Where today we have the 18-wheeler, the Conestoga wagon once ruled the road, ... Visitors can stop by a take in this piece of Americana in the first-floor lobby until January 2, 2013.

With its six majestic horses drawing the wagon whose white top dipped in the center and flared out over the ends making it look like an old-fashioned lady’s bonnet, the Conestoga wagon was the ...

A fully rigged Conestoga wagon was a union of graceful craftsmanship and rugged utility. With running gear painted vermilion, sides a bright blue and topped with white canvas on graceful bows ...

Conestoga wagon led 2-mile parade in 1938. Peggy Mershon. Follow a conestoga wagon long enough, and you find yourself walking beside some famished college boys down a Mansfield street in 1938.

The Conestoga wagon’s curved shape shifted cargo toward the center and prevented items from sliding on mountain slopes. Railroads replaced Conestoga wagons by the 1850s, but the prairie schooner, a ...

What story lies behind the Conestoga wagon at the center of Carroll County’s official seal? I was definitely in the dark for years and now am ashamed that my lack of county history was to blame ...

Conestoga wagons were the 18-wheelers of their time, the kings of the road, writes Roger B. White, who is in charge of the National Museum of American History’s road transportation collection.

The replica, built in 1976, replaces the 1860s covered wagon that had stood there since 1963. Chastain’s father, Copper Weeks, owns the shopping center, and she and her brother run it.