1939 NY World's Fair - Conestoga and Open Wagons
The Transportation Zone (Zone 6)
1939 New York World's Fair
Railroads on Parade
The Conestoga and Open Wagons
The Conestoga Wagon - Circa 1840 photo 176
Open wagons and oxen were also use to traves across country.
Photo courtesy of Dave Stein, Kurt Weill Foundation, NY
The Pagent Pages Menu
Circa 1820s
1829 - The Stourbridge Lion
1829 -The Tom Thumb
1830 - The Best Friend of Charleston
1831 - The DeWitt Clinton
1832 - The Atlantic
1837 - The William Galloway
Circa 1840 - The Conestoga Wagon
1856 - The William Mason
1861 - William Crooks
1869 - The Joining of the Rails
1860s - Passenger and Baggage Car
1875 - The J K Bowker - 1875
1939 - Pullman Passenger Car
The Grand Finale
Starting around 1840 and lasting for a couple decades, the Conestoga Wagon moved men, women, and children across the Great Plains to the west coast..