Online Collection |
|
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives,
We, the undersigned residents of the "Old Street" in this
town of Deerfield, hereby petition that the bill to in-
corporate the Greenfield and Deerfield Street Railway
Company be passed without the proposed amend-
ment prohibiting the building of said road upon
Deerfield Street.
1 Charles Jones |
19 Arthur W. Ball |
2 Charles H. Ashley |
20 O. W. Cook |
3 Theodore Childs |
21 F. E. Everett |
4 Edw. C. Cowles |
22 A.W. Bartlett |
5 David Henry |
23 Arthur J. Hawks |
6 John F. Carlile |
24 Thomas Kennedy |
7 William P Saxton |
25 William [Mehan] |
8 B. M. Wentworth |
26 Geo. S. Everett |
9 William M. Kelleen |
27 Bert L. Brown |
10 Frank A. Kenedy |
28 George J Slocomb |
11 J. E. Lamb |
29 G. F. Everett |
12 Edward Newton |
30 William J. Taylor |
13 H. L. Childs |
31 Frank Nims |
14 M. F. Childs |
32 Geo. W. Fuller |
15 H. E. Warron |
33 [Miss] F. E. Stebbins |
16 Edward J. Everett |
34 [Mrs.] E. R. Stebbins |
17 S. S. Graham |
35 F. W. Stebbins |
18 H. C. Wells |
36 G. J. Arms |
|
(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved.
Contact us for information about using this image.
label levels: |
|
|
Twenty-six people from Deerfield's Main Street and 24 people from outside of Deerfield signed this petition. They wanted the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to grant the right for the planned electric railway, or trolley, to run on the Deerfield main street. Oddly, the handwriting is all that of one person and that person has not been identified. Because of 2 notes "illigible' [sic], one can assume that the petitioners signed a paper and someone copied the names on a fresh sheet to send to Boston. The petition is not dated, but was written sometime before the street railway began operation in December of 1901.
top of page
|
Petition in favor of trolley on Deerfield's Main Street
author Unidentified |
date c. 1900 |
location Deerfield, Massachusetts |
height 10.0" |
width 8.0" |
process/materials manuscript, paper, ink |
item type Legal Documents/Petition |
accession # #L99.119 |
Send an e-Postcard of this object
|