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