Western Stage Company: Cincinnati, Trenton, West Middletown, Dayton
Cincinnati Trenton West Middletown Poasttown * Carlisle * Dayton "For forty years or more there has been an omnibus run daily between New London and Cincinnati. The Western Stage Company carried on staging 35 years ago. John R. BEVIS was an early proprietor; from him it passed into the hands of his brother, Jesse C., who quite recently sold out to Charles SHIELDS, who, in turn, sold to Clements BUTTERFIELD. In former days, before the time of pikes, an old-fashioned leather-spring stage was run between Cincinnati and Connersville. The trip was made in three days. Frederic GEORGE was among the first and most permanent drivers." from the 1882 A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, in Morgan township. See this page also for more info on early roads.)
Mail Stage: Cincinnati, Hamilton, Dayton
"In 1825 the Cincinnati and Dayton mail stage ran once a week between Cincinnati and Dayton. It left Cincinnati every Monday at 4 A. M., and arrived at Hamilton the same day by 6 P. M. It left Hamilton every Tuesday at 4 A. M., and arrived at Dayton the same day at 6 P. M. From Dayton it left every Friday at 4 A. M., reaching Hamilton the same day by 6 P. M. It departed from Hamilton every Saturday at 4 A.M. and arrived at Cincinnati the same day by 6 P. M." A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio)
Cincinnati, Hamilton, Eaton and Richmond line
Mentioned in the Elk Creek bicentennial sketch for Madison Township
Okeana (Butler County, Morgan twp.)
A member of the Morgan Township Historical Society thinks that the Grover Nugent house in Okeana was
a stagecoach stop. The house is now gone. There definitely was a bus line going through Morgan Twp. before the 1840s. It went from Cincy to Brookville, Indiana. - Jill Evans, MTHS
Oxford, Millford, Cincinnati
Stage route established about 1835 Oxford had several taverns, houses, and bars for travelers, some of whom went on to Bath Springs or Brookville, IN.
Accomodation Stagecoach Line
US Route 42: In the early 1800s, a part of what is now US Route 42 in Greene and Warren Counties was used by the Accommodation (Stagecoach) Line route (source) Waynesville: historic houses on the Accommodation Line, which connected Cincinnati with the
National Road (old route 40) at Springfield. Corwin: the Accomodation Line followed the western ridge of the Little Miami River. This Franklin-Trenton Road
followed an old Indian trail. This stage line was eventually replaced with the Little Miami Railroad, which ran through Corwin in Warren County.
Special thanks to Jennifer Gandert, Lebanon, for suggesting more links
Page set up Jan 13 2001 by Nancy Sween for the Butler County OHGenWebresources page and the History of the American Westtransportation page.