Wayside Inn / Posada Wayside

George Severson, born in 1766 and a grandson of Jurrian Severson, one of the area's first settlers, built the Wayside Inn about 1785 along the wagon track that is now Main Street. Approximately halfway between the farms of Schoharie and the Albany markets, it became an essential stagecoach stop, with large stables and barns behind the inn providing respite for horse teams. The area's first post office, West Guilderland, opened at the inn on December 24, 1829. After the Schoharie Plank Road was built a mile east in 1849, traffic was diverted away and the inn eventually closed. It later became a private residence and was demolished in 1956, when it was replaced by a gas station.

Altamont, New York · United States