Travel and Communication in the early days
Travel and Communication in the early days of our county were closely related. Stagecoach drivers carried messages unofficially and when stopping at the local tavern with passengers would leave or pickup parcels and letters.--First tavern in Flemington was built and operated by Samuel Fleming in 1756. In the late 1700's when the Federal Postal Service came into Flemington, the town received its first post office in 1794. The telephone had just been invented, the telegraph had been in use for 25 years and the radio wireless and R.F.D. was to come in the next of a century.

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RAILROAD
(SORRY! NO TRAIN COMING TO FLEMINGTON but 3 BRIDGES & PRINCETON JUNCTION)
Service to the country coming in the Civil War era changed considerably the life style of Hunterdon's citizens. The Branch of the C.R.R. operated several trains daily to Somerville and New York until about 1926-Flemington had 3 busy railroad offices in 1895. The conductor was John Sanderson. It was a great day in 1854 when the Jersey Central Railroad reached Phillipsburg. By 1961, when the last passenger train left Flemington Junction for New York on the Lehigh Valley, only one railroad-the Jersey Central main line-offered passenger service, and still does today. More than 200 commuters daily use the former Jersey Central with stops at High Bridge and Whitehouse Station en route to Newark, where transfer is made by PATH or former Penn Central trains to New York. Hunterdon boasts one of the few money-making railroads around today and one that is independent of NJ Transit-the Black River and Western. This started in 1965 as a tourist steam train operation between Flemington and Ringoes, over the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad on the one-time Flemington Railroad line.

AUTOMOBILES
Had begun to appear in Hunterdon before the turn of the century. By 1900, the covered bridges of the Delaware had toll rates for automobiles, both one seaters and two seaters. ---In 1909, the Flemington Board of Trade booklet proudly annonced, "fifty-two automobiles are owned in the town. Two garages are required to attend to the wants of their owners." By 1956, there was nearly 25,000 cars in Hunterdon County, and the numbers of registered motor vehicles is nearing 60,000 today. -By 1915 touring cars had 4 doors.

BUSES
Play an important role today in the county. For over 30 years now the West Hunterdon Transit Company has been giving daily express service to New York from Frenchtown and Flemington. Many commuters from this area are taking advantage of this facility. -

TODAY
the county has 100 miles of state and interstate highways, 265 miles of country roads and 753 miles of township roads.