Carts on the road from Myloi to Tripoli

1857 Proven

By the mid-1850s the road from Tripoli to Myloi could be used by carts. A Tripoli newspaper reported in 1858 that about ten freight carts a day travelled it, carrying goods between the landing place at Myloi and Arcadia.

Where

Junction with the Tripoli road, Tripoli, The pier and harbour

Threads

Harbour and pier, Industry and trade

Certainty

Proven confirmed by primary sources

Sources

• Βελτίωσις (Tripoli), 9-5-1857 and 1858, Hellenic Parliament Library, digital newspaper collection

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1. 1843

   A state salt depot at Myloi

   Salt was a state monopoly, and Myloi had a state salt depot (alatapothiki) from at least 1843. Its keepers were civil servants, and appointments and dismissals appear in the newspapers until at least 1877.

   ProvenIndustry and tradeRunning the village

2. 1858

   'A landing-place, with a few poor houses'

   The English scholar W. G. Clark went by boat from Nafplio to Myloi in one hour and twenty minutes, partly rowing and partly sailing. He found 'a landing-place, with a few poor houses about it', a pebble beach, quaking…

   ProvenTravellersHarbour and pierVillage life

3. March 1858

   The village councillor welcomes King Otto and Queen Amalia

   King Otto and Queen Amalia came by steamer from Nafplio to Myloi, where all the villagers met them with local music. The special councillor (ειδικός πάρεδρος) of Myloi, "Mr Loukas", had strewn the streets with myrtle and…

   ProvenRunning the villageIndustry and tradeHarbour and pier

4. 12 November 1859

   The road from Tripoli to Myloi is finished

   A Tripoli newspaper reported that the road from Tripoli to Myloi, begun in 1831, had been completed in 1859. It made Myloi the port of Arcadia until the railway came.

   ProvenHarbour and pier