black & white photo image scanned from book, Pictorial Portsmouth, page 23
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1837. In 1846, the church bought land, and a small frame building was erected on that lot on Fifth (5th)…
black & white portrait photo image in book, Pictorial Portsmouth, page 14
Abraham W. Buskirk worked in the grocery business until 1878, when he started a stove and tinware house in Portsmouth.