Colored image of Chillicothe Street showing City Opera House at the corner of Fourth Street. It was built in 1895 and damaged by fire in 1914, but was rebuilt and known for many years as the Kresge Store.
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.
Black & white photo of people looking away from camera "Patriotic Parade, So Webster O." written on back. Likely this scene is in 1918 after the Sedition Act was passed. A local farmer, son of German parents, had to apologize, kiss the American flag, pledge support for the U.S. cause, and lead a patriotic parade. It is not known what he had said or done. Simmering Market is at the left and the old brickyard in in the background.
