Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. 6
In the older days, shipmasters became merchants, owning their own vessels, and buying and selling their own cargoes. Such men were captains. Joseph Decker and Samuel C'lough, of Wiscasset, and Captain William L'add, of Minot. In like manner freight drivers became inland merchants, buying the freight they carried and selling to small store keepers in the interior. Mr. Waterman and. Mr. Stone entered this business. They even traveled into tcan ada with lines of goods.
The golden period of the passenger coach and the freight wagon was between the years 1840 and 1850. In 1846 Grovenor Water house opened a daily stage line between Paris and Portland. The same year the British mail was carried from Portland to Montreal in twen'ty - six hours as against a previous record of t'hirty-two hours. Even before the first date Maine people had begun to dream of different and faster methods of transportation.
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