Pedlar Dam, Lynchburg water supply, Amherst County, VA, 1908

Subjects: Bridges & Dams Power & Water Works
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1908 (Golden Age)

Back of Pedlar Dam, Lynchburg water supply, Amherst County, VA, 1908, c. 1908 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

The view looks across the Pedlar Dam spillway, where water sheets down a long concrete wall set between wooded hills in Amherst County. A small gatehouse stands at the right end of the dam, and rocky, brush-covered ground fills the foreground below. Completed in 1906, the dam was built to secure Lynchburg's water supply. Its reservoir, an artificial lake a mile and a half long, held 500 million gallons and delivered 8 million gallons a day through a 30-inch conduit running 22 miles to the city. The dam itself measured 500 feet long and 70 feet high, with a 150-foot spillway.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

I will send you a few of the [illegible] when they are [illegible] Thank you very much for inviting me to the closing of your school. Would have liked very much to [illegible] the weather was

PostmarkedVA, April 1, 1908

Addressed to

Miss Willie Addings

Christiansburg, VA

Postcard record

Postmarked	April 1, 1908, VA
Publisher	J. P. Bell Co.
Series	320
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Miss Willie Addings, Christiansburg, VA
Place depicted	Pedlar Dam, Amherst, VA
Place mentioned	J. P. Bell Co., Lynchburg, VA
received	Lynchburg, VA
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930, perforated on all sides
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only
Notes	White border strip along the bottom carrying the printed caption; worn corners and a chipped/abraded top edge; visible halftone/lithographic screen texture. Postmark: circular VA cancel dated APR 1 A.M. 1908 (town name partly legible); second circular REC'D receiving mark dated APR 1. Divided back, white border, color litho. Pencil message written sideways and horizontally. Light edge wear.

Cite this card

Pedlar Dam, Lynchburg water supply, Amherst County, VA, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/pedlar-dam-lynchburg-water-supply-amherst-county-va-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.