1921 – Hagenbeck-Wallace Route Book
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 1921
| April 30 – Louisville, Kentucky May 1 – Sunday 2-3 – Cincinnati, Ohio 4 – Middletown, Ohio 5 – Dayton, Ohio 6 – Columbus, Ohio 7 – Logan, Ohio 8 – Sunday 9 – Charleston, West Virginia 10 – Huntington, West Virginia 11 – Parkersburg, West Virginia 12 – Fairmount, West Virginia 13 – Uniontown, Pennsylvania 14 – Charleroi, Pennsylvania 15 – Sunday 16 – McKeesport, Pennsylvania 17 – Butler, Pennsylvania 18 – Grove City, Pennsylvania 19 – Erie, Pennsylvania 20 – Ashtabula, Pennsylvania 21 – Sharon, Pennsylvania 22 – Sunday 23 – Wheeling, West Virginia 24 – Alliance, Ohio 25 – Massillon, Ohio 26 – Elyria, Ohio 27 – Toledo, Ohio 28 – Adrian, Michigan 29 – Sunday 30-31 – Detroit, Michigan June 1 – Port Huron, Michigan 2 – Pontiac, Michigan 3 – Owosso, Michigan 4 – Muskegon, Michigan 5 – Sunday 6 – Grand Rapids, Michigan 7 – Alma, Michigan 8 – Saginaw, Michigan 9 – Flint, Michigan 10 – Lansing, Michigan 11 – Jackson, Michigan 12 – Sunday 13 – Fort Wayne, Indiana 14 – Elkart, Indiana 15 – South Bend, Indiana 16 – Hammond, Indiana 17 – Joliet, Illinois 18 – Aurora, Illinois 19 – Sunday 20 – Rockford, Illinois 21 – Janesville, Wisconsin 22 – Beloit, Wisconsin 23 – Freeport, Illinois 24 – Clinton, Illinois 25 – Sterling, Illinois 26 – Sunday 27 – Rock Island, Illinois 28 – Muscatine, Iowa 29 – Ottumwa, Iowa 30 – Cedar Rapids, Iowa July 1 – Marshalltown, Iowa 2 – Waterloo, Iowa 3 – Sunday 4 – Des Moines, Iowa 5 – Rockwell City, Iowa 6 – Spencer, Iowa 7 – Sioux Falls, South Dakota 8 – Sioux City, Iowa 9 – Fremont, Nebraska 10 – Sunday 11 – Omaha, Nebraska 12 – Shenandoah, Iowa 13 – St. Joseph, Missouri 14 – Atchinson, Kansas 15 – Topeka, Kansas 16 – Lawrence, Kansas 17 – Kansas City, Missouri (Sunday) 18 – Kansas City, Missouri 19 – Ottawa, Kansas 20 – Chanute, Kansas 21 – Pittsburg, Kansas 22 – Fort Scott, Kansas 23 – Parson, Kansas 24 – Sunday 25 – Tulsa, Oklahoma 26 – Cushing, Oklahoma 27 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 28 – Enid, Oklahoma 29 – Arkansas City, Kansas 30 – Eldorado, Kansas 31 – Sunday |
August 1 – Wichita, Kansas 2 – Hutchinson, Kansas 3 – Salina, Kansas 4 – Junction City, Kansas 5 – Concordis, Kansas 6 – Hastings, Nebraska 7 – Sunday 8 – Council Bluffs, Iowa 9 – Creston, Iowa 10 – Chariton, Iowa 11 – Centerville, Iowa 12 – Fort Madison, Iowa 13 – Galesburg, Illinois 14 – Sunday 15 – Peoria, Illinois 16 – Clinton, Illinois 17 – Litchfield, Illinois 18 – Centralia, Illinois 19 – Herrin, Illinois 20 – Belleville, Illinois 21 – Sunday 22 – East St. Louis, Illinois 23 – Taylorville, Illinois 24 – Pontiac, Illinois 25 – Kankakee, Illinois 26 – Hoopston, Illinois 27 – Noblesville, Indiana 28 – Sunday 29 – Findlay, Ohio 30 – Sandusky, Ohio 31 – Tiffin, Ohio September 1 – Sidney, Ohio 2 – New Castle, Indiana 3 – Connersville, Indiana 4 – Sunday 5 – Muncie, Indiana 6 – Bluffton, Indiana 7 – Frankfort, Indiana 8 – Paris, Illinois 9 – Pana, Illinois 10 – Monticello, Illinois 11 – Sunday 12 – Keokuk, Iowa 13 – Burlington, Iowa 14 – Hannibal, Missouri 15 – Mexico, Missouri 16 – Marshall, Missouri 17 – Lexington, Missouri 18-19 – Kansas City, Kansas 20 – Paola, Kansas (afternoon only) 21 – Springfield, Missouri 22 – Monett, Missouri 23 – Fayetteville, Arkansas 24 – Fort Smith, Arkansas 25 – Sunday 26 – Paris, Texas 27 – Greenville, Texas 28 – Dallas, Texas 29 – Corsicana, Texas 30 – Waxahachie, Texas October 1 – Ft. Worth, Texas 2 – Sunday 3 – Wichita Falla, Texas 4 – Stamford, Texas 5 – Abilene, Texas 6 – Sweetwater, Texas 7 – San Angelo, Texas 8 – Brownwood, Texas 9 – Sunday 10 – Waco, Texas 11 – Temple, Texas 12 – Taylor, Texas 13 – Austin, Texas 14 – San Antonio, Texas 15 – Victoria, Texas 16 – Sunday 17 – Houston, Texas 18 – Beaumont, Texas 19 – Lake Charles, Louisianna 20 – Opelousas, Louisianna (afternoon only) 21 – Baton Rouge, Louisianna 22-23 – New Orleans, Louisianna 23 – New Orleans, Louisianna (Sunday) 24 – Houma, Louisianna (evening only) 25 – Morgan City, Louisianna 26 – New Iberia, Louisianna 27 – Crowley, Louisianna 28 – La Fayette, Louisianna 29 – Alexandria, Louisianna 30 – Sunday 31 – Monroe, Louisianna November 1 – McGehee, Arkansas 2 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas 3 – Little Rock, Arkansas End of season |
Run home: Little Rock, Arkansas to Cairo, Illinois, 280 miles; Cairo, Illinois to Mt. Carmel, Illinois, 135 miles; Mt. Carmel, Illinois to West Baden, Indiana, 80 miles. Total home run, 495 miles. Total miles traveled, including home run 11,600. Average miles per day, including home run, 72 miles.
Season opened April 30, at Louisville, Kentucky, closed at Little Rock, Arkansas, November 3rd, making a total of 26 weeks and 5 days; actual show days of season – 164 – which included three Sundays. Seventeen states were visited. Time of going to press, no days lost, but three one show dates, Paola, Kansas, Opelousas and Houma, Louisiana, and one parade, Toledo, Ohio.
Courtesy of the Circus Historical Society, Inc.
