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Description:
Original antique postcard dated 1906 featuring the Main Building and Cottage, Old Soldiers’ Home, Mountain Creek, Alabama.This historic facility was Alabama’s state home for aging and disabled Confederate veterans and later their wives and widows. The Soldiers’ Home opened in the early 1900s, making this postcard an especially early view of the property.The card was postally used on September 22, 1906, with clear cancellations from Montgomery, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee. It was mailed to Miss Bettie Odom, 710 Clay St., Nashville, Tenn.This is an undivided-back postcard, dating from the early era of American postcards when personal messages were written on the picture side. The original handwritten message remains visible on the front.The image shows both the main building and a cottage at the Mountain Creek Soldiers’ Home. The original complex no longer survives intact, making early photographic views such as this especially interesting to collectors of Alabama history, Civil War and Confederate veterans material, Chilton County history, historic architecture, and early postcards.I have found very few examples of postcards from the Mountain Creek Soldiers’ Home, and this particular “Main Building and Cottage” view appears to be quite scarce.Condition:
Antique postcard. Please review all photos carefully for exact condition. Stored in a protective sleeve.Details:
• Mountain Creek, Alabama
• Old Soldiers’ Home / Confederate Veterans Home
• Main Building and Cottage
• Postmarked September 22, 1906
• Montgomery, Alabama to Nashville, Tennessee
• Undivided back
• Original 1-cent postage stamp
• Early Alabama historical postcard
• Postally usedA notable rarity point for collectors: the Alabama Department of Archives & History catalogs only two Old Soldiers’ Home postcards from Mountain Creek in its statewide postcard collection. While that does not mean only two examples survive, it strongly suggests that cards from this specific site are scarce and seldom encountered. This 1906 example is especially desirable because it is an early, postally used, undivided-back view of the Soldiers’ Home during its active years.A very nice early piece of Alabama and Confederate veterans history with strong local and historical interest.
