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new era in correspondence and business
The stone roads, which were passable at all seasons, brought a
new era in correspondence and business. Lines of stages and
wagons, as well known at that time as are the great railways of
today, plied the new thoroughfares, provided some of the comforts
of travel, and assured the safer and more rapid delivery of
goods. This period is sometimes known in American history as ‘The
Era of Good Feeling’ and the turnpike contributed in no small
degree to make the phrase applicable not only to the domain of
politics but to all the relations of social and commercial life.

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look more like a leading avenue of a great city than a road
through rural districts
‘visible all the day long, at every point, making the highway
look more like a leading avenue of a great city than a road
through rural districts…. I have staid over night with
William Cheets on Nigger [Negro] Mountain when there were about
thirty six-horse teams in the wagon yard, a hundred Kentucky
mules in an adjoining lot, a thousand hogs in their enclosures,
and as many fat cattle in adjoining fields. The music made by
this large number of hogs eating corn on a frosty night I shall
never forget. After supper and attention to the teams, the
wagoners would gather in the bar-room and listen to the music on
the violin furnished by one of their fellows, have a Virginia
hoe-down, sing songs, tell anecdotes, and hear the experiences of
drivers and drovers from all points of the road, and, when it was
all over, unroll their beds, lay them down on the floor before
the bar-room fire side by side, and sleep with their feet near
the blaze as soundly as under the parental roof.’

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Eddie Griffin Enzo Crash Caught on Tape LIVE!

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