(03-27-2015, 09:04 AM)HerbS Wrote: I just found out today that Lincoln's Funeral Train will have a quick stop in Fairport,NY a suburb of Rochester,NY this summer.Does anyone have have more information about that stop?
Herb, I can tell you that the train came through Fairport at about 2:51 A.M. on the early morning of April 27, 1865. It had stopped in Palmyra for about 10 minutes, and there was a brief memorial service at that location at 2:15 A.M.
There were crowds carrying torches, singing hymns, and wearing mourning badges at Macedon and Fairport, but I don't think the train stopped at either village. It arrived in Rochester at 3:20 A.M.
I used Scott Trostel's book for this, and there is no mention that the train made a definite stop in Fairport.
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