Hi My Dad spent his young life around horses and he drove a lot of them. I asked him once how fast does a horse go? He said " about 4 miles an hour. As Oberlin and Amherst are about 5 miles from Elyria I would say a about 1 1/2 hours. Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: <Naberssj@aol.com> To: <OHLORAIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: [OHLORAIN] Re: 1850s travel around Lorain Co. > Travel between Oberlin and Elyria in 1852 would have likely been done in what > manner--train, buggy, etc? How long would it have taken? Same question > between Amherst and Elyria about 1870s. > Sarah > > > ==== OHLORAIN Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for OHLORAIN Mailing List > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >