Grading Old Walt Whitman Road

Black and white photograph showing a rig with four horses pulling four men aboard an open cart fitted with a scraping blade located just front of the rear axle. Perhaps the extra load allowed a cleaner cut.

Gas pump at May’s store

Black and white photograph showing a young woman in her dress gassing up the tractor at a very simple Texaco gas pump. May’s store was one of many that sold gas along with groceries or candy.

Closed electric trolley car

Black and white photograph showing a trolley car, complete with window shades, cow catcher, and electric wires overhead. After twenty years in service, legal agreements which kept fares low, and the growing popularity of private automobiles, put trolleys out of business.

Bus on a snowy day

Black and white photograph showing an early bus making its way along a very snowy road. But buses were quieter and less frightening for the cows in the nearby fields, and by 1919 had replaced the trolley along Route 110.