Sending Love to Long Level

Sending Love to Long Level – 1907

On the West Bank of the Susquehanna, a few miles below Wrightsville, is an area known as “Long Level”.

The name dates from the era of the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, the transportation innovation that furthered economic growth in York County in the first half of the 19th century.

From the Wiki:

“Long Level in Pennsylvania was named… for the …Long Level stretch of the Susquehanna And Tidewater Canal that ran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania to Havre de Grace, Maryland.

Long Level is in Lower Windsor Township, Pennsylvania about four miles south of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River.”

In September of 1907, M.K. (?) mailed a postcard to Mr. Luther Frey of Long Level.

(The receiving postmark is visible on the face of the postcard.

The postmaster/postmistress did not appreciate postcard art!)

The postcard was mailed, I believe, from Washington Boro, on the eastern shore of the Susquehanna.

Printed in Europe, the postcard features a loving couple in a rural setting beside a river.

(The woman is wearing an elaborately-embroidered vest or top.)

Unfortunately, I know nothing more about this cross-river romance.

ADDENDUM: A reader on the Retro York site identified M.K. as Margaret (Maggie) Kist, the woman from Washington Boro who married Luther Frey. Our enterprising reader discovered that she is related to this couple.

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