Stagecoach Days

Interior of the Jerome Tavern on Mohawk Turnpike at St. Johnsville. By Rufus Grider.

[Owego Gazette, August 24, 1819]

[From the New York Spectator, May 16, 1826]

This is all that remained of the old toll house on the west side of Cayuga Lake in the 1930s. Photo courtesy of Bill Hecht ...

A romanticized cutaway sketch of an early Erie Canal packet boat. (Syracuse Journal, September 18, 1891) Fashionable Travel...

The Nellis Tavern along Route 5 at St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, New York,  is a historic inn and tavern built about 1750 as a far...

Geneva (N.Y) Gazette June 20, 1884               The Stage Driver's Story                        ___ How General Scott's...