Mohr's Corners

Road travel in the mid nineteenth century could best be described as crude. At its worst, it was horrible. In those early days, what passed for roads were often nothing more than narrow, swampy, log-strewn trails where horses' feet would frequently become entangled in the dense foliage Winter travel was even more difficult since the roads were simply not usable unless the snow was hard and densely packed. Accidents were frequent and stagecoaches could rarely travel more than a few kilometres per day.

As stage travel became more commonplace, small outpost communities grew up around the inns and hotels. Mohr's Corners began as a small stopover community that offered welcome respite to the many exhausted and injured travellers who dared to make a difficult stagecoach journey from one point to another.