Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is the plant for the Excelsior Shoe Company. The factory was built in 1913. The July 16, 1935 Portsmouth Times announced that Williams Manufacturing Company had purchased the Excelsior Shoe Company building at Gallia Street and Campbell Avenue for $75,000.00. This was another step in the liquidation of the Excelsior Shoe Company.
In 1902, Mr. Irving Drew purchased the Star Shoe Company, changed its name to The Irving Drew Company and became its president.--from History of Scioto County published in 1903 by Nelson Evans.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: Black and white photo of the Plaque For the Theodore Roosevelt Game Preserve, dedicated in December of 1922; Pictured: Animals in the preserve- a deer and a turkey
Scanned unnumbered page from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing black & white Plat of Alexandria; an announcement of a sale of "One Hundred Valuable Lots" attributed to Francis Cleveland and dated September 10th, 1833; and a clipping that reads "Burt, Hall & Co. successors to Sanford, Varner & Co."
Sepia toned photo image of the Sixth Street Methodist Church building after 1910, when pool and billiards are listed at the location in the City directory. The Elk Lodge # 154 moved here from Second (2nd) Street in about 1916. This building, which had been a Methodist church at the corner of Sixth (6th) and Chillicothe Streets, was razed for the construction of the Portsmouth's third Masonic Temple building in 1928.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 366. Play House; Sixth (6th) Street Church; Bigelow Church; Spence Chapel; Allan Chapel (1844); Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lloyd Sr.; John Brown; J.J. Harper; T.M. Lynn; Congregation (1864)
White ceramic plate with brown print and a sepia-toned like picture of Pleasant Green Baptist Church. Rev. C.J. Mitchell was Pastor of the church in the 1970's.
Black and white photo image of Pleasant Green Church, built in 1923.
Located on Waller Street and the southwest corner of 15th (Fifteenth) Street.
Architects: Devoss and Donaldson
Contractor: R. L. Hopkins.
Trimmed with McDermott Blue Stone, furnished by Taylor Stone Company.
