Records, 1903-1914.

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Records, 1903-1914.

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Minute book, original certificate share book, list of shareholders, transfer of shares, legislation, and deeds relating to sale of the railway to the city of Seattle in 1914 to become part of the Seattle Municipal Street Railway system.

.4 cubic ft.

Seattle Municipal Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8044918

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Highland Park and Lake Burien Railway

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Seattle Municipal Street Railway

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In 1883, Frank Osgood and Judge Thomas Burke, along with pioneer entrepreneurs David Denny and George Kinnear, formed a plan to build Seattle’s first streetcar line and, arguably, Seattle’s first attempt at public transportation. The first streetcars of the Seattle Street Railway ran between Occidental Avenue and Pike Street in downtown Seattle starting in September 1884. This new form of transportation was an instant success and other competing streetcar companies formed. The first...