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The York Portland Cement Company was on the east side of Chillicothe Pike, 12 North on Kinney's Lane
The Buster Novelty Company was located on the east side of Market Street near Second (2nd) Street.

In 1900, the Railroad Y. M. C. A. was located conveniently near the N & W Railroad yards at the end of Norfolk Street. It was razed in about 1980.
The picture of the old Esplanade in 1973 also shows Marting's and the Montgomery Ward Building, later…

This page of the Industrial Portsmouth, Ohio 1880-1980: The All American City states that William W. Born prepared this booklet.

The white steepled building on the left side of Washington is the Bigelow United Methodist Church located at 415 Fourth (4th).
The church on the right of Washington is the German Evangelical Church at the corner of Fifth (5th).

The Wait-Fuller Furniture Company was located at Eighth (8th) and Boundry Streets.
The Portsmouth Brewing Company was on Second (2nd) Street in between Madison and Massie Streets. Later, the building housed the Brewery Arcade.

In 1885 the Baltimore and Ohio R R Yard was about where Valley Wholesale Foods Inc. is today at 415 Market Street.

The old Portsmouth Times building, at the corner of Chillicothe and Front Streets, was razed in 1969 for the expansion of Shawnee Community College.
The Portsmouth Daily Times new building was at 637 Sixth (6th) Street until about 2018.
The…

This is the building site before the Security Bank was constructed at 825 Gallia Street.

The top left is looking south on Chillicothe Street showing the first half of the National Bank Building. Because the National Bank Building first half was built in 1912, the date of "1900" on the left is a typo error.
The picture at the top right…

The building on the left was T. M. Patterson Book Bindery Company at 159 West Front Street where Thomas McNutt Patterson opened his business in 1866. The image at the center bottom shows the T. M. Patterson Paper Box Company at 709 Front Street where…

On this page some text is misplaced and does not match the picture close to it.
Also, the shopping mall did not happen downtown.
The top left is looking south on Chillicothe with the National Bank Building at the left.
The top right is looking…

After the Burgess Steel Mill in Portsmouth burned in 1898, Levi York be-built his business in New Boston.The new plant was sold to Crucible Steel of America in 1900. It was named Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902 to 1909, and Whitaker-Glessner…