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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…

Black & white image of waterfall by canal lock

Black & white photo taken after the 1913 flood washed out the bridge over the Scioto River. This shows "the Point" where the bridge connected Scioto Street in Portsmouth to the west side.

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

Tinted image of the N & W railroad YMCA building at 2829 Gallia Street at the end of Norfolk Street, built in 1906 by the N & W for railroad employees sleeping quarters. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.

Black & white image of railroad tracks with trees

Green tinted image of N & W railroad bridge with curving tracks

Tinted image of the YMCA building at 2829 Gallia Street at the end of Norfolk Street, built in 1906 by the N & W for railroad employees sleeping quarters. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.

Sepia photo of President William Howard Taft speaking from the back of a train car at the McDermott, Ohio railroad station.

Colored image of the front of the N. & W. station. The tracks ran behind the station.
Built in 1931, the Norfolk & Western Railroad Station was located at Seventeenth (17th) and Findlay Streets. It was used for passenger trains until 1971 when they…

Green tinted image of tracks curving around hills

Sepia image of C. & O. railroad bridge over the Ohio River connecting Sciotoville, Ohio and Kentucky. Viewed from the hills of Sciotoville