Memories of the Calls 18 - Visit to Boston and The Centennial

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The most of our social activities during our early years and until I went to Le Roy to school were connected with church and Sunday school, at Morganville. There were many socials, the annual picnic and Christmas tree. We boys were kept too busy for ball or other games away from home. When I was about eight sister Lizzie and I went to Boston with mother and visited relatives there. We went in a day coach and rode all night.

My next trip away from home was to the Centennial, in Philadelphia, in 1876. This was the first great and the greatest of our Expositions. Its effect was notable on those who attended it and upon the nation as a whole, and also upon foreign lands.


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Patty's notes on this entry

Charles Joslin Call would have been 8 in 1867. While I don't know the exact route they took to Boston - the trip was by train. Starting in 1867, various railroads started merging to become the Boston and Albany Railroad, which at the time was longest point-to-point railroad in the country. To get to Albany, the family likely took the New York Central Railroad from Batavia, through Rochester to Albany.

Presumably they visited Charlotte Joslin Call's brother William and his family, and her sister Ann Joslin Jones and her family.

The Centennial Exposition, the first world's fair held in the United States, took place from May 10 - November 10, 1876 in Philadelphia's Fairmont Park. Over 10,000,000 people visited the Exposition while it was open. Among the exhibits the Calls may have seen were the arm and torch for the Statue of Liberty



The Exhibition Hall



The Horticultural Hall



The Women's Pavillion




Like they did on their trip to Boston, the family traveled by train to Philadelphia for the Exposition. There were several railway lines from Western New York through Harrisburg and on to Philadelphia, so it is likely they took one of those.

This map shows the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and connecting lines in 1876.





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