Chautauqua, NY
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Chautauqua Traction Completed to Assembly Grounds
The last spike in the line of the Chautauqua Traction Co. to the Chautauqua Assemby grounds was driven at 1:45 P. m. Saturday in front of the depot at that place. The management of the company assures the public that cars will surely be running this week. Source: Cattaraugus [NY] Times, 30 June 1904, p.…
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Last Spike Driven on Chautauqua Traction
The last spike was driven in the Chautauqua Traction line Saturday and a car passed over the entire route to Chautauqua during the day. Regular passenger service opens on July 1. Source: The Buffalo [NY] News, 27 June 1904, p. 16, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Trolley News
Last Saturday there was a spirited contest before the village trustees in Mayville and the Commissioner of Highways of the town of Chautauqua respecting the franchise for building and operating of a trolley road between the Court house and Chautauqua Assembly grounds, between the Chautauqua Traction Co., represented by Judge J. B. Fisher and the…
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1899 NYS Report on the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway
Below is the report filed by the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the six months ending December 31, 1898. This report only covers six months because the company was foreclosed on and sold on November 1, 1898 and the new company, the Jamestown and Chautauqua Railway, started…