 This route followed the alignment of Route 287 , making stops in Middlebury Center , Holliday , Willardsburg and Mitchell 's Creek before ending in Lawrenceville . This mail route was truncated back to Willardsburg in 1840 , when the nearby Corning and Blossburg Railroad was completed . The stagecoach lines started working along the three @-@ day process for about ten years , when the nearby Tioga and Wellsboro Plank Road was completed , which made stagecoaches run daily . Along with numerous competition , the service was discontinued in 1872 , when the Lawrenceville and Wellsboro Railroad was completed . At that time , the stagecoach lines has ceased operation . By 1883 , the only piece of mail routes in the area of Tioga County was a piece near Middlebury Center , but was not as large as the process once was . 
