Talk:Horse and buggy

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Should this be deleted, revised, redirected, or what? Jwrosenzweig 19:31, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Lancaster County categories

I removed the Lancaster County categories because the horse and buggy is not specifically associated with those counties. If we want to put it in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, we should also put it in a ridiculous number of other county categories. My own county, for example, has at least four different Amish bishopricks, and there are other counties in Ohio with far more Amish — not to mention many places in many other states! Nyttend 16:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

As a Lancaster County native, I gotta agree -- it's a slippery slope if we include one. --Thisisbossi 23:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bicycle

"Therefore, until the popularization of the automobile, the buggy was the most common means of transport in towns and the surrounding countryside." I think the bicycle during a brief period before mass use of automobiles was probably about as popular a transport option as the horse and buggy. I'll put in some text to that effect.

I know of no evidence that suggests that the bicycle, though a significant fad in the late nineteenth-century, ever achieved the numbers that would have supplanted the buggy. At no time were bicycles "the most common means of transport" anywhere in the US. --Patchyreynolds 16:12, 1 August 2007 (UTC)