Frequently we share a different historic image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia.

Do you recognize this Lake Champlain landmark?! (Did you know it before you saw the caption?) It’s Barn Rock on Lake Champlain. Do you have any stories to share of visits there? What do you think of the artwork?

Here is what the community had to say:

Deborah Sells Blake: I jumped off the top just once but have brought many others there and helped them jump off too!

Bob Ellis: As I jumped off the top someone in the the bay shouted “there he goes”, I looked over my shoulder and ended up laid out. I hit the water almost on my back. Breath knocked out of me, went down about 20’ and as a sinker I struggled back to the surface. My friends asked if I was OK and laughed when I responded “No!”

Dorinda Uhl: My husband and son and I went for a bit of a walk and went to the top there where my smart— son pretended to jump. Mother(me) was not happy LOL. Yeah, when heights are not your favorite thing the last thing I needed was that. The view was lovely and all in all it was a wonderful hike.

Matt C. Morian: OOPS ! Just thought to myself it was Split Rock .

Faintly on the bottom of the postcard I can make out: “Copyright 1890 by S. R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, NY.” That is Seneca Ray Stoddard (1844–1917), a landscape photographer of some renown.

Below is the back side of this postcard. There is not much information there as it was never mailed.

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