Getting to Chester wasn't fast or easy. Just getting to Boston or New York might take several days. Then a 24-hour trip by steamboat to Halifax, and either a second boat on to Chester, or a seven to eight hour stagecoach ride overland. Industrialists, bankers, doctors and Ivy League professors first came for the hunting and unrivalled sport fishing. They returned with their entire families to holiday for a few weeks at the local inns and hotels. And they continued to come back to Chester year after year.