Colorized image of the old stone post office at the corner of Gallia Street and Chillicothe Streets. Across Gallia Street is the new First National Bank built in 1912.
Colorized photo image of the Indian (Head) Rock in the Ohio River. A note printed on the back: "To be seen only during extreme low water." Prominent citizens scratched names and initials on the rock. One image seems to be a smiling face. Some believed this was an ancient Indian hieroglyph.
Handcolored image of Union Mills. The grist mill was built by Lemuel Moss in 1834 and David Gibson built a distillery nearby in 1857. George Davis bought and operated both businesses from about 1860 until shortly before his death in 1894.
Colorized photo image of Millbrook Lake. Levi York began developing Millbrook Park in 1899. The park covered 85 acres and was greatly damaged in the 1913 flood. It was totally dismantled by 1935.
Black and white image with tinted blue sky. This building at Second (2nd) and Court Streets was identified in 1898 in The Portsmouth Blade Industrial Edition as the Elks Building. In the 1903 Portsmouth City Directory it was known as the Elk Block and housed the Portsmouth Banking Company. In the 1916 directory Elks were meeting at Chillicothe & Sixth (6th) Streets and this building at 546 Second (2nd) Street was called "Eagle's Hall." In the mid 1940's the Eagles address listing changed to 950 Gallia Street.
Black & White photo of family on lawn with trees. Hermsdorf was a four acre lot owned by Herman Herms, located on the north side of Greenlawn Cemetery on Kinneys Lane.
Colorized photo image of the Y.M.C.A. at the corner of Gallia and Norfolk Streets. It was built by the N & W Railroad for railroad employees' overnight sleeping rooms. It was closed in 1960 and razed in 1968.
Sepia tone photo image of the rutted dirt road along side a waterway on the way north toward Crichton's Inn near Rushtown. The Inn was owned and operated by William Crichton, a native of Scotland and mill worker in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The Inn was located on a hill on the west side of Route 104 near the N & W Railway passenger station in Rushtown. The Inn closed in 1919.
