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Street Railways of Trenton NJ By Barker Gummere 1986 Soft Cover Loose map
Street Railways of Trenton By Barker Gummere Includes separate fold out map AND a 6 page article by Haay Bolpe Treolley days in Trenton
Soft Cover - stapled
Copyright 1986
CONTENTS
Introduction2
Sources of Information2
Dedication3
Acknowledgements3
1. Trenton's First Street Railway: The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad4
2. The Trenton Horse Railroad5
3. The City Railway 8
4. Operations of the Two Companies: 1877-18859
5. Extensions to Trneton's Horse Railways.11
6. Preparations for Electric Operation....14
7. The Trolley Comes to Trenton16
8. 1894 - A Hectic Year18
9. Operations in the Mid-Nineties21
10. Expansion Begins23
11. The Lawrenceville-Princeton Line25
12. Operations at the Turn of the Century27
13. The Pennington-Hopewell Line30
14. The Prospect Street-Stuyvesant Avenue Line and the Downtown Loop31
15. The Trenton Junction and Hamilton Square Lines33
16. Decline and Decay: 1907-191035
17. Rehabilitation: 1911-191441
18. Financial and Other Problems:1915-191946
19. Service Improvements: 192C-192753
20. Suburban Line Abandonment: 1928-193161
21. Depression, Receivership, and Final Abandonment: 1932-193467
Horse Car Roster71
Electric Car Roster73
Roster notes75
Disposition tables81
Trenton, New Jersey's capital city since 1790, has a rich historic tradition. The first settlement of the area originally known as the "Falls of the Delaware" was made in 1679 by Mahlon Stacy, who built a grist mill on the south bank of Assunpink Creek, near what is now South Broad Street. Stacy's holdings were sold in 1714 to William Trent, who, in 1719, built a large brick home, known as "Bloomsbury Court," overlooking the Delaware River. In the next few years, the settlement on Assunpink Creek became known as "Trent's Town," later shortened to "Trenton."
Trenton played an important role in the American Revolution. General Washington's victory over the Hessian soldiers at Trenton on Christmas Night, 1776 is considered by many historians to be the turning point of the war. After the Revolution, Trenton was seriously considered as the site for the national capital, and the Continental Congress met at Trenton briefly in the fall of 1784.
Trenton's growth in the early nineteenth century was slow, but after completion of the Delaware and Raritan Canal in 1834 and the Camden and Amboy Railroad in 1838, Trenton's location on the main routes between New York City and Philadelphia began to attract industry. Two of what became Trenton's greatest industries began in the late 1840s. Peter
Cooper and Abram S. Hewitt established the Trenton Iron Co. in 1847, and John A. Roebling moved his wire-rope works to Trenton a year later. The Trenton Iron Co. later became the American Steel and Wire Division of the United States Steel Corporation and the John A. Roebling's Sons Co. was later a division of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation.
The area covered by the town of Trenton in the 1840s was small. Expansion began in 1851 when South Trenton Borough was annexed. Lamberton Village was added in 1856, and Chambersburg Borough and Millham Township on 1 May 1888, giving Trenton a population of over 50,000. Annexation of Wilbur Township on 1 March 1898 and part of Ewing Township in 1900, gave Trenton its present boundaries.
In the later history of Trenton, an important role was played by its street railways, which encouraged city growth by allowing people to live farther away than walking distance from their places of business or employment. Conversion of horse cars to electricity accelerated this trend, and led to suburban development. This history will examine Trenton's development from the opening of the first horse car route until final abandonment of electric street railway service more than seventy years later.
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