We have seen other postcard stories that touched upon cliffs and escarpments that that overlook valleys of the Appalachian Mountains:
“Ruth Receives a Large Rock” (Dan’s Mountain near Cumberland, Maryland).
I believe that “Lovers Leap” is part of the same formation as “Dan’s Rock”.
The city of Cumberland lies in a mountain valley at the juncture of Wills Creek and the Potomac River – at the narrowest point of the panhandle of western Maryland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland,_Maryland
The great western migration into Kentucky and Ohio created a market for supplies and wagons, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal once shipped produce and manufactured goods from the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Canal
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Unlike the other views of Appalachian Mountain palisades or cliff faces, this postcard invokes a legend of “Lover’s Leap”.
It has never been clear to me why high precipices are so often linked to myths of doomed love.
There must be scores of places called “Lover’s Leap” in the United States.
(I have postcards related to Indian maidens in canoes plunging over the falls at Niagara and other places – part of the same theme of forbidden romance leading to death.)
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This postcard was not mailed, so there are no personalities attached to it.
The linen-style postcard was published by the firm of Marken & Bielfeld Inc. of Frederick, Maryland.
It is an amazing view, and the blurb on the reverse highlights the features of the Cumberland River and the “National Highway” that can be seen far below the promontory.
The “National Highway” is better known as the “National Road” the first road-building project of the Federal government authorized by President Thomas Jefferson (1806).
That road began at Cumberland, Maryland – and is now US 40.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Road
The postcard asserts (quite plausibly) that one can see features of the surrounding states of West Virginia and Pennsylvania from this high spot.
