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Colored image of view from Gallia Street looking west toward Chillicothe Street. A part of the old stone Post Office on the north corner of Gallia and Chillicothe shows at the far right.

Black & white photo of men with musical instruments in formation

Colored image of Market Street businesses and trees in the square

Colored image of a Drygoods business

Colored image of Burt & Hall Building at the southeast corner of Chillicothe and Third (3rd) Streets. Opened in 1899 as a men's clothing store Burt, Hall, & Co., it held various offices and organizations before 1922 when Lewis Furniture moved in. …

Lightly tinted image of water, large boulders, trees on both sides

Tinted image of the steamboat in the river. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip, October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank when she hit a snag at the mouth of the Scioto River.…

Tinted image of street and trees

Colored image of a dirt road with trees and greenery on both sides

Black & white image of the Tacoma steamboat, built in 1883 at New Richmond, Ohio. She ran the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trades. She burned in 1922 at Cincinnati along with three other steamboats.

Tinted image of unpaved street with utility poles, trees, fences, homes

Tinted image of the Greyhound steamboat on the river. The Greyhound was built in 1901 at Ironton. She was considered quite fast as she ran the Portsmouth-Proctorville trade. She was lost in ice December 31, 1917 when she was used as a wharfboat at…