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The Brodt Shoe Company was located at 519-527 Front Street.
The Tracy Shoe Company was located at 630-632 2nd (Second) Street.
Both manufactured wholesale shoes.

The Plant of the Selby Shoe Company was located at 92-102 East Seventh (7th) Street. The shoe factory closed in 1957, the building had a few other occupants. The Wil-Car (Wilber Carrington) Enterprise Company was in the building at Seventh and…

In 1902, Mr. Irving Drew purchased the Star Shoe Company, changed its name to The Irving Drew Company and became its president.--from History of Scioto County published in 1903 by Nelson Evans.

The Irving Drew Shoe Company manufactured women's shoes. The image on the left is the main office welt and turn factory at 1658- 1662 Eleventh (11th) Street.
The image on the right is the Speciality McKay Factory of the Irving Drew Shoe Company at…

The Ohio Stove Company, incorporated in 1872, manufactured heating and cooking stoves at 11th (Eleventh) Street between Washington Street and Chillicothe Street. By the 1950's the business stopped making stoves and moved toward commercial grey iron…

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…

Opened in 1898 at Chillicothe and Third (3rd) Streets, the Anderson Brothers Company first was a home factory shoe store, but later they added dry goods. In 1925 the two top floors were added to the Anderson Brothers Department Store building. From…

The Gilbert Grocery Company was established by Martin B. Gilbert in 1832 at 167 West Front Street. He ran the business until his death in 1887. Mrs. Gilbert and the other partners moved the company to the Damarin building at 199-203 West Front…

A view of the race track, roller coaster, and the Casino Theater in Millbrook Park.

There are four scenes shown. Scene One: Boating on the Lake in Millbrook Park. This was perhaps the most popular of the activities to do in the park. Scene Two: The Skating Pavilion of the park. Scene Three: The concrete "Y" Bridge in Millbrook Park.…

A map showing Portsmouth, Sciotoville, and New Boston as they were in 1977

Henry Massie set up the boundaries and streets for Portsmouth in 1803. He named the town after Portsmouth, Virginia.