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Title: Collection of papers prepared and read before the Worcester Society of Antiquity
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925 Worcester Society of Antiquity
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Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s per mile; fareson the Old line, three and one-half cents per mile,—making the cost of passage to New Haven $9.87 in themail stage, and $8.75, old line (about fourteen miles of thedistance being saved by the route followed by the mailstage). Stages leaving Boston Monday 10 A. M. would arrivein New York Thursday at 11 A. M. (one hour over threedays), summer season. In winter season, they left BostonTuesday 8 A. M., reaching New York Saturday 11 A. M,(four days and three hours). This speed (although slowcompared with means of travel to-day), was like an expresstrain compared with the attempt in July, 1772, to carrypassengers between New York and Boston, naming thirteendays for the trip each w^ay. But this scheme was a failure.In 1806, there were two stages through Worcester eachway daily. Two years later there were four each waydaily. But why were certain highways given the name ofPost Roads? That term is said to have originated inFrance. They were routes selected over which couriers
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