George Jones Adams (1811-1880), leader of the 35 New England families ... began operating at a time when tourism to the Holy Land, especially from America and Europe, was beginning en masse.
He joined the Third Crusade to the Holy Land but returned to England when he heard of his father's death in 1189. Later in 1192 while travelling back from the Crusades through Austria (after his ship ...
stretched from stretched from India, in South Asia, to Spain, in Western Europe, and included Jerusalem and the Holy Land close Holy LandPlaces around Israel and Palestine connected to the birth ...