stagecoach: Quick Facts

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Waterloo Inn, along the route of the first stage between Baltimore and Washington.In the 1790s travel between cities typically involved days of jostling and discomfort on a stagecoach. Even along the main post roads there were many fords and long stretches that were virtually impassable in bad weather.

Drawing from an advertisement for the Phoenix Line, which ran stagecoaches between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., in five hours, c. 1835.

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