Rock Creek Railway Streetcar

Rock Creek Railway Streetcar. . , Between 1892 and 1937, the Rock Creek Railway streetcar ran along the newly extended Connecticut Avenue from Seventh Street in the District of Columbia into Maryland. It went past the recently opened National Zoo, around Chevy Chase Circle and North into the man-made Chevy Chase Lake, an amusement park created to be the trolley's water-generated electricity plant., The Chevy Chase Land Company founded in 1890, began to acquire land northwest of Rock Creek Park for a new racially exclusive development. The planned residential community, to be built in a rural farm landscape, was not easily accessible from downtown Washington, DC. To address this, the Land Company purchased controlling shares in the Rock Creek Railway. Both the streetcar and Rock Creek Park increased property value to the new suburban development., In addition to providing transportation, including for African Americans working as domestic servants who could not live there, the streetcar delivered groceries, packages, and medicine to the residents in the new community, since no commercial enterprises were initially allowed on CCLC land., This Call Box was restored in September 2022 by the coalition of District Bridges Chevy Chase Main Street, Ch/Art, the Chevy Chase Community Association, and Historic Chevy Chase DC. It was also sponsored by the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3/4G and Little Beast Bistro. The creative design behind the restoration was developed by Babe King, a Chevy Chase resident whose grandparents lived on Connective Ave. at Morrison Street.