Columbus Dispatch history columnist Ed Lentz explores how the advent of the stagecoach opened 1800s Ohio to interstate commerce and other travel.
To meet the needs of hard-pressed travelers, the new state soon became home to entrepreneurs of transit. As early as 1814, U.S. Rep. James Kilbourn announced that certain “post roads” had been established to carry mail through the state. But this was carriage by horsemen — often young boys — and was not public transit by any means.
In short order, some other residents of the capital city saw the emergence of wheeled transport as a way to make some money. Among them was William Neil, who arrived in Columbus in 1818. He came to Urbana in 1815 with his young wife Hannah to establish a bank. That did not work, and he came to Columbus. He built a sizeable log tavern across from the main entrance to the Statehouse. Leaving his wife Hannah with the tavern, he went into the stagecoach business.
The golden age of the stagecoach in central Ohio was from 1830 with better roads to 1860 with the arrival of railroads. In 1885, a young writer named Lida Rose McCabe wrote a small book called “Don’t You Remember” with an account of a stage coming into Columbus. Since she was only 18 at the time, this account was a bit of a creation. But it did describe an early era.
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