Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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tractive country homes inwhat they considered a most desirable location and to controlsufficient property to forever insure the permanency of their plansagainst intrusion. These men organized themselves into what isknown as the Larchmont Manor Co., which platted the land for asuburban place of residence by laying it out into regular-sized lotsand by imposing certain restrictions in every deed of conveyance. Towards the end of 1872, the plans of the Larchmont Manor Cohad so far matured as to suggest the construction of a line ofhorse railroad from the New Haven railroad station to the sound,a distance of about one mile. A small wooden railroad station had been built in 1853 on theeast side of the railroad bridge, by an association of gentlemencalling themselves the Chatsworth Land Co. This little buildingstanding in the unrelieved loneliness of the Chatsworth woods,excited the derision of passengers on the New Haven railroadtrains for many years, because lack of patronage prevented the
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-ruWEK STATION, CAR HOUSES AND OFFICES, PORT CHESTER. 20 miles extending from Larchmont on the west to Stamford on thecast and passing through the townships of Mamaroneck, Harrison,and Rye, and the villages of Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Ryeand Port Chester, all in the county of Westchester, N. Y. InConnecticut it traverses the township of Greenwich in the coimtyof Fairfield and connects the villages of East Port Chester, Green-wich, Cos Cob, Riverside and Sound Beach. Touching as it does the old Post Road, over which our fore-fathers had to make the three or four days journey by horsewhen they wished to go from New York to Boston, this electricroad marks the result of a most interesting evolution of transporta-tion by means of public conveyances from the early coaching daysto the present period of rapid transit by means of electric power. As this road runs through a section of the country which notonly abounds in picturesque scenery, but also in landmarks andreminiscences of con

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