Brown Stone Falls drops over dark, blocky ledges in a wooded gorge near Mellen, Wisconsin. The stream runs narrow and white between the rocks, with trees crowding the banks. Mellen sits in Ashland County near Lake Superior, a town that grew with the iron mines of the Penokee Range. The falls are on the Bad River in the country that became Copper Falls State Park, a scenic stop promoted to tourists in the early auto age.
White border; real photo postcard; no publisher printed.
No postmark and no stamp present. Divided-back 'POST CARD' (MESSAGE / ADDRESS) with a vertical divider; unused. A small pencil notation is written sideways in the lower-right (address) corner, reading 'D7W3' over '20t', likely a dealer/collector mark rather than correspondence. Front is a white-bordered black-and-white real-photo view of a waterfall, with printed caption 'BROWN STONE FALLS: STATE PARK MELLEN WIS.'
Cite this card
Brown Stone Falls, State Park, Mellen, WI, circa 1929, postcard, c. 1929. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/brown-stone-falls-state-park-mellen-wi-circa-1929. Accessed November 2, 2026.
