After its introduction in the early 1890s, the electric trolley caught on quickly in the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts. By 1909, the date of this brochure, trolleys connected communities as far north as Turners Falls, Massachusetts, with Hartford, Connecticut. Workers could now travel to jobs outside their own towns. The trolley system reached its height in the years before the United States entered World War I (1917-18). When mass-produced, less expensive automobiles started being produced after the war, the trolleys fell out of use and by the end of the 1920s, most lines had been abandoned. Today, in most places, trolley tracks have been pulled up and few traces of them remain.
Trolley Wayfinder. New England Street Railway Club, 1909. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l02-130/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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