Oxford Review-Times
April 24, 1925
(Except from article “When I Was A Boy”)
When I was a boy the plank road from Oxford to Norwich was in prime order and considered a great achievement. The four-horse stagecoaches and packet boat on the canal were the only public means of getting in and out of town unless one patronized one of the two livery stables.
The stagecoaches rattled down the plank road at a marvelous speed for those days, an horsemen boasted that their old names could do “2 40 on the plank.” The stage line from Utica to Chenango Forks with a change of horses at Oxford, the stage barn being part of Church’s lumber storehouse on Taylor street. The drivers were expert reins men and the skill with which they guided their “prancing steered” turned many a boy’s idea of being a pirate to that of being a stage diver when he grew up. The packet boats on the canal ran from Binghamton to Norwich.
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