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Color tinted image of passengers in Inter-State T. & S. Co carriage, with horse and driver on rural road.

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Color tinted image of W. F. Nesbet steamboat. Some references mention a steamer named the "W.F. Nisbet" which ran on the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers in the 1890's.

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Color tinted image of the Davis school building at the corner of Gallia & Waller Streets. It had been the home of George Davis before being used as a school from 1902 to 1910. It was razed in 1912 for the construction of the new PHS.

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Black and white image of unknown three story building surrounded by trees on Third (3rd) Street

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Sepia image of the second court house in Scioto County. Built in 1836 at Court and Sixth (6th) Streets, it was razed in 1927 after the dedication of the new court house.

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Color tinted image of church building located at 415 Washington Street since 1858. Bigelow was named after Russell H. Bigelow, 1793-1835. He was a Methodist circuit rider, missionary to Indians, and chaplain of Ohio Penitentiary. As of 1984, the…

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Sepia photo of home. Note on back: "Ben Scidel House, Sec 8 Bloom Twp near Pinkerman"

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Color drawing of the new Scioto Memorial Hospital grounds on Twenty-Seventh (27th) Street as if viewed from the air, it was opened in 1968. In the 1980's Southern Hills, Mercy, and Scioto Memorial merged as Southern Ohio Medical Center.

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Colored image of Children's Home building built in 1876 on Grant Street property that now is part of Mound Park. It closed in 1921 when Hillcrest Children's home opened in Wheelersburg.

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Handcolored image of school building

In Millbrook Postcard
Colored, mostly green, image of two ladies by lake in Millbrook Park. Levi York began developing Millbrook Park in 1899. It covered over 85 acres. It was totally dismantled by 1935.

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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.
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