New Line of Stage Coaches

Marietta Intelligencer, September 26, 1839

Messrs. Lewis & Hildebrand have commenced running a new line of coaches from Marietta to Winchester, Virginia, a distance of 228 miles. This line passes over the Marietta and Newport Turnpike, and the Middle Island Turnpike, a distance of twenty nine miles, when it strikes the North Western Turnpike, which continues to Winchester. This line runs through in three days, with but little night traveling.

The proprietors have purchased good coaches and teams, and employ none but careful drivers. Some gentlemen of this place, who have just returned from Philadelphia, assure us that it is decidedly the best route they have ever traveled. The grade of the road is easy, the scenery beautiful, and the mountains are all crossed by daylight.

At Winchester, this line connects with rail roads to Baltimore and Washington.  Marietta being completely at the head of low water navigation, steam boats can reach this point when they can go no farther. This being the case, merchants and others from the south and west, who are traveling east, will find it for their advantage to take this route.

This line leaves Marietta every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 2 o'clock, A.M., and arrives in Winchester on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 8 o'clock P.M.  At Marietta, this line also connects with a tri-weekly line of stages to Zanesville.