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From: "gordon crooks" <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] 19th Century Travel
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:20:32 -0400
References: <20061021000659.72652.qmail@web81807.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Mary Ellen: Not mentioned by others is the old Liberty Road to the West,
this was actually surveyed by Geo. Washington in the period you are talking
about it was mainly a toll road.

Gordon
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From: "Mary Ellen Chambers" <>
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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:06 PM
Subject: [MDWashin] 19th Century Travel


> Would anyone on the list have any thoughts or data how the "normal" people
> traveled? Guess that would be the newly forming middle class; carpenters,
> tradesmen, etc. in the latter half of the 19th century.
>
> My husband's family settled in Green Spring Furnace area about 1850. His
> g grandfather was a C&O boatman who probably based out of Four Locks on
> the canal. The family had relations in MA, Salem - Peabody - Waltham.
> Since his g grandparents were nearly illiterate and their children (sons)
> learned to read & write after serving in the Civil War, letter writing
> between the branches would not have been too common. We have the MA
> cousins listed at special occasions in MD. They were not wealthy, so how
> did they travel that distance to visit? Stagecoach or train or boat to
> Baltimore then the C&O canal, curious how they kept in contact over the
> years before automobiles, buses, phones, etc.
>
> Mary Ellen Chambers
>
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