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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. Stagecoach buffalo soldiers

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Add new Web site: Historic UK - The Stagecoach. Jun 10, 2019
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Hero Stage Coach. Feb 18, 2011
Add new Web site: Old and Sold - Stagecoach. Feb 18, 2011
Media added. Dec 04, 2007
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