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==Changing Attitudes in the 19th Century==
What perhaps changed the perception of the vacation was the railroad. In the 1830s, the United States began to build railroads, initially just outside of cities such as New York and Boston, that people began to use on their days off from work to venture beyond confines of their towns. Perhaps among the earliest destinations were coastal beaches on the East Coast and soon in the South. Coney Island, just outside of New York, became among the first places that catered to vacationing individuals. The railroad, powered by steam engines, helped to vacationers usually for very short stays, perhaps no more than a few days, and sometimes even shorter. Nevertheless, this became the fist form of mass vacationing in the United States.
==The Twentieth Century==
