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  • Collection: Industrial Portsmouth, Ohio. The All American City 1880-1980

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The Wait-Fuller Furniture Company was located at Eighth (8th) and Boundry Streets.
The Portsmouth Brewing Company was on Second (2nd) Street in between Madison and Massie Streets. Later, the building housed the Brewery Arcade.

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The Portsmouth Pressed Brick Company was located at Tenth (10th) and Court Streets.
The Portsmouth Paving Brick Company was on the west side of Chillicothe Street at the corner of Seventeenth (17th) Street.

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The York Portland Cement Company was on the east side of Chillicothe Pike, 12 North on Kinney's Lane
The Buster Novelty Company was located on the east side of Market Street near Second (2nd) Street.

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The first Scioto County Court House (not shown) was built in 1817 on Market Street. The second, shown lower left on this page, was constructed in 1836 at Sixth (6th) and Court Streets. In about 1926 the third Court House, shown at the top, was…

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The Sixth (6th) Street Methodist Church was located at Sixth and Chillicothe Streets. The Government Building was the old stone Post Office facing Gallia Square (Esplanade). To the right stood the Portsmouth City Building (Kricker Building). The…

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Spring Lane Distilling Company was located at 161-163 West Front Street, just outside the city limits at the junction of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, & Virginia Railroad and the N & W Railroad. The plant was built in 1888; the president was M.…

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The Imperial Rolling Mills was located at 158-160 West Fourth (4th) Street. Headed by A. M. Frick, it produced flour, fine white corn meal, grain, and feed.

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The Daehler Building was located at 82-86 Second (2nd) Street. The F. C. Daehler Co. sold furniture, carpet, Queensware, and was also an undertaker.
W. J. Friel's Garage was at 14-16 West Fifth (5th) Street where he advertised automobiles,…

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The Masonic Temple building built in 1906 at the corner of Chillicothe and Fourth (4th) Streets housed Bragdon's Dry Goods Store on the first two floors. In December 1925 the building partially burned, but was rebuilt to only four floors to be…

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The Pure Milk Company was located on Eighth (8th) Street.
The Stockham Coal, Produce, and Cold Storage Company, at the corner of Chillicothe and Eleventh (11th) Streets, advertised "ice, coal, produce, and feeds." After the streets were realigned…

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The Samuel Horchow Company manufactured clothing at 40-44 Gallia
Street. It would become the home of the Samuel Levi Furniture Company, and was later made into apartments .
The Scott Knitting Company was at 101-103 Gallia Street. It…

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The Kricker Building was built by George Kricker in 1893 on Gallia Street facing the Esplanade or Government Square. It held a business college, grocery, bank, jewler, Portsmouth city offices and many other businesses and offices. It was also…
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