Basham Reservoir Under Construction in 1913

ID: 419 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Bill Glockner Collection, Portsmouth Public Library, Henry A. Lorberg Department of Local History, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 1913
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View of Basham Reservoir, looking south, with the Ohio River and Kentucky in the background. The wall that collapsed in 1915 was the east wall, to the left in this image. Note the triangular buttresses supporting the reservoir walls.

This file appears in: Portsmouth’s Basham Hill Reservoir: An Amazing (and Nearly Tragic) History