1800's Route 66
Explore the road system of the 1800's at Forgotten Taverns. Stagecoaches became obsolete with the growth of railroad as did the roads they traveled. #ForgottenTaverns
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Jenkins Post House
Stage services in the Boston area gained momentum around 1800. Setting off in the early morning, the stage would reach Andover five hours later for a lunch break and a change of horses at Jenkins’ Post House. The 34-mile journey to Andover necessitated stops for rest and horse changes.
Captain
Disruptive Technologies change Taverns forever.
“Who, in these days when all things go by steam
Recalls the stage-coach, with its four horse team?
Its sturdy driver –who remembers him?
Or the old landlord, saturnine and grim,
Who left our hill-top for a new abode
And reared his sign-post farther down the road?”
In 1878, Oliver