{"id":423,"date":"2011-05-20T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:29:12","slug":"travel-and-transportation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Travel and Transportation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Station-Wagon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-424\" title=\"Station Wagon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Station-Wagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Did you ever wonder how a station wagon got its name?\u00a0 This is a plan for a model manufactured by Litchfield&#8217;s own carriage makers, Flynn &amp; Doyle.\u00a0 The wagons were designed to transport train travelers to and from their final destination or place of departure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stage-broadside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-425\" title=\"Stage broadside\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stage-broadside.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Earlier in the 19th Century, travelers and mail were transported via stagecoach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-of-Stage-Coach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-426\" title=\"Photo of Stage Coach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-of-Stage-Coach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This photo of a stagecoach notes that it was sold in Danbury in the early 20th Century for $800.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Phaeton-advertisement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-427\" title=\"Phaeton advertisement\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Phaeton-advertisement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This advertisement from 1827 describes the Aerial Phaeton.\u00a0 It sounds like an early amusement park ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever wonder how a station wagon got its name?\u00a0 This is a plan for a model manufactured by Litchfield&#8217;s own carriage makers, Flynn &amp; Doyle.\u00a0 The wagons were designed to transport train travelers to and from their final destination or place of departure. Earlier in the 19th Century, travelers and mail were transported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}