Identifier: trolleyexploring00chil (find matches)
Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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32 Trolley Exploring. The routes to Coney Island, Fort Hamilton, Bath, Ber-gen, Manhattan and Brighton Beaches and Cacne^rsie, take the trolley traveler through a land some 7 miles square that tenyears ago was sleepy farm land, dotted with tiny villages, but nowhas risen into rapidly growing suburbs full of life. From Pros-pect Pa.rk and Greenwood Cemetery, 7 miles from the oceanshore, the actual city has crept very nearly half way down. All
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MARKET WAGONS ON THE MERRICK ROAD NEAR JAMAICA. this flat and level plain is historic, though few landmarks nowremain. In this vicinity were the first Dutch settlements ofBrooklyn. To a greater degree than any other district about hereFlatle^nds has kept up her primitive life. Yet this is fast going. Separated from the maze of connecting lines that but join andpatch the great system together the most interesting of the throughtrolley routes of Long Island are: ROUTE 15. To Fort Hamilton from Third avenueand Sixty-fifth street, through Bay Ridge. This starting point is to be reached, as stated above, also fromHamilton Avenue Ferry (Whitehall street, New York), and byconnecting trolley cars over the Bridge. A 5-cent fare. One of the The Long Island Field. 33 prettiest of the shorter runs. The way leads through BayRidge, down Third avenue, shaded by superb old trees. Thereare fine views of New York Bay and the Narrows. FortHamilton, the terminus, is 8.J- miles from New York City Hall. Th

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