November 20, 1884   I have not seen anything to document it but I believe Sam would have taken the Newburgh to Beacon Ferry to access the Hudson River train to New York.

Like his Gramercy Park, Samuel Ruggles's Union Square was an elegant residential enclave with four-story mansions and a park surrounding an iron-fenced park. In 1853 a first-class hotel, the Everett House, appeared among the private residences.

The hotel was five stories tall with four stories of brick sitting on a rusticated stone base. High end shops opened onto the Fourth Avenue (later renamed Park Avenue South) side. Above the columned portico, a stack of grouped, Palladian inspired openings directed the eye upward to a gently arched pediment.

November 14, 1884

Email from Barbara Schmidt: 26 Feb. 2015 

"As to Brockton, MA -- I did find a reference to a letter SLC wrote to Pond complaining that the Brockton venue had not been advertised sufficiently, and thus had a low turn out."

Historic 1876 Boston and Maine Railroad Depot in Lowell, Massachusetts. Also known as the Boston and Maine Railroad Terminal and the Central Street Station. The High Victorian Gothic style building only served as a railroad station until 1895. Later, the former railroad station was occupied by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Owl Theatre and the Rialto Theatre.

The building became part of the Lowell National Historical Park in 1989 and was restored over a fifteen year period.

Union Station describes two distinct defunct train stations in Providence, Rhode Island.

Springfield's Grand Union Station was constructed in 1926 by the Boston & Albany Railroad to replace an earlier Richardson Romanesque unique dual-station by Shepley Rutan and Coolidge, the successor firm to that of noted American architect, H. H.

This site, known as Horseshoe or Horseshoe Creek, served as the last station in Division Two of the Pony Express. Division Superintendent Joseph A. Slade lived at Horseshoe Creek with his wife, Molly, and family. (NPS)

Whatcom is the original name for the city of Bellingham. The name of Bellingham is derived from the bay on which the city is situated. George Vancouver, who visited the area in June 1792, named the bay for Sir William Bellingham, the controller of the storekeeper's account of the Royal Navy. Prior to Euro-American settlement, this was in the homeland of Coast Salish peoples of the Lummi and neighboring tribes. The first Caucasian settlers reached the area in 1854. In 1858, the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush caused thousands of miners, storekeepers, and scalawags to head north from California.