The Famous Blue Hole, Castalia, Ohio (Date Unknown)

The Famous Blue Hole, Castalia, Ohio (Date Unknown)
Vintage linen postcard showing the famous Blue Hole in Castalia, Ohio.

The description on the front of the card:
The Famous Blue Hole, Castalia, Ohio
In Ohio’s Lake Erie Vacationland
6 Miles from Sandusky

Estimated Date: 1930-1940s

Collection: The Blue Hole

No. in Series: 34
Era: Linen Era
Condition: Unused

The description on the back of the card:
The Blue Hole, Castalia, Ohio. Six miles west of Sandusky, Ohio, on Route 101. The depth of the Blue Hole is unknown. The visible depth is apparently 50 or 60 feet. It finds its source in an underground river and maintains a temperature of 48 degrees, winter and summer. It is not affected by floods or drought. The volume of water flowing from this marvelous spring is seven million gallons daily, sufficient to supply a city of 75,000 population.

Back of The Famous Blue Hole, Castalia, Ohio (Date Unknown)
Back of the postcard.

Distributed by: 

Geo. H. Tremper, Sandusky, Ohio

According to The Sandusky Register, George H. Tremper was the Erie County treasurer in the 1940s.

Genuine Curteich-Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” postcard, a tradename under Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois

Established in 1898, the Curt Teich Co. was best known for its wide range of advertising and postcards of North America. By the 1920s, it was producing so many postcards with borders that they became recognized as a type dubbed "White Border Cards," creating an "era." Later, Curt Teich's innovations in this printing technique directly led to the production of what we now call “linens” by the early 1930s.
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Photo by: Mound Photo, Sandusky, Ohio

Rights Info: Public Domain

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