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The Peebles Paving Brick Company's office was located at 317-320 Masonic Temple. The plant, started in 1902, was in New Boston at Gallia and Norfolk Streets.

In 1902, Mr. Irving Drew purchased the Star Shoe Company, changed its name to The Irving Drew Company and became its president.--from History of Scioto County published in 1903 by Nelson Evans.

The Portsmouth Machine and Casting Company Machine Shop, location unknown.
Their Foundry at 401 Third (3rd) Street is now PCL Building Supply.
Portsmouth City Water Works was on Mill Street on the Ohio River.

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.

The Portsmouth Shoe Company was organized in March 1897 at 127 West Front Street. The president was F. V. Knauss.

After the Burgess Steel mill burned at Third (3rd) and Madison Streets in Portsmouth in 1898, Levi York re-built in Yorktown (New Boston). The new plant was sold to Crucible Steel of America in 1900. Portsmouth Steel Company bought it in 1902. It…

The Portsmouth Stove Company was located at 14th (Fourteenth) and Chillicothe Streets. It was started in 1889.
Harsha Flour Mills was located on 8th (Eighth) Street east of Campbell Avenue.
The mill burned in 1954, and then was used by…

Scanned page of facts about Portsmouth in 1900 as well as population statistics of 1820-1970.

A map showing Portsmouth, Sciotoville, and New Boston as they were in 1977

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…

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…

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…