Church Street, Hyndman, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of highways and byways.

Caption: "Church St., Hyndman, Pa."

This is a real photo postcard showing the buildings and landscape at the corner of Church and Bedford Streets in the small town of Hyndman, which is located in the south central part of Pennsylvania among the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.

Fortunately, Google Street View has recorded both metropolitan highways as well as the small-town byways like the one. The current Google view of this location is similar to the scene captured one hundred years ago in the photo. The street is now paved and a few windows are missing from the house, but the pillars holding up the porch are intact and the iron fence is still there.

The type of Azo stamp box (with four corner triangles pointing up) printed on the other side of this photo postcard suggests a possible date that may be as early as 1904 to 1918.