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Metzger's Livery.....
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| In the time before the great Civil War, Buffalo was the portal to westward travel. It served as a major transportation hub for both land and sea travel...with passengers coming and going at all hours. Passengers would depart Buffalo's large port on grand steamships bound for other cities along the shores of the Great Lakes. In the center of the city was a large Stagecoach Hub. The hub was ringed by a series of grand hotels..the largest and the grandest of which was the Phoenix Hotel...so named because it was the first to rise from the ashes of the Great Fire that nearly destroyed the city some years before. And behind that elegant veneer, laboring behind the scenes were hard-working establishments like Metzger's Livery Stable....leading road-weary horses into the comfort of a warm stall and a night's rest...exchanging them for a fresh team to pull the coach or private carriage on the next leg of the journey west. |
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Pastel on Paper 18 in x 24 in.
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Of course, the railroad would soon replace the horse-drawn stagecoach as the most efficient means of long-distance travel...and so Buffalo's stagecoach hub became obsolete. Metzger's Livery Stable and the grand Phoenix Hotel were torn down shortly after the end of the Civil War. |
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