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Bishop Philander Chase was the founder of Kenyon College, and the ridge connecting his institution of higher learning to the more earthy drinking and dancing establishments made it a popular route that became humorously known as The Bishop’s Backbone.
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An advertisement for Woolson’s store can be found in the 1915 Farm Journal Rural Directory for Knox County, available for perusal online in Kenyon College’s online archives at digital.kenyon.edu.
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The back of the postcard shows that it was published by Woolson’ Racket Store of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and printed in Germany, proving that global outsourcing is nothing new. Correspondent Edd clearly didn’t have much to say.
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This vintage postcard from 1910 shows the then-unpaved road out of Mount Vernon heading toward Gambier along the ridge known as “The Bishop’s Backbone.”
GALLERY: The hill road
