Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Big Pool
Business along the canal
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
wcco137
IDEntry
5917
Creator
Lancelot Shank
Date
1875-03-18
Collection Location
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Original size
14 x 9 cms
Coverage
Maryland, 1824-1938
Body
United States Postal Card
To Mr. Franklin S. Grove
Sharpsburg, Washington County Maryland
March 18th, 1875
Mr. F.S. Grove
My wood is green if that will suit you I can have a load ready on the canal bank by the first of April.
Respectfully
Lancelot Shank
P.S. let me here from you.
Notes
This postcard is from the collection of Patricia Hammond.
There are two Lancelot Shanks listed in the 1870 census, both farmers, one living in Clear Spring district, the other at Green Spring Furnace. The Cherry Run B&O postoffice was in West Virginia, across the river from Big Pool.