James P. Wrenn b.1880 in Tulamore, county Offaly, Ireland. He died at the age of 48 in New Britain Ct. About the only thing we knew of him was that he was a Motorman for the old Connecticut Company. We had no pictures of him, so when my wife saw her paternal grandfather in the paper, she optained a copy from Ruth Hummel at the Plainville Historic Center.
James Wrenn is front and center with the big mustash
The article explains how the trolly companies created parks to bring folks out of the cities on the weekend. When I lived near Crystal Lake there was a long straight as an arrow dirt road that intercected our dirt road. My dad said it had been a trolly line that went out to the lake. As a kid, he remembered going out there and also out to Lake Compounce here in Bristol. My father-in-law (Leo) told me about the work trollies carrying "traprock" (crushed rock) from the quarry in New Britain all over Ct. Today
we could use such a system in our area.
The article is shown below.
This Picture and article was run in the New Britain Herald back in 1994. The story was written by Ruth Hummel from the Plainville Historic Center.
1 comment:
How exciting. When you find a picture of some ancestor....In Pittsburgh they had trolly parks too. The best was those parks were amusement parks, one still in existance is Kennywood Park in West Mifflin PA.
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