Trolley over the Chicopee River

Trolley over the Chicopee River

Holyoke Street Railway Company; Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; Urban Renewal; Community development corporations;

Trollies, run by the Holyoke Street Railway Company, were used extensively in Chicopee until the late 1930s. Shown here is one that has crossed over the Chicopee River on the Falls bridge. The bridge was wiped out in the 1938 hurricane and subsequent flood. Trolley service changed to mostly bus based transportation in Chicopee after the flood.

Chicopee Redevelopment Authority

Chicopee Historical Society; Edward Bellamy Association

Chicopee Archives Online

1930s

Photograph

One of fifty-one scanned images selected from an unknown number of photographs.

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