Travel Diary of Mary Creamer, 1896-1903

Abstract

A travel diary belonging to Mary Creamer. The entries are dated from July 1896 to July 1903 and document her travels to Niagara and Boston. She visited Niagara Falls on July 24, 1896. She saw the Falls and described it as a “most wonderful and grand sight”, and also visited Three Sisters Islands and Luna Island. The following day she took a boat from Lewiston to Toronto, where she visited St. Michael’s Cathedral and Queen’s Park, which she described as “not so very pretty”. On July 26 she took a car to the Whirlpool Rapids and Gorge Route and stopped off at Devil’s Hole. She took the car back to the station and walked across the Suspension Bridge to Canada, paying the 15 cent toll. She visited Drummondville and Clifton and Queen Victoria Park, which she described as “a beautiful place with pretty flowers”. She commented that she found “Canada a very quiet and desolate place”. After her visit to Niagara, she left for Philadelphia. She ends her journal for this trip by noting that “my vacation, three weeks and one day, but enjoyed every day of the time, and saw a good many strange places and sights and thought Niagara the most wonderful of all”. In 1897, she visited Boston via steamboat. Her stops included many of the revolutionary locations, graveyards and churches, and Harvard University. In 1902, she made trips to Rumson Beach, where she toured the houses of the rich and famous, including Maude Adams, Vanderbilt, and Lord & Taylor. In 1903 she visits Pittsburgh, where she spends most of her time visiting friends.