Colored image of the first US Grant Bridge, viewed from the Kentucky side, connecting Ohio and KY by US Route 23, showing Portsmouth in the background. Also known as the Fullerton Bridge, it opened in 1927 as a toll bridge, became toll free in 1974,…
Black and white photo looking south toward the Masonic Temple at the northwest corner of Chillicothe and Fourth (4th) Streets in the 1913 flood when the Bragdon Dry Goods Company was located in the building. This Masonic Temple was built in 1906 and…
Tinted image of the Greenwood steamboat in the Ohio river. The Greenwood was built by Captain Greene at Parkersburg, WV and completed in Ironton. On her maiden trip in October, 1898, she left Portsmouth and sank at the mouth of the Scioto River…
Colored photo of the C & O Railway Bridge over the Ohio River at Sciotoville. Completed in 1917, the C & O bridge is the longest continuous truss bridge ever built. It spans 1,600 feet between the Ohio and Kentucky shores.