Colorized image of the steel plant in New Boston. Levi D.York built the steel mill in New Boston after his Portsmouth mill burned in 1898. It was known as the Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902-1909 and the Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909-1920.
Black & white photo taken from hill looking south across flooded New Boston homes, the steel mill office near center of the picture, and the flooded Ohio River in the far distance.
