• Whitewater Canal Feeder Dam – Laurel Indiana Vintage Postcard
  • Whitewater Canal Feeder Dam LAUREL INDIANA Vintage Postcard
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Whitewater Canal Feeder Dam – Laurel, Indiana | Vintage Chrome Era Postcard

Whitewater Canal Feeder Dam – Laurel, Indiana | Vintage Chrome Era Postcard

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AT A GLANCE

Title:
"Whitewater Canal Feeder"
Publisher:
Mike Roberts Color Production
Type:
Standard Size Postcard (3 ½” x 5 ½”)
Subject:
Canals, dams
Style:
Documentary, canals and waterways
Circa:
Late 1960s to Early 1970s
Print type:
Photochrome print
Condition:
Excellent (EX)
Color:
Glossy
Postcard:
Chrome
Photographer:
R.E. Stoops
Location:
Laurel, Indiana USA
Postmark:
Unposted | Unused
Notes:
Code #C4735

Vintage chrome‑era postcard featuring the Whitewater Canal Feeder Dam at Laurel, Indiana. This historic structure was one of seven feeder dams supplying water to the 76‑mile Whitewater Canal, which once connected Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg to Hagerstown. The dam was damaged in the major floods of January and November 1847, events that shaped the canal’s operational history and the development of Laurel as an early industrial center in eastern Indiana. Photographed by R.E. Stoops of Connersville and produced in color by Mike Roberts of Berkeley, California, the card captures the dam, stonework, and surrounding autumn landscape in crisp chrome‑era color.

Unposted and in excellent condition, this postcard arrives in a protective sleeve. A strong addition for collectors of Indiana canal history, early American engineering, water‑powered infrastructure, and Stoops/Mike Roberts regional postcards.

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