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Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page giving details of the beginning of a cafe on Front Street, began by a party of Creoles in 1875. Cafe on Front Street; Eugene Hacquard's Gun Shop; festivities; parties

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page.
Pictured are black and white photos of Charles Kinney and Dr. J. R. McClure.
Bottom half of page shows newspaper advertisements for the Strimatter Grain & Milling Company Flour "At All Groceries" and the…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is typed page detailing information about some of the entertainment put on by Anna Dickenson. She didn't stay long in Portsmouth. Shakespeare; Muggs Landing; Hearts of Oak; Monte Cristo; Dane of…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is black and white photos of E. E. Ewing and Mrs. Mary E. Draper.
Elmore Ellis Ewing was born in Gallia County in 1840. After serving in the 91st O. V. I. from 1862 to 1864, he moved to Scioto County.…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page showing black and white photos of F. B. Kehoe Flour, Feed, Lime, and Salt By the River
V. R. Row was born in 1859 in Portsmouth and was a well known lawyer.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: The Ohio State Agricultural and Historical Society typed letter to Henry A. Lorberg

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Typed page about the Adams Express Company Horses Afflicted with Epozootic (Epizootic) Disease in the 1870's; Ad for Harper & Searl, Attorneys at Law located on Second (2nd) Street. Dan McFarland; Lew Newton;…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a program for the sixth annual reunion of the Scioto Valley Odd Fellows Association. The reunion was to take place in Tracy Park on September 1, 1902.

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page giving details about "Father" McDowell. He served as superintendent of Bigelow Sunday School when the church was on Second (2nd) Street. General Jackson; Lady Washington; James Hannahs;…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is two black and white photos of Charles Burt, prominent Portsmouth citizen and the house of Dr. Hemstead (Hempstead). Dr. Hempstead was a prominent physician in Portsmouth in the early 1800's, known…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page detailing routes on Dan Rice's land that circus companies traveled on. Afterward, the land was sold to Yankee Robinson.
Trus Lynn bought white horses that were in high demand for…

Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Shown is a black and white group photo of employees of the Ohio Stove Company. The company was incorporated in Portsmouth in 1872. It was organized as a foundry to cast iron stove parts and assemble its line of…