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- Cutter Sleigh, circa 1830 - Cutters, two-passenger sleighs, provided reliable wintertime transportation in the pre-railroad northern United States. This particular style was developed in Portland, Maine, in the 1830s and is sometimes referred to as a "Portland cutter." Given the poor condition of early American roads, travel could be easier in the cold months when ice and snow smoothed and hardened otherwise muddy routes.
- circa 1830
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Cutter Sleigh, circa 1830
Cutters, two-passenger sleighs, provided reliable wintertime transportation in the pre-railroad northern United States. This particular style was developed in Portland, Maine, in the 1830s and is sometimes referred to as a "Portland cutter." Given the poor condition of early American roads, travel could be easier in the cold months when ice and snow smoothed and hardened otherwise muddy routes.