OCT. 16 ISSUE ANSWERS: This stage coach poster was printed in 1856. It lists Romeo as a stop on its route. But before 1856, Christian Clemens, founder of Mount Clemens, started a stage coach route between Detroit and Mount Clemens. This doesn’t mean that it was an easy trip for the early immigrants to Romeo. They had to travel from Mount Clemens to Indian Village later known as Romeo. The Baileys traveled from Detroit to Mount Clemens by sail boat and the Finches used oxen or walked. The John Farmer’s 1826 map of Lower Michigan notes a number of trail/roads north of Mount Clemens. An east west road followed the present Hall Road towards McDougleville (Utica.) A northerly road roughly followed North Avenue connecting with Indian Trail Road up to 32 Mile running east and west. Following this road towards the west would get you to Indian Village. The “roads” were narrow paths full of stumps, rocks, swampy areas and sometime only narrow enough for one person to walk single file. Both the Bailey and Finch families had their horses fail along this road/path. Later in Michigan plank roads were constructed by companies. Two parallel timbers were laid in ditches with 3 inch oak planks across making a wooden road. A toll of one cent for each mile per horse was charged. The wooden planks tended to rot and made for a rough ride.