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'''Travel'''

Before plank roads and railroads, farmers were obliged to carry all their marketable
produce to Albany in lumber wagons, traveling through deep sands for about half
way. A letter to the editor in 1884 states that previous to the building
of the plank
road about 1850 he witnessed "long processions of wagons passing along the 'old
Schoharie Road'. Many times not returning until two days afterward besides the
time previously consumed and yet to be consumed."

An issue of the Enterprise in 18
98 reminisced about the stage coach:

"The mail coach toiled up and was
whirled down the "Old Stage
Road" each
day. A bumping, rumbling
old coach on leather springs
with a huge boot
behind full of trunks and drawn by four flying
horses.

"Delivered letters
on foolscap carefully folded in together and
sealed with a
gob of sealing wax or many gay colored wafers and was carefully left
unpaid.
�
"It was the only rapid transit to and over the Helderbergs.

"In winter when the countryside
was rich in snow banks that
filled the lanes
from the top rail to the top rail of the staked fences."

In the 1920's, transportation to the city was provided by the Jitney bus, a gasoline
-
powered vehicle with open sides. Later, in the 1940's, Wade's bus service brought
workers from Middleburg to Schenectady.

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JElberfeld at 01:04, 1 December 2013

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