Le Roy, NY

7-27-2012
We got up this morning thinking we had to leave the Frost Ridge Campground and head for Niagara Falls. we were double checking our schedule and discovered we don't leave until tomorrow.It was nice to have a day to catch up. We do have trouble keeping track of the date and day of the week. I was searching Trip Adviser, which is a great app if you are traveling, to see if there was anything close to go see. I discovered two things in Le Roy. Le Roy is a town of 3500 people that use to have a lot of industry but over the last 40 years the industries have left town or gone out of business. The first one was the Le Roy House which was built in 1812.There are things in the house that date back to the 1800's. You will see all the things in the pictures.
The second item i found took us by surprise.It was the Jello Museum. We visited this museum and found out that Jello was invented in Le Roy by a carpenter in 1897who cooked things for sale during the winter months and came up with the product. He was unable to sell any of it because in the 1800's people weren't use to prepared desserts,so he sold the rights to it for $450 to Mr.Woodward. After several years Woodward had not sold any Jell-O. He was in the food business so he told his salesmen to take boxes of Jell-O and a small book that told them how to use the product and go door to door and offer people either a free box of Jell-O or the book. Some people took the Jell-O and some took the book. This started a lot of conversation in town between the ones with the Jell-O and the ones with the books. The salesmen then went to the local grocery stores and told them they better stock up on the Jell-O because the whole town was talking about it and they would be buying it. Sure enough they started buying it and Jell-O became a huge success. Two years later when Woodward died the annual sales were a million dollars. His wife and son continued the business and when they sold it in 1925 they got what would be a Billion dollars today. We also drove by the old factory.
The Jell-o Museum also had a transportation display. The last few pictures are of the campground.

Le Roy pictures
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