Miss Lizzie Monks lived in West Chester, a borough and county seat of Chester County in southeast Pennsylvania.
Incorporated in 1789, West Chester became a center of clock-making and of wheel works in the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Chester,_Pennsylvania
Today, a large campus of the State University System and a remarkable Historic District attract visitors to the borough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Chester_Downtown_Historic_District
In March of 1907, Lizzie received a postcard from Mabel.
The postcard was mailed from Pottstown, a borough on the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County of southeast Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottstown,_Pennsylvania
Platted in 1752, Pottstown attracted immigrants from Germany, Sweden, and England.
Now primarily an agricultural and dairy region, this was the site of significant iron works in the Colonial Era and through the 19th century.
https://ironandsteelheritage.org/SE/historic_pottstown.cfm
An early station of the Reading & Pennsylvania Railroad is now within the borough’s Historic District.
West Chester is about 23 miles south of Pottstown.
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The face of the postcard is a photograph of “The Haystack, Ringing Rocks Park” in “Pottstown, PA.”
(The current name is “Ringing Hill Park”, about three miles northeast of Pottstown.)
There are more than a dozen boulder fields in southeast Pennsylvania with “ringing rocks” – “sonorous” or “lithophonic” boulders that produce a bell-like sound when struck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_rocks
The vibrations are at a very low frequency and are audible only when in a field of boulders.
The rocks share a characteristic of high iron content.
The postcard photograph was copyrighted in 1905 by the Rotograph Publishing Company of New York City – it was printed in Germany.
https://rotographproject.blogspot.com/2012/02/brief-history.html
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Because the postcard has an undivided back, Mabel inscribed a brief greeting on the face.
She writes, “Happy Easter to Lizzie from Mabel”.
In 1907, Easter fell on March 31 – explaining the Easter Greeting in March.
Lizzie preserved the postcard in good condition throughout her life.
One hopes that she and Mabel enjoyed a wonderful Easter, and that they exchanged many more postcards.
