made out of it."
Colorized image of a child and a sign promoting Portsmouth industries and services. The scene shown on the sign is West Second (2nd) Street in the early 1900's.
Black and white photo of the Soldiers' Monument in Soldiers Circle in Greenlawn Cemetery. In 1862 the Ladies Aid Society purchased the Civil War Union Soldier Monument dedicated on May 30, 1869. More than 2300 combat veterans, including 670 from the Civil War, are buried in Greenlawn.
