A great National Parks series card of Badlands National Park in South Dakota. The sender is a college professor. Ruckersville is a town of about 1350 people established in 1732 by the same family that established Ruckersville, Georgia in 1773. John Rucker received a land grant from King George II of Great Britain for bringing four convicts to Viriginia as indentured servants. He was given 235 acres of land near Swift Run Gap.  Ruckersville is about 26 km north of Charlottesville. 

Amy from Virginia sent me an older card of Place du Canada, in Montreal. Place du Canada was formerly named Dominion Place and was renamed in 1967, during Canada's centennial celebrations. It contains a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister; the Montreal cenotaph; two cannons donated by Queen Victoria; and a Mitrailleuse (a precursor to a Gatling gun - it could fire all its ammunition at once, or one at a time).  Charlottesville is a small city of about 45 000. It was the home to two former presidents, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe when they were governors of Virginia. It is the home town of James Madison, another former president. The University of Virginia, which was founded by Jefferson, is also here. UVa is also a UNESCO Heritage Site. `9