Colorized photo image of country stetting with cows in pasture. The Beltline was a Portsmouth streetcar track franchised in 1906. It was also known as the Sixth (6th)/Seventeenth (17th) Street Belt Line. Plans were to complete the belt line around the city. A Portsmouth map from the early 1900's shows Samuel B. Timmonds owned property on Kinneys Lane at the east side of Greenlawn Cemetery.
Lightly tinted photo image of the children's home built in 1876 on Grant Street property that now is part of Mound Park. It closed in 1921 when Hillcrest Children's Home opened in Wheelersburg.
Color tinted image of steamboat with Portsmouth in back. The Buckeye State was built in 1878 at Freedom, PA, for the Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line. She was captained by Wash Kerr.
Colored image of a few people on large rock formations in the hills above South Portsmouth (Springville) across the Ohio River in Greenup County, Kentucky.
Lightly tinted image of steamboat in river, both banks visible. The Greyhound was built in 1901 at Ironton. She ran in the Portsmouth-Proctorville trade and was considered quite fast. She was used as a wharfboat at Ironton where she was lost in ice December 31, 1917.
Colorized image of the Hotel St. Louis, which was originally built as a Welsh church located at 734 Third (3rd) Street. By 1906, the building had been converted into a hotel with 25 rooms.
