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A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation. Such suburbs developed in the United States in the years before the automobile, when the introduction of the electric trolley or streetcar allowed the nation’s burgeoning middle class to move beyond the central city’s borders. [1]
This category lists streetcar suburbs: communities whose growth and development is or was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines, cable cars or tram routes as a primary means of transportation.
Suburbanization (American English), also spelled suburbanisation (British English), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs. Most suburbs are built in a formation of (sub)urban sprawl. [1] As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses away from city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas ...
The West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District is an area of West Philadelphia listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It represented the transformation of Philadelphia's rural farmland into urban residential development, made possible by the streetcar , which provided easy access to Center City . [ 2 ]
4. Chain Restaurants Are the Norm. If you're living in a city, there's a good chance you're surrounded by neighborhood restaurants that you can't find anywhere else. In the suburbs, you are likely ...
Public transportation began in Washington, D.C., almost as soon as the city was founded. In May 1800, two-horse stage coaches began running twice daily from Bridge and High Streets NW (now Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW) in Georgetown by way of M Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW/SE to William Tunnicliff's Tavern at the site now occupied by the Supreme Court Building.
Mattapan was named and first inhabited by Native Americans.Although humans are known to have inhabited eastern North America for at least 15,000 years, the presence of a continental ice sheet extending south to the level of Long Island and Cape Cod would have limited human habitation in Mattapan until the end of the last Ice Age, about 11,700 years ago.
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...