Chapters : Colonial Stage Lines -- Revival After the Revolution -- Stagecoaches and the Mail (a debate of the confederation period ) -- The Stages Roll ( 1790 to 1800 ) -- The Early Stage Coaches -- Perils of the Road -- The Stage Driver -- The "Steplively Era" in the East -- The Post Office and the Stages -- Newspapers and the Stages -- Stagecoach Makers -- The Stagecoach Tavern -- Steamboats and Stages - Rivals and Partners -- West to the Mississippi -- The Indian Summer of Eastern Staging
Summary
Uses selections from newspapers, travel journals, diaries and government records to describe what it was like to travel by stagecoach.
This collection contains the family papers of Helen Buckwalter Woerner from 1798-1939 including deeds, farm inventories, public sale posters, estate papers, and contracts. Some items of interest are the deeds, public sale documents, and a Campbell's Soup Company contract for tomato growing. A map shows the site master plan for the Lancaster Airport that was built on this family's farmland.
Bus stopped at North Queen Street with a sign for Green's Ice Cream. Photo taken for the Pennsylvania School of the Arts History of the Future Project.
