Colorized photo image of The Grimes Hotel at 902 Second (2nd) Street. Built by H S Grimes in 1907 at the corner of Second (2nd) and Gay Streets, it had forty-three rooms. It was "Portsmouth's first flat building" according to the Portsmouth Daily times of July 27, 1907.
In 1912 the Y.W.C.A. rented it for their home. It was the Grimes Apartments from about 1922 to 1966 when it was razed for the expansion of Ohio University Portsmouth Branch (now Shawnee U)
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 Ironton.
Colorized image of the steamboat the Greyhound docking at the wharf on the Ohio River at Portsmouth. The Greyhound was built in Ironton in 1901. She ran in the Portsmouth-Proctorville trade and was considered quite fast. Used as a wharfboat in Ironton, she was lost in ice December 31, 1917.
Black and white photo image of the steamboat called the Greenwood. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip, October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank when she hit a snag at the mouth of the Scioto River. She was raised and repaired and ran the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trades until 1925 when she collided with the Chris Greene and sank.
Black and white photo image of the steamboat the Greenwood on the Ohio River near Portsmouth. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip, October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank when she hit a snag at the mouth of the Scioto River. She was raised and repaired and ran the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trades until 1925 when she collided with the Chris Greene and sank.
Tinted image of the steamboat in the river. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip, October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank when she hit a snag at the mouth of the Scioto River. She was raised and repaired and ran the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trades until 1925 when she collided with the Chris Greene and sank.
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 hit a snag. She was raised and repaired and ran the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trades until she sank in 1925 after colliding with the Chris Greene.
Black & white photo image of the Greenland sidewheel packet boat built at Harmer, Ohio in 1903. Her captain, Gorgon C. Greene, ran between Cincinnati and Pomeroy. Damaged by grounding on the Bonanza Bar at Portsmouth in 1917, she was moved to Cincinnati for repair, but she was lost in ice in 1918.
Drawn image of the grave and monument. The "Scioto County Hermit" was born in the "Old Dominion." William Hewitt built and lived in this cave (then in the wilderness) 1820 to 1834. The cave was formed by layers of stone under a shelving rock. The pike was built past the cave in 1840, and the monument erected in 1842.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: The Grave and Monument to "William Hewitt, the Hermit," on Scioto Trail, near Portsmouth, Ohio; Dugan's Grovel; Government Square: the United States Post Office at the corner of Sixth (6th) and Chillicothe Street
