Photo of the Week: Connecticut Valley Electric Transit Map [updated]

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Photo of the Week:  Connecticut Valley Electric Transit Map [updated]

Photo: Connecticut Valley Electric Transit Route. Drawn by Ernest Sherman (1905).

Thanks to Hetty Startup and the Archives Department at the Forbes Library in Northampton for providing this copy of this historic Connecticut Valley Electric Transit Map dating to 1905. More information on this map here.

View a high resolution version of this image, courtesy of the Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts, using this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KEfXwmZcKoWPmvEb06TEXF64UogqXzls/view?usp=sharing


Read more about the history of electric trolleys in Amherst here.


Our feature, Photo of the Week, presents each week, a new picture by a local photographer. We invite local photographers to share their photographs here.   Please include a description/caption and an indication of who is to be credited.

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1 thought on “Photo of the Week: Connecticut Valley Electric Transit Map [updated]

  1. Interesting — the map appears to show a Northampton/Amherst line on what could only be Route 9.

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