This
paper offers a close look at how U.S. families were learning to enjoy their
leisure time in the 1890s, leisureliness being a luxury that citizens of the early and mid-19
Th Century, for the most part, were not able to experience. In this paper, the amusement parks of the late 19th Century are reviewed - as to what they offered and how
people responded to them. The paper also covers the events of the
times, important people of the times, as a way to put American leisure experiences into historical context.