Miss Nettie Hess lived in Oregon, a small community beside the Oregon Pike (PA Route 272), about five miles northeast of Lancaster, PA. In the
Miss Nellie Butler lived in Barnesville, a village in Belmont County of east-central Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnesville,_Ohio In April of 1912, Nellie received a postcard from her
Miss Maude Pettit lived in Tonawanda, a city that grew up near the terminus of the Erie Canal – north of Buffalo, NY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonawanda,_New_York In
Mrs. Ida Wright lived in Martinsburg, an old city in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. As the gateway to the Shenandoah Valley, Martinsburg was
We met Mrs. Adam Borry in an earlier postcard story; she received a postcard from her young grandson, Russell, thanking her for the tie she
Miss Margaret Bernhardt lived in Finderne, a populated place in central New Jersey. (In 1927, the post office in Finderne was closed.) In April of
Columbia was an important transportation hub throughout the 19th century. When the state of New York opened the Erie Canal in 1825, and construction began