Name/Title
Holland and Lake Michigan Electric RoadEntry/Object ID
2022.58.07Description
Photo of a doorway on a light-colored clapboard building with steps and a wooden boardwalk. In the distance, two figures are running behind train boxcars or other rolling stock.
Notes written on back of photo include "X Holland and Lake Michigan electric road, going down River St. Saugatuck" in black ink, two undecipherable words in blue ink and a scratch out and "2014-22-06" in pencil.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Print, photographContext
"Grand Rapids, Holland and Lake Michigan Rapid Railway.
BY GEORGE A. DAMON AND WILLIAM D. RAY.
The Grand Rapids, Holland and Lake Michigan Rapid Railway company was incorporated on February 24, 1900, to construct and operate an interurban electric railway from Grand Rapids, Mich., the second city of the state, to Holland, and there connect with the Holland and Lake Michigan railway and the Saugatuck, Douglas and Lake Shore railway. From Grand Rapids, the eastern terminus, the road passes through the towns of Grandville, Jenison, Hanley, Jamestown, Vriesland and Zeeland, as indicated on the map, Fig. 1. A good farming country, an old and thickly settled rural community peopled by industrious Dutch and Germans, and given over to cultivation of acreages and fruit culture almost entirely, lies between Grand Rapids and the lake. Holland is practically the western terminus of the road. The total population served by the road outside of Grand Rapids is over 30,000. ... The Holland and Lake Michigan railway and the Saugatuck, Douglas and Lake Shore railway were lines constructed for summer-excursion business."
from https://reference.insulators.info/publications/view/?id=9338&h0=hollandCollection
1899 Interurban electric train -1926Acquisition
Accession
2022.58Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionNotes
2014.22.06 is written on the back of the photo in pencil but that number is used for other items in the SDHC archive.Dimensions
Height
3-1/2 inWidth
4-3/4 inLocation
Box
137 Transportation on LandRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Interurban Railroad 1899-1927Create Date
July 28, 2022Update Date
May 2, 2023
