On the Following the Equator tour, Twain made port here on Wednesday September 11, 1895. They spent had a dinner on land and visited with "the head of the state" then made sail again.

Edwin L. Drake, an out-of-work conductor for the New Haven Railroad, went to Titusville in December of 1857 to deal with financial problems associated with the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company of Connecticut, soon to be the Seneca Oil Company in 1858.

Oil had been coming from a spring on Oil Creek that was used to lubricate machinery and provide smoky light. The technology for producing kerosene from crude oil was been developed and the crude from Titusville was thought to be valuable for this purpose.

An interview in Winnipeg provides an example of the issue of traveling on the Sabbath. a recurring problem in Twain's travels  This is the subject of Mark Twain and Sunday Streetcars: An Interview in Winnipeg by Taylor Roberts.  The interviewer was Marie Jousaye for the Toronto Globe, 10 August 1895 and is included in Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews.

"150 years ago, on February 23, 1869, a young Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name “Mark Twain,” came to Trenton. He drew a crowd to the Taylor Opera House on South Broad Street where he gave a speech on the topic of his then-recent trip to Europe and the Holy Land. At age 34, Mark Twain was just beginning to make a name for himself at the start of his great literary career.  "    Mark Twain in Trenton

The city was historically a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the political and intellectual centre of the Risorgimento that led to the unification of Italy, as well as the birthplace of notable individuals who contributed to it, such as Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour.

Archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tseil-Waututh (Burrard) peoples of the Coast Salish group. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey and near the mouth of the Fraser River.

Because of Vicksburg's location on the Mississippi River, it built extensive trade from the prodigious steamboat traffic in the 19th century. It shipped out cotton coming to it from surrounding counties and was a major trading city in West Central Mississippi.

Sam Clemens' first visit was in February of 1854.  He returned again in 1867.

November 24 & 25, 1884: Twain and Cable stayed in Washington D.C. the nights of the 24th and 25th, leaving for Philadelphia the morning of the 26th. 

February 28, 1885