UPDATED: 6-1-2014
PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA:   A VINTAGE PORTRAIT

BELPRE, OHIO




Looking toward Belpre and the B&O bridge, 1897.
(Courtesy of Dan Kemper.)





The 1827 Congregational Church at Main and Third is under water during a 29 April 1913 flood.





The 300 block of Main Street circa 1945. Left to right are 303 (Peter McCualsky),
305 (William Reid) and 307 (Barclay "Bud" McCualsky).
(Courtesy of Louis Ruf)





David Oliver, the construction foreman of the B&O Railroad bridge from Parkersburg to Belpre,
lived in this house on Florence Street in Belpre (seen here in the 1890s). The house was
built near 8th Street around 1867-70. Oliver was later a leading contractor in the area.
(Courtesy of Louis Ruf.)





Looking north from the railroad trestle during the 1913 flood.





This is a 1927 service program for the Belpre Congregational Church.
(Courtesy of Louis Ruf)





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