Colorized image of the Excelsior Shoe Company located at the southwest corner of Gallia Street and Campbell Avenue. The company was started in 1889, in 1893 it moved to Third (3rd) and Gay Streets and in 1913 this factory was built at Gallia and Campbell. Williams Manufacturing purchased the building in 1935.
Black and white photo image of Pleasant Green Baptist Church located at the southeast corner of Findlay and Tenth (10th) Streets. The Church was founded in 1865 by six people who formerly worshiped at Allen Chapel.
Black and white photo image of the North Moreland School. The building was built in 1925 at the corner of Scherer Hollow and Minford Roads. The school closed in 1982 and was purchased by the Apostolic Temple of Christ in February of 1984.
Black and white photo image of the Davis High School located at the corner of Gallia & Waller Streets. It had been the home of George Davis before being used as a school from 1902 to 1910. It was razed in 1912 for the construction of the new PHS.
Tinted image of the LaRoy Theatre located at 848 Gallia Street The name LaRoy came from the owners' names, Simon Labold and Dan W. Conroy. It opened in 1926 to a crowd of thousands, according to a Portsmouth Times article. The building was razed in 1974 to widen Gay Street.
Various black and white images of Portsmouth Ohio.
The Railroad Depot located at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets
A Rural Scene
Gallia Square located where Gallia Street meets Chillicothe Street, now known as the Esplanade.
Soldiers' Circle in Greenlawn Cemetery
Millbrook Park Pavillion
The Court House located on Court and Sixth (6th) Streets
Washington Hotel located at the corner of Second (2nd) and Market Streets
Green tinted photo image of horse pulling carriage along a dirt road between trees and waterway toward Rushtown. Crichton's Inn was a summer retreat a few hundred yards from where the Norfolk & Western Railway tracks cross Route 104. It was on a hill on the west side of the highway and furnished an excellent view of the Scioto River valley. The Inn was owned and operated by William Crichton, a native of Scotland and a steel mill worker in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It closed in 1919.
colorized photo image of red brick Castle Hall, Magnolia Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at the corner of Washington and Fourth (4th) Streets, building has a church-like steeple
