Somerset, NJ Postcard Error?

I went to an antique show at my local 4-H center, I'm actually a leader of a Steampunk club there, but I bought a bunch of old postcards. Some are the old foil stamped Christmas cards and I surprisingly found an original SQUEAKER card that still works! But this postcard I feel like is an error due to a spelling mistake. I've done my research and in Somerset, NJ there is no Chimner Rock Falls. However, there is a Chimney Rock Falls in Somerset, NJ.
Do mistakes like this usually happen?
And all I paid for this was 5 bucks.

This is a privately printed postcard. Mistakes happen. Now a postal card would have more value.

Thanks for the info.

Well, I am not so sure that it is a mistake. I live close to Alabama where the folks talk about yeller (yellow ) and winder ( window ). Maybe chimner is the Southern word for chimney?


Peter

Never thought of that.

nice card

Colloquial names for locales change over time. You got what you paid for. A nice postcard.

The card label and postmark are SomerVILLE, in Somerset County. The Somerville postmaster had a salary of $2600 in 1907.

Typographical errors and misidentifications on postcards are not particularly common, but because most were mass produced like this one, they are not valuable as errors. And with many pre-WWI cards printed in Germany, it is easy to find brick and roof colors differing from reality.

I lived in Jerz (nobody from there ever calls it Joyz or Joizey) for 20 years and used to play in chess tournaments in Somerset. Somerville isn't that far away. New Jersey has almost 600 "official" municipalities - towns, cities, townships, boroughs, villages, some with only a couple of dozen residents - and many more names that don't have any official standing but are well-known nonetheless. Examples of the latter would be sections of Newark such as Ironbound and Weequahic (pronounced Week Wake). Other examples are parts of the larger townships in the central part of the state: for instance, Brick Township (or Brick) is an amalgamation of old settlements such as Herbertsville, Laurelton, Adamston, etc. Somerset is actually another example; it's an unincorporated part of Franklin Township (not to be confused with the Somerset in Mercer County or the Franklin in Sussex County).

"Chimner Rock" is an example of a common variety of typographic error, merging the last letter of one word with the first letter of the next word, though it's a bit unusual to see that kind of typo on a display line. You're right, it's supposed to be Chimney Rock. And John Becker is right, it's in Somerville. But I hope my meandering first paragraph helps to explain why it's OK to get confused in New Jersey, and why collecting New Jersey paraphernalia is infinitely fascinating.

LOL! I just realized I made that mistake! I was using my phone while posting and I must have hit the wrong autocorrect word.
Boy do I feel dumb