Sunday, May 16, 2010

Old Postcards: Cumberland Falls


Two more beautiful old Kentucky postcards. Take a moment to stare at the scans.

The top card gives this dated (but fun!) info:
The Falls are located in Cumberland Falls State Park and can be easily reached over a State-maintained road recently finished.
Cumberland Falls is sometimes called "Kentucky's Niagara." The Falls are about sixty-eight feet in height, average width about 125 feet. The tremendous volume of water that passes over the falls at times creates a roar and a mist of a young Niagara. The moonbow seen from the falls during full moon on clear nights is a natural phenomenon occurring in only two places in the world- Victoria Falls in Southern Africa and Cumberland Falls in Kentucky.

The bottom postcard is postmarked 1943.

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