How would you want to travel?

Mouse over the carriage doors to see how people traveled in Weston years ago!

Scroll right following the arrows to see more. You can ride a horse or take a sleigh, a car, or even a pung like the ones that children used to ride to school in the winter.

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• The Kenney children are pictured here with their bicycles.

• Eva Warren and Helen Cutting try out Percy Warren's first automobile.

• In the winter, groups traveled in a pung, a large horse-drawn sleigh.

• Herbert Merriam, popularly known as "Grandpa," rides in a two-person sleigh.

• General Paine's youngest daughter, Georgina, is pictured here with her horse, Harlequin, in 1901.

• This 1909 photograph shows Helen Paine driving the car that her father, John Bryant Paine, built for his children.

• Goats named Nip and Tuck pull Margaret, Linda, and Virginia Wellington. The Wellingtons were not the only ones to have a goat cart!

• Bigger families, like the Winsors, had four-person horse-drawn sleighs.

• Members of the Hubbard family enjoy a carriage ride in the country in the 1880s.

• The boy in this photo is riding an early type of bicycle called a "dicycle."

• Here are the Fiske children with their pony cart.