The Baltimore and Washington Transit Company was incorporated in Maryland in the 1890s to build an

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between

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and Washington, and was authorized to enter Washington to a junction with the

Brightwood Railway Streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across the city and region from 1862 until 1962. The first streetcars in Washington, D.C., were drawn by horses and carried people short distances on flat terrain; but the introduction of clean ...

on June 8, 1896. The Brightwood's branch to Takoma ran from its main line on

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east on Butternut Street to Fourth Street Northwest, where the B&W began, running via Fourth Street, Aspen Street, and Laurel Street, and to the

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and

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in Maryland via Carroll Avenue, Ethan Allen Avenue, and Elm Avenue. Transfers were given between the Brightwood and the B&W. An extension southwest along Third Street Northwest and Kennedy Street to the end of Capital Traction's Fourteenth Street Line at

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was authorized on May 29, 1908. On March 4, 1914, the

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changed the name to the Washington and Maryland Railway, and on May 2, 1918, it was leased by Capital Traction as the

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.House Documents Volume 8
December 2, 1918-March 4, 1919, p. 21

References

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