Stillwater Street Railway Co.

Stillwater's first streetcar system, the Stillwater Street Railway Company, began operations in 1886. This map overlays the street railway's routes with historic maps from 1878 and 1891.

Map Sources:

Route map based on descriptions in Russell L. Olson, The Electric Railways of Minnesota (Hopkins, Minn.: Minnesota Transportation Museum, Inc., 1976)

Detailed building maps in central city: 1891 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Stillwater.

Block and lot maps in remainder of city: 1878 Perfected Plat of Stillwater. (By the time of the street railway's completion in 1886, some of the undeveloped land on this 1878 map would have been subdivided into additional streets and neighborhoods.)