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  • Collection: 1968 Wheelersburg Tornado Collection

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scanned black & white photo image of Boll Farm Supply destruction after tornado.

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Black and white photo image

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Colorized photo image of the Bobst house and farm on Dogwood Ridge Road across from Pinehurst Avenue in Wheelersburg.

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Black and white photo image

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Black and white photo image

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Scan of an aged newspaper article about the remains of a destroyed house Pyles Addition during the Wheelersburg Tornado on Dogwood Ridge. Article also includes a photo of the destruction.

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Scan of black and white panorama photo of some of the damage after the tornado in Wheelersburg. Photo shows debris, destroyed homes, and the destruction of the landscape.

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Scan of a Portsmouth Daily Times newspaper article telling about Wheelersburg rebuilding itself one year after the tornado. Article includes photos of the destruction and then the rebuilding process.

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Scan of a newspaper article from the Columbus Dispatch with a map of Ohio with counties outlined in the center. Inside the counties are numbers denoting the number of tornadoes, deaths by tornadoes, and injuries by tornadoes for that county.

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Scan of a newspaper article from the Herald Advertiser about the rebuilding of Wheelersburg after the tornado of 1968.

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Colorized photo image of when the National Guard used bus for shelter one rainy night at Check Point of Lick Run and Dogwood Ridge in Wheelersburg after the tornado.
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