Black and white photo image of the plant from parking lot, silver border. The steel mill at New Boston had several name changes through the years. It was Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909 to 1920, Wheeling Steel Corporation from 1920 to 1946, and Portsmouth Steel Corporation from 1946 to 1950.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 97. Party of Squirrel Shooters (1825); Wm. Daily; Colonel Jno. McDonald; McDonald's Sketches; The Daily; Market Street; Front Street ;Watson House; United States Hotel; Eggnogg; Prayer Meeting (1874); Dutch Mike's Saloon; Huston Stone Front; Police Gazette; James Lodwick; Price of Corn (1814- 1820); Henry Sheeley; First Tailor (1805); Wild Turkey Trap (1805); Third (3rd) Street
Black and white photograph of the Gateway Clipper. The first U.S. Grant Bridge was closed for repair August 31, 1978. The ferry was the only transportation to Kentucky across the Ohio River at Portsmouth, Ohio. The center section of the bridge was lowered onto barges while new cables were installed in 1979.
This passenger pigeon was shot in an orchard on Offnere Street in Portsmouth, Ohio by Arthur Bannon around 1882. He presented it to his mother, a taxidermist, who wanted a specimen of the nearly extinct bird for her collection. The male passenger pigeon is dark brown with a copper-colored breast and stands 7 inches (17.78 cm.) high and is 15 inches (38.1 cm) long from its head to its tailfeathers. Passenger pigeons were once the most numerous species of bird in North America and provided a seemingly endless supply of meat, fat, and feathers to early settlers. Contemporary observers described migrating flocks of passenger pigeons as blackening the skies due to their large numbers. Later in the century, commercial hunting of passenger pigeons became popular. The growth of the railroads promoted pigeon hunting, since the trains could transport pigeon meat to major markets with no danger of spoilage. By the late 1880s, the decline in the passenger pigeon population became irreversible. It is now extinct.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pat Corbett; Unidentified Man; Mrs. John Ratliff; Joseph Stockley; Pat Kendrick; Reading War Bulletins at Wurster's Drug Store
