Swiss Pioneer Preservation Association has a Conestoga wagon in its museum thanks to this wagon collector who is downsizing.

The Conestoga wagon’s curved shape shifted cargo toward the center and prevented items from sliding on mountain slopes. Railroads replaced Conestoga wagons by the 1850s, but the prairie schooner, a ...

The replica, built in 1976, replaces the 1860s covered wagon that had stood there since 1963. Chastain’s father, Copper Weeks, owns the shopping center, and she and her brother run it.

A Conestoga wagon was on the road Thursday morning in downtown York as it was being moved to its home at the new York County History Center.

After 61 years of rain, wind, snow and sweltering heat that rotted its wood, broke its wheels and corroded its metal, the old covered wagon held. Cooper Weeks worried it wouldn’t. The worst-case ...

The Conestoga Wagon moved from its location at the Agriculture and Industrial Museum to the new York County History Center museum.