The Old Post Road Part III, The Stagecoaches See part 1 here. See part 2 here. By 1825, the business of travel by stagecoach was coming into full flower. A traveler could cover the distance from Boston to New York in a … [Read more...] about Historian’s corner
The postmaster
Historian’s corner
Part II, The Postmaster See part 1 here. See part 3 here. The colonial mails were still slow, expensive and unreliable when in 1751, the Crown appointed William Hunter and Benjamin Franklin as Joint Postmasters for the Continent of North … [Read more...] about Historian’s corner