- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- Washington Street, North, Gainesville, Ga.
- Date of Original:
- 1906
- Subject:
- Cable cars (Streetcars)--Georgia--Gainesville
Hotels--Georgia--Gainesville
Architecture--Georgia--Gainesville
Business--Georgia--Gainesville
Cities and towns--Georgia--Gainesville
Transportation--Georgia--Gainesville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Gainesville, 1906. Looking north along Washington Street. The structure in the left foreground is the porch of the Hudson House whose name was changed in 1912 to the Hotel Princeton. In 1959 it was torn down and since 1960 the F. W. Woolworth Co. has occupied the site. Note the streetcar. 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 electric cars 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_hal335
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:hal335
- 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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