Inveja de Tocqueville
"Travels: May 9, 1831 - February 20, 1832
April 2, 1831Tocqueville and Beaumont leave Le Havre, France on the ship Havre
May 9
Arrive in Newport after 37 days at sea
May 10
Leave Newport for New York City
May 11
Arrive in New York; stay at a boarding house located at 66 Broadway
May 29
Travel to Ossining, NY to visit Sing Sing Prison
June 7
Take a steamboat back to New York City, stopping in "Greenbugh on the Hudson" along the way
June 30
Leave New York City by sloop for Yonkers
July 1
Leave Yonkers by steamboat; stop in Peekskill long enough to go hike "Anthony's Nose"; board the steamboat North America headed for Albany
July 4
Attend Independence Day parade and then leave Albany late at night by stage
July 5
Arrive in Utica
July 7
Leave Syracuse on horseback; stay near Fort Brewerton
July 8
Leave Fort Brewerton; explore Frenchman's Island
July 9
Travel to Auburn; visit the Auburn prison
July 12
Visit NY Gov. Enos Throop at his farmhouse
July 16
Travel by horseback to Canandaigua
July 17
Visit Ontario County's almshouse
July 18
Travel from Canandaigua to Bufflalo, stopping in Batavia along the way
July 19
Leave Buffalo for Detroit via steamboat Ohio
July 20
Stop (briefly) at Erie, PA
July 21
Stop (briefly) at Cleveland
July 22
Arrive in Detroit and leave shortly thereafter on horseback for Pontiac
July 24
Leave Pontiac enroute to Saginaw
July 26
Saginaw
July 28
Leave Saginaw
July 29
Arrive in Pontiac
July 31
Arrive in Detroit
August 1
Leave Detroit on steamboat Superior for Sault Ste. Marie, Mackinac and Green Bay
August 2
Stop at Fort Gratiot on Lake Huron; stay anchored for two days due to inclement weather
August 4
Leave Fort Gratiot
August 5
Arrive at Saulte St. Marie
August 6
Take a canoe to Pointe aux Pins at the beginning of Lake Huron
August 7
Arrive in Mackinac; leave late at night for Green Bay
August 9
Arrive in Green Bay
August 10
Leave Green Bay and return to Michilimackinac
August 13
Leave Mackinac
August 14
Arrive in Detroit on the Superior
August 17
Arrive in Buffalo by steamboat
August 18 & 19
Visit Niagara Falls
August 20
Travel on Lake Ontario aboard another steamboat, the Great Britain, enroute to Montreal
August 23
Arrive in Montreal
August 24
Leave Montreal on the steamboat John Molson enroute to Quebec
August 27
Visit the village of Lorette, near Quebec
August 29
Visit the village of Beaufort, near Quebec
August 31
Leave Quebec aboard the steamboat Richelieu for Montreal
September 2
Leave Montreal by steamboat Voyageur for La Prairie; travel by carriage to St. Jean; then board the steamboat Phoenix for travel on Lake Champlain
September 4
Arrive in Whitehall
September 4-5
Travel by stage to Albany
September 7
Leave Albany for Boston/Stop in Stockbridge, MA
September 9
Arrive in Boston for a three-week stay; stay at the Marlboro Hotel on Washington Street before moving to the luxury Tremont Hotel
October 3
Leave Boston by stagecoach for Hartford, CT
October 5
Visit the New Connecticut State Prison at Wethersfield
October 8
Leave Hartford via steamboat for New York
October 11
Leave New York City by steamboat and stage for Philadelphia
October 12
Arrive in Philadelphia for a two-week stay; during this time, Tocqueville made eight visits to Eastern State Penitentiary in Cherry Hill where he interviewed each of the prisoners individually
October 28
Travel to Baltimore from Philadelphia
November 6
Return to Philadelphia
November 22
Travel by stagecoach to Pittsburgh - a 72-hour journey over the Allegheny Mountain range
November 25
Leave Pittsburgh on the steamboat Fourth of July enroute for Cincinnati
November 26
During the night, the Fourth of July hits a rock on the Burlington Bar near Wheeling, VA (now West Virginia)
November 27
The boat is rescued by another steamboat, the William Parsons
December 1
Arrive in Cincinnati
December 4
Leave Cincinnati via steamboat
December 5
The Ohio River freezes, forcing the passengers to disembark in Westport, KY and walk 22 miles to Louisville
December 7
Leave for Nashville, TN, a two-day journey
December 11
Leave Nashville in an open, one-horse carriage for Memphis
December 12
The carriage breaks down and can barely be fixed. Tocqueville is very ill, so the two stay in Sandy Bridge
December 15
Leave Sandy Bridge via stagecoach for Memphis
December 17
Arrive in Memphis
December 25
Travel down the Mississippi on the steamboatLouisville
December 26-27
Steamboat is stranded for about two days on a sandbar
January 1, 1832
Arrive in New Orleans
January 3
Travel on a steamboat enroute to Mobile, AL; then spend 12 days traveling by way of various stagecoaches across Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina to reach Norfolk, VA
January 15
Arrive in Norfolk, VA
January 16
Leave Norfolk for Washington, DC traveling by steamboat up the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River
January 17
Arrive in Washington
January 19
Meet with President Andrew Jackson
January 20
Visit to the U.S. Capitol - both the Senate and the House of Representatives
February 3
Leave DC via stage for Philadelphia via stage
February 5
Leave Philadelphia for New York City
February 6
Arrive in New York City
February 20
Leave New York City for Havre, France, aboard the Havre"
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