The Trolley Barn

The view down Edgewood in 1889. The Trolley Barn (a.k.a. Car Barn) was the repair depot for one of the nation's first electric street car systems. Prior to then, exhibition lines had been constructed in Cleveland, Kansas City, the Boston Mechanics Fair (1884), Coney Island, Baltimore and Orange, New Jersey (1885) Photograph courtesy of Atlanta Historical Society. Another photograph: No. 7 takes Inman Park commuters to Equitable Place, circa 1891.

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