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Travel Schedule for 1839 Via Oswego

  Oswego County Whig Tuesday, July 9, 1839       The Oswego Route. - 45 hours through from New York to Buffalo, by the way of Oswego. -    By the present arrangements of the lines between New York and Buffalo, via Oswego, the time occupied in traveling is 42 hours. Passengers leaving NewYork at 7 o’clock A.M. arrive at Albany in 10 hours; leave Albany in the evening train of cars and reach Syracuse in time for breakfast the next morning - from thence take the packet or post coaches, and arrive at this place at 3 or 4 o’clock, or in time  to meet the steamboats bound for Lewiston, where they arrive at about 4 4 o’clock the following morning From Lewiston by railroad and steamboat to Buffalo in 2 or 4 hours                                                                    ...
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Zachary Taylor's Visit to Oswego and Syracuse

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                 Zachary Taylor as a major general during the Mexican War.                                                            (White House Historical Association)   Syracuse Star Wednesday, September 5, 1849   The President. - By the last accounts from Niagara, we learn that the President is at the Eagle Hotel, and daily improving. What will add, probably to his more speedy restoration, is the presence of his wife and daughter, tom, if we may be permitted to say so, should not have left behind him on any account. There is nothing like the presence of women by the sick couch. It often dispels disease and makes the sufferer well. May it be so with his EXCELLENCY.  Syracuse Star Thursday, September 6, 1849           The President.  ...
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Water Route on Lake Ontario

  Oswego County Whig, Oswego, N.Y. Tuesday, July 16, 1839    There is a somewhat different route, and a very good one, which is perhaps preferable at present to the inland one, and which those traversing our State for a second time, or who have no special inducements to pass through the heart of New York, will do well to take. It is that by Niagara Falls and Oswego.   You step aboard a Railroad car at 9 or 10 in the morning at Buffalo; are whirled to Niagara (22 miles) in an hour and a half; visit the Great Cataract, and dine; are off at 2 by Railroad to Lewiston; a steamboat of the first class is waiting to take you to Oswego, where you are landed early the next morning, and find stages and a canal packet soliciting the honor of your company to Utica, where the stages arrive that night, and the packet in ample season for the first cars to Albany.   You thus leave Buffalo at a late hour in the morning, view Niagara, sleep comfortably on Lake Ontario the first ni...
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Captain William Vaughan and the steamboat Martha Ogden

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   Captain William Vaughan   (Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 by Benson J. Lossing)          The old Vaughan home at Sackets Harbor.      Monuments  to  Captain Vaughan and his wife in Lakeside Cemetery, Sackets Harbor.  (caption) Painting of first battle of Sackets Harbor Captain William Vaughan and the Steamboat Martha Ogden by Richard F. Palmer    Captain William Vaughan was born at Vicksburg, (also spelled Vixburg)  Pennsylvania on August 15, 1775,  son of Richard and Ellen Vaughan. They later lived in Wyalusing,  Pennsylvania. The family eventually moved to Oswego and  Sackets Harbor. William became one the earliest sailing masters on Lake Ontario. He also became a hero of the first battle of Sackets Harbor that occurred on July 19,1812. The house still stands on East Main Street.  He died in Sackets Harbor December 10, 1857 at the age of 81, leaving a widow, Abbey ...
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