The development of the streetcar made it possible for these middle-class residents to move away from the industrial neighborhoods and form suburbs from which they could commute to their jobs in the ...

In return, the residents of the streetcar suburbs contributed manpower and funds to the sustenance and development of this “core” downtown, in a symbiotic relationship akin to the national model.

The Omaha-Council Bluffs streetcar era began in 1868 with wagonlike trolleys that ran on rails and were pulled by horses. By 1890, the metropolitan area had 90 miles of tracks — more than any ...

Converse Heights is one of Spartanburg’s original “streetcar suburbs.” One of its homes, a 5,400-square-foot residence built in 1941, went up for sale in June.

More than a century ago, streetcars opened the way to the suburbs as a burgeoning middle class began to leave behind downtown when finishing work each day.

A Refuge From the Slums The Murphy Addition was the first of Nashville’s splendid, turn-of-the-century streetcar suburbs. The electric streetcar, innovations in finance and public infrastructure ...

With the new streetcar extension and more visitors coming to the area, the city of Kansas City, Missouri, is committed to ...

Map – Around New Portland Heights Loop, 1904. Portland Streetcar History is a website where Booth is sharing the over 1,000 articles he’s transcribed so far. He’s sharing illustrations of old maps and ...

Originally a streetcar suburb for those escaping the city’s density in the 1890s, the Heights was annexed by Houston in 1918 and quickly evolved into one of the city’s most iconic neighborhoods. Today ...

Knowing that the area eventually became car-dependent, Jovanovic was intrigued to learn about Toronto's old streetcar history and came across a blogTO article highlighting a similar map.

Suburbs began to be developed beyond the half-mile circle around Statehouse Square. The process begun by horse-drawn streetcars moved even faster with the advent of electrified streetcars in 1890.

There was a time when Omaha's growth could be mapped by the streetcar lines that traversed the city. From Florence to South Omaha, Dundee to the Missouri River, at their peak in the early 20th ...