Stage station
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The French Post Book (Livre de Poste), published under the authority of the Government, is indispensable for persons travelling post, as it contains the exact distances from post to post, and the extra dues on entering and quitting towns (postes de faveur) which are constantly changing. It may be had in all towns, and even at the post-houses. By a law enforced throughout France since the 1st Jan. 1840, distances are no longer calculated by “postes,” but by kilometres and myriametres. 1 kilometre (i. e. 1000 metres) = nearly 5 furlongs or fths of an English mile ; 1 myriametre = 10 kilom. = nearly 6^ Eng. m. (or 6 m. 1 fur. 156 yds.) "--Hand-book for Travellers in France (1843) |
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A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a place where an exhausted horse or horses could be replaced by fresh animals. A long journey was much faster with no delay to rest horses.
Stage is the space between the places known as stations or stops — known to Europeans as posts or relays.
Organised long-distance land travel became known as staging or posting. Stagecoaches, post chaises, private vehicles, individual riders and the like followed the already long-established system for messengers, couriers and letter-carriers.
Through metonymy the name stage also came to be used for a stagecoach alone.
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