We met Daisy Pickel in earlier postcard stories. When she received this postcard, Daisy was living on a rural delivery route near Safe Harbor, a
Peters Mountain is a peak (1190 feet) of the Appalachian Mountains on the east side of the Susquehanna River in northern Dauphin County, PA. The
Mrs. Truman Grant lived near Fulton, a town on the Oswego River near Lake Ontario in central New York. The post office in Fulton was
Ida May Bard lived in Columbia, the beautiful town sitting above the Susquehanna River in southern Pennsylvania. Since the early 19th century, the Pennsylvania Canal
Miss Ritta Nickles lived in Rowlandsville, a community that grew up around iron works in the 19th century. (This may be “Rita Nichols”. Spelling is
Tunkhannock is a borough of Wyoming County in northern Pennsylvania, about 88 miles northwest of Allentown and 141 miles northwest of New York City. Once
Before the age of railroads, canals were the engines of trade and economic growth. They were the first large-scale infrastructure investments in the United States.
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
I found an unusual postcard image of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Marietta. The image is not an hand-colored photograph, but an artist’s drawing. The
The Susquehanna River forms the western border of Lancaster County, PA. The river-front community of Pequea grew up where the Pequea Creek empties into the
This romantic tale straddles the Susquehanna River in south central Pennsylvania. Ada lived in Steelton, Pennsylvania, a borough in Dauphin County, not far from Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania Canal and Bridge at Columbia This postcard, printed in the United States in the first years of the 20th century, bears a legend, “Pennsylvania
The Conowingo Dam – circa 1950 The Conowingo Dam is the third of the three great hydro-electric dams on the lower Susquehanna. Constructed between 1925
Tellings stories from the past.