[5] Frink & Walker expanded their pre-existing trail from Chicago to Galena, putting a competing Chicago-Freeport stagecoach line run by J.D.
Frink & Walker ran two daily coaches that carried mail, passengers and small parcels from Chicago to Galena.
[4] A published sketch of the Frink, Walker & Company General Stage Office in Chicago shows a Concord style coach with a four−horse hitch.
The stage office, located at Lake and Dearborn Streets as early as 1833, appeared on a map of Chicago landmarks from that year.
The stage traffic on this road was so successful that Naperville businessmen rejected the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad's request for a right–of–way because they feared the competition.
Twelve–Mile Grove Cemetery south of the village of Pecatonica has permanent wheel ruts from the stagecoach road near a utility building.
Martha Malvina Snow (Mrs. Oscar Taylor) of Freeport rode the Frink & Walker stagecoach from Chicago to join her parents in eastern Stephenson County in September 1839.
Following a supper of prairie chickens the passengers again boarded the stage at midnight and crossed the Rock River by ferry in the dark.
In the early dawn they arrived in Stephenson County, and Miss Snow left the coach at her family's log cabin several miles east of Freeport.