West End Street Railroad Company

Collection contains Board of County Commissioners' resolutions granting franchises and rights-of-way to petitioners wanting to construct, operate and maintain single or double track passenger railways in Jefferson County during the 1880s and 1890s. Franchises were granted to cross county roads. In some cases bonds and/or petitions signed by property owners and residents along the proposed lines accompany the resolutions.

File contains:

1) Petition to construct and operate a double or single track street railway along a route in Jefferson County

2) Resolution granting franchise along requested route and right-of-way along, over and upon all public roads

3) Resolution amending lanuage of original resolution ragarding grading of road bed

4) Bond of West End Railroad Co.