. Book of the Royal blue . , and three years laterservice was established between Columbusand Delaware by stage coach, but notuntil the late thirties does there seem tohave been much improvement in the mailservice. In 1887 a line of stage coacheswas established between Columbus andCincinnati, advertised as a marvel of rapid construction of other turnpike roads lead-ing from Columbus. The event of this period, however, wasthe opening of a lateral branch of the OhioCanal to the state capital. This was cele-brated with great eclat April 27,1827. Oneof the toasts drank on that occasion was: The Oh
. Book of the Royal blue . , and three years laterservice was established between Columbusand Delaware by stage coach, but notuntil the late thirties does there seem tohave been much improvement in the mailservice. In 1887 a line of stage coacheswas established between Columbus andCincinnati, advertised as a marvel of rapid construction of other turnpike roads lead-ing from Columbus. The event of this period, however, wasthe opening of a lateral branch of the OhioCanal to the state capital. This was cele-brated with great eclat April 27,1827. Oneof the toasts drank on that occasion was: The Ohio Canal.—The great artery which willcarry vitality to the extremity of the Union. Rather extravagant praise for a slug-gish stream of muddy water, with itsaccompaniment of lazy-gaited, long-earedmotive power, but even the crude railroadsof the early half of the century had notyet penetrated so far inland, and the canalrepresented, not, perhaps, rapid transit,but the nearest approach to it that Colum-bus had as yet (lUANT STATK FAIR GROUNDS. transit, to make the trip in twenty-fourand one-half hours. In the same year a horse express was puton the road between Fredericktown, ild.,and Cincinnati, bringing to the west specialmail from New York, Philadelphia and Haiti-more. In the evening the people of Colum-bus would gather to watch for these bloodedhorses, the best that could be procured,ridden by boys, go through the streets on arun, their speed averaging eleven and one-half miles per hour for the entire distance. In 1826 the Columbus & SanduskyJoint Turnpike Company was incorporated,and a turnpike constructed from Columbusto Sandusky which gave an outlet to LakeErie, and this was quickly followed by the The Ohio Canal was considered a finething until it was superseded by a better—a railroad. The first railroad built fromColumbus was the Columbus it Xenia. in1850. This connected with the LittleMiami and opened up communication withCincinnati. The next year
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