- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Postcard of several men standing around a streetcar after an ice storm, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia, 1909]
- Date of Original:
- 1909
- Subject:
- Cable cars (Streetcars)--Georgia--Gainesville
Disasters--Georgia--Gainesville
Municipal services--Georgia--Gainesville
Cities and towns--Georgia--Gainesville
Transportation--Georgia--Gainesville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Gainesville, winter 1909. Men standing beside a streetcar on North Green Street during an ice storm. This enclosed winter car ran from the Southern Railway depot at the end of Main Street to Chattahoochee Park at the end of Riverside Drive. Streetcars pulled by horses first made their appearance in Gainesville in 1874. Dr. Robert E. Green was the proprietor of this enterprise. The tracks ran from the Southern Railway depot on Main Street to the public square. The first streetcars to run on electric rails were seen in 1903. Over the years the lines were expanded. In 1928 some of the tracks in the business district were taken up. During World War II the rest of them were removed so that the materials could be used in the war effort.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_hal238
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:hal238
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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