Black and white image of Portsmouth High School. The building at Sixth (6th) and Findlay Streets was used as the High School and also conducted some Elementary classes as well in 1868.
Black and white photo image of the Portsmouth High School. This building was built in 1912 to replace the old Davis High School in he same location: the corner of Waller and Gallia Streets. It was closed in 2006 and razed in 2007.
Black and white photo image of a group of unknown children with instruments in what looks like a school band at the McKinley School. On the back: McKinley Orchestra. Alberta Elkuns
Colorized image of the Fourth (4th) Street School. The ten room school building was built in 1838 on the northwest corner of Fourth (4th) and Court Streets. The founder of Portsmouth, Henry Massie, donated the lots for the school to be built. This was the beginning of public education in Portsmouth. In 1930, the Fourth Street School was replaced by the George D. Scudder School.
Black and white photo image of the steamboat the Scioto docking at Portsmouth. The boat carried mail along the Ohio River from Portsmouth to Huntington.
Colorized image of the steamboat the Bonanza on the Ohio River near Portsmouth. The Bonanza was a side wheeler builtin in Madison, Indiana in 1876. The boilers and other machine parts were made in Portsmouth.
Black and white photo image of the steamboat the Greenwood on the Ohio River near Portsmouth. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip, October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank when she hit a snag at the mouth of the Scioto River. She was raised and repaired and ran the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trades until 1925 when she collided with the Chris Greene and sank.
Black and white photo image of the Queen City landing at Portsmouth. This sternwheeler was built in 1897 in Cincinnati for the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line. She served the line until 1933 when she became a wharf boat at Pittsburgh, where she sank in 1940.
