Travel – something we all do,
whether it’s a walk to the mailbox, a cross country (or international) trip for
vacation, or a move to a new residence.
We often take for granted the modes of transportation available to us
and the speed with which we can traverse large distances.
I recently
discovered a neat resource, Travel Western
North Carolina. It talks about wagon trails in the
1890s, the train in the 1910s and the automobile in the 1930s. A travel map is laid out for each mode, when
you place your cursor over an identified “stop” on the route, a picture pops up
and if you click on the “Tour the town” link, information contemporaneous to
the timeline is shared. It really gives you a visual feel for the mode of
transport overlaid on the time period when it was booming.
What a neat way to
vicariously travel as our ancestors would have at the turn of the last century.
As always, this
sparked my interest in whether there are similar website resources that have
been created for other locales? I didn’t
see anything comparable though I did come across some interesting resources
about travel.
+ 18th-Century Modes
of Travel (Colonial Williamsburg
Has such a resource been created for a locale you have researched?
Editor's Note: Another Upfront with NGS post dealing with
traveling is How fast could you travel across the
U.S. in the 1800s?
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