Tinted image of the N & W railroad YMCA building at 2829 Gallia Street at the end of Norfolk Street, built in 1906 by the N & W for railroad employees sleeping quarters. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.
Black & white oval-shaped image of the steamboat Bonanza, a side wheeler, she was built at Mack Yard in Cincinnati in 1885. For several years, she left Cincinnati at noon on one day, arrived in Portsmouth and left Portsmouth at noon on the next day to return to Cincinnati.
Tinted image of children in pool and on playground equipment in York Park outside of the old flood wall. York Park, named for Levi D. York, was located on the Ohio River bank between Chillicothe Street and Washington Street in the early 1900's.
Sepia tone image of steel mill with homes in foreground. The mill in New Boston was built by Levi D. York after his Burgess Mill in Portsmouth was destroyed by fire in 1898. It was known as the Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902 to 1909. From 1909 to 1920 it was the Whitaker-Glessner Company.
