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2. Stage station - Wikipedia

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   Yard of the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, 1831 Spent coach-horses Place de Passy, Paris. A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a facility along a main road or trade route where a traveller can rest and/or replace exhausted working animals (mostly riding horses) for fresh ones, since long journeys are much faster with ...

3. Butterfield Overland Mail - Wikipedia

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   Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company) [1] was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried passengers and U.S. Mail from two eastern termini, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California. The routes from each eastern terminus met at Fort Smith, Arkansas ...

4. Travelers Rest (Burlington, West Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   Travelers Rest, also known as Old Stone House, is a historic home located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. It was built as a stagecoach stop to service the Northwestern Turnpike. It serviced the corridor between Winchester, Virginia and Parkersburg, Virginia (now West Virginia ). The house is believed to have been built in two ...

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6. Stagecoach - Wikipedia

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   A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, diligence [1]) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses.

7. Post house (historical building) - Wikipedia

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   Post house (historical building) A post house, posthouse, or posting house was a house or inn where horses were kept and could be rented or changed out. Postriders could also be hired to take travellers [1] by carriage or coach and delivered mail and packages on a route, meeting up at various places according to a schedule.

8. Post chaise - Wikipedia

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   Post chaise. A post-chaise is a fast carriage for traveling post built in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It usually had a closed body on four wheels, sat two to four persons, and was drawn by two or four horses. A postilion rode on the near-side (left, nearest the roadside) horse of a pair or of one of the pairs attached to the post-chaise ...

9. Coach (carriage) - Wikipedia

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   A coach is a large, closed, four-wheeled, passenger-carrying vehicle or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion, or both. A coach has doors in its sides and a front and a back seat inside. The driver has a raised seat in front of the carriage to allow better vision. It is often called a box, box seat ...