LOOKING UP MARKET FROM SECOND STREET

Looking north on Market toward the Court House.
The person on the left, front, is Henry C. Ruf.
Courtesy of Louis Ruf, 1500 23rd St., Parkersburg WV 26101.

Looking north from Second Street. The large white building in the middle right
of the photo is the Jackson Hotel on the northeast corner of Third.

Looking south toward the 100 and 200 blocks of Market Street from Court Square in the 1940s, during a flood.
Photo by Joe Coury, courtesy of Dan Kemper.

Looking south on Market toward Second Street during the 1913 flood.
Photo courtesy of Dan Kemper.

This photo taken from Second Street (but not looking up Market) during one of the floods shows the Courthouse a block north.

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