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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Conestoga Traction Company chart
Object ID
MG0123_Framed02
Date Range
ca. 1899
  1 document  
Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Conestoga Traction Company chart
Description
Conestoga Traction Company chart. A white-line printed chart showing the street railway companies that merged to become the Pennsylvania Traction Company in 1893 and then the Conestoga Traction Company in 1899. Framed.
Date Range
ca. 1899
Creation Date
ca. 1913
Creator
Conestoga Traction Company
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives North
Storage Wall
Side 11
Storage Cabinet
Section 03
Storage Shelf
Top Shelf
Subjects
Street-railroads
Search Terms
Brandywine Street Railway Company
Charts
Christiana and Coatesville Street Railway Company
Coatesville and Western Street Railway Company
Coatesville Rapid Transit Company
Coatesville Traction Company
Columbia and Donegal Railway Company
Columbia and Ironville Street Passenger Railway Company
Conestoga Traction Company
East End Passenger Railway Company
Elizabethtown and Florin Street Railway Company
Ephrata and Adamstown Railway Company
Lancaster and Columbia Railway Company
Lancaster and Eastern Street Railway Company
Lancaster and Lititz Electric Railway Company
Lancaster and Millersville Railroad Company
Lancaster and New Holland Railway Company
Lancaster and Quarryville Street Railway Company
Lancaster and Rocky Springs Railway Company
Lancaster and Terre Hill Street Railway Company
Lancaster City Street Railway Company
Lancaster Traction Company
Lancaster, Mechanicsburg and New Holland Railway Company
Lancaster, Petersburg and Manheim Railway Company
Lancaster, Willow Street, Lampeter and Strasburg Railway Company
New Holland, Blue Ball and Terre Hill Street Railway Company
Parkesburg and Coatesville Street Railway Company
Pennsylvania Traction Company
Rohrerstown, Landisville and Mount Joy Street Railway Company
Street railroads
Trolleys
West Chester Street Railway Company
West End Street Railway Company
Extent
1 item, 1 page to scan
Object Name
Chart
Language
English
Condition
Poor
Condition Date
2024-01-29
Condition Notes
Faded and brittle. Tears along the right side and top, left of center.
Object ID
MG0123_Framed02
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Letters patent for the consolidation of Conestoga Traction Company (MG0123_F028)
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original document may be used by appointment--please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
Copyright
This itemmay be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Accession Number
2023.055
Classification
MG0123
Description Level
Item
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For Lancaster's true trolley park, look west

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2146
Author
Corbalis, Ryan P.
Date of Publication
2011.
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Trolley lines of Columbia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1392
Author
Denney, John D.
Date of Publication
1946
line would terminate. Although the line was chartered in 1891, the company failed to take action on the proposed line, and for the time being no efforts were made to build the line to Columbia. However, in 1893, the newly formed Lancaster Traction Company became interested in the project, and in April
  1 document  
Responsibility
by John D. Denney, Jr.
Author
Denney, John D.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1946
Physical Description
[97]-111 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 50, no. 4 & 5
Subjects
Columbia and Ironville Electric Railway.
Columbia and Donegal Electric Railway.
Lancaster Traction Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Traction Company (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Conestoga Traction Company.
Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Columbia (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 50, number 4/5 (1946), p. 97-111Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.50
Documents

edit_vol50no4&5pp97_111.pdf

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