Index to Postcards 

This section is devoted to Washington County postcards.  I've split the web into sections.  Click a link below and see what I have.  

1. scenic postcards

2. road / location postcards (ex. National Road) / autos

3. City Markers

4. Buildings in Cities

5. Churches

6. Schools

7. People

8. Other Counties

Please send your postcard images.  Don't forget to tell me if they are "postally used" or "postally unused."  If used, please scan both front and back, so visitors can read the message, and see the postmark and stamp.  Include your full name if you want credit on the web page, and tell me if you want me to use your E-mail address also.

Article submitted by Wilberta DiVincenzo, from The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Friday, September 4, 1908, Page 3:

GETS 78 POST CARDS.

Aged Woman Receives One for Each year of Her Life.

WASHINGTON, PA., Sept. 3.--(Special)--Friends of Mrs. Agnes Merchant of Buffalo Village sent her souvenir post-cards congratulating her on her 78th birthday.  Mrs. Merchant went for the mail herself and her astonishment was unbounded when Postmaster N. E. Leech handed her 78 post-cards, one for each year of her life.

Mrs. Merchant is a great-granddaughter of William Smiley, who in 1800 took a cargo of flour on a flatboat from Washington county down Buffalo creek to the Ohio, then to the Mississippi and thence to New Orleans, where he sold it, and with the money thus raised saved the Upper Buffalo church building from being sold for debt.  He walked the entire distance from New Orleans to Washington county.

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