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  • Collection: Historic Postcards

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Colored image of Union Mills. The grist mill was built by Lemuel Moss in 1834. David Gibson built a distillery nearby in 1857. George Davis bought and operated both businesses until shortly before his death in 1894.

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Colored image of Scioto Fire Star Brick factory in Sciotoville, Ohio

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Colored image of Manly M.E. Church

1937 Portsmouth Flood Postcard
Black & white photo of homes surrounded by flood water

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Colored image of RR yard, Ohio River, and Kentucky hills.

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Colored image of the steamboat Greenwood at the wharf at the end of Market Street. 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…

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Black & white photo of Portsmouth Hotel and other business buildings in flood

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Sepia photo of the Washington Hotel surrounded by flood water. Built in 1901 at the corner of Second (2nd) and Market Streets, the Washington charged $3.00 per day in 1903 (Evans history of Scioto County.) From 1939 to 1956 it was known as the…

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Sepia photo of Bragdon Department store surrounded by flood water

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Sepia photo of Kobacker's Department store surrounded by flood waters
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