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LONG ISLAND CARRIAGE MUSEUM

Visitors are treated to eight fully decorated first-class galleries depicting transportation life before heated seats, air conditioning, and speedy, comfortable and dust-free vehicles became today's norm, and when we talk about horsepower, it literally means the number of horses that would pull you along. So step back in time when these horse-drawn vehicles dotted the streets of a 19th Century New York City and the Gold Coast of Long Island, powered English coaches, Europe's royal carriages and more.

An artistic representation of one of the brightly colored crochetet rounds, called "yarn bombing," wrapping the museum's trees.

The "Grace Darling" is a beautiful 19th Century Omnibus or barge means of public transportation.

This horse-drawn carriage that could carry multiple passengers.

This Omnibus was built by the Concord Carriage Company, Concord, New Hampshire.

Wells Fargo Coach (1868-1870). Built by the Abbot-Downing & Co., Concord, New Hampshire, passengers paid $275 to travel from Sacramento to Omaha.

Owned by prosperous landowner, G. Howland Leavitt of Bayside, Queens, this Market Wagon carried everything from farm produce to manufactured goods.

Left: G. Howland Leavitt's Market Wagon.
Right: Buckboard Surrey (1895-1905).

Buckboard Surrey (1895-1905). Built by Jouberet & White, Glens Falls, New York. No millionaire's carriage house was complete without one.

Vis-Ã-Vis Sleigh.

The ideal transportation over snowy roads.

Mail Wagon (1900-1910). Built by Hanford Wagon Works, Unidilla, New York, postal service began during the carriage age.

Skeleton Wagon.

This lightweight vehicle was developed for trotting races.

Coupe Rockaway (1871).

Named after the village of Rockaway, Queens, New York, then a fashionable beach community, this family vehicle was built by A.S. Flandrau, New York City.

American Gig or Riding Chair (1760-80).

Chariot D'Orsay (1875-1885).

This elegant carriage was built by Million & Guiet of France.