Four-team Stagecoach

ID: 2594
This file appears in: Bright's Inn
Four-team Stagecoach

Depending on the size of the stagecoach and the distance to be traveled, coaches could be pulled by two, four, or six horse teams. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.

This file appears in: Bright's Inn

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2433 near Stanford remembers Bright's Inn, an important stage coach stop on the Wilderness Road between Cumberland Gap and Louisville. Travel in the early nineteenth century could be a trying experience. If the modes of…