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Colored photo image of children and playground equipment at York Park near the river. York Park, named for Levi D. York, was outside the old flood wall between Chillicothe Street and Washington Street in the early 1900's.

Tinted image of Market Street businesses and the Washington Hotel at the corner of Second (2nd) and Market Streets. Built in 1901, Washington House became part of the Riverview Retirement Center development serving the elderly and handicapped in…

Tinted image of the entrance gates, trees, driveway

Colored drawing of riverboats and Portsmouth viewed from Kentucky side. The Ashland was built at Cincinnati in 1842 and dismantled in 1847. The Scioto was built in Cincinnati in 1846 for Captain James Davis of Portsmouth.

Tinted image of small buildings and trees along unpaved lanes at Waller and 16th (Sixteenth) Streets.

Black & white image of waterfall by canal lock

Tinted image of country road between rocky cliff and trees

Tinted image of Market Street businesses surrounding the tree-lined central space

Tinted image of the Ohio River with wooded hills in the distance

Colored image of a hillside farm house and buildings. Believed to be the residence of Charles Brombacher at 1617 Mabert Avenue

Colored image of canal, towpath, bridge, and mill in West Portsmouth. The grist mill was built by Lemuel Moss in 1834. David Gibson built a distillery nearby in 1857. George Davis bought and operated both businesses from about 1860 until shortly…

Tinted image of ice skaters, from the homes in the background this is most likely Mill Brook Lake in New Boston.