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Colored image of Hillcrest Children's Home. The Hillcrest county children's home in Wheelersburg was open from 1921 until 1971.

Colored image of the bridge over the Scioto River on the west side of Portsmouth. This bridge replaced the previous one that washed away in the 1913 flood. This, the sixth (6th) bridge, was opened in 1915 and was used until 1997 when it was closed…

Colored image of Scioto Fire Star Brick factory in Sciotoville, Ohio

Black and white photo image of the church building with neighborhood homes and automobile.

Colored image of a Drygoods business

Colored image of Sixth (6th) Street School, located at the end of Sixth (6th) Street behind the present Post Office. The former home of Judge William Salter, it was converted into a school in 1868.

Black & white photo of railway passenger station in Millbrook Park. Levi York began developing Millbrook Park in 1899. It covered over 85 acres. Greatly damaged by the flood, it was totally dismantled by 1935.

Black and White Photo image of the Steel Mill and surrounding community in New Boston. The mill was known as the Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902 to 1909 and the Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909 to 1920. From 1920 to 1946 it was the Wheeling…

Colorized image of the steamer sidewheeler along the river. The Sunshine was built in Brownsville, PA and completed at Wheeling, WV in 1892. She ran the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.

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 the bridge. A notation at the top: "The Grants operated a tannery on the site of the Kentucky approach to the bridge." The bridge, also known as the Fullerton Bridge, opened in 1927 as a toll bridge and became toll free in 1974. …

Colored photo of the United Brethren Church Building at the corner of Seventh (7th) & Gay Streets.