Black and white image of the fifth(5th) Second Street Scioto Bridge over the Scioto River at Portsmouth. The 1913 Flood completely washed away this bridge, but it was replaced in 1915 by the sixth(6th) bridge which was used until 1997.
Black and white photo image of the Portsmouth Solvey and Coke Company, Portsmouth, Ohio. The 1918 Portsmouth City Directory lists: The Portsmouth Solvay Coke company, M.K. Hitchcock, Traffic Manager, 42-43 First National Bank Building. On June 1, 1917, the Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Company was purchased by the Portsmouth Solvay Coke Company to supply the ovens at its new by-product coking plant at Portsmouth. The Freeburn mine in Pike County Kentucky furnished high-grade by-product coal to the coke ovens at Portsmouth. In 1921 the American Rolling Mill Company and the Whitaker-Glessner Company jointly acquired all the capital stock of the Portsmouth Solvay Company and changed the name to the Portsmouth By-Product Coke Company.
Colorized image of the Washington Hotel. The building was built in 1901 at the corner of Market and Second (2nd) Streets. In 1979 the Washington House became part of the Riverview Retirement Center development serving the elderly and handicapped.
Colorized image of people standing in an around a waterway beside a train track. A train is coming along the railroad tracks with Autumn colored leaves along the tracks
