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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Davenport's Eastwood Farms needs a trolley to MOMAUGUIN! (Give my regards to River Street)

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The Connecticut Trolley Company ran to Davenport's Eastwood Farms (vulgarly known as "East Haven") and Momauguin on Long Island Sound until 1947. 

After that, everybody was supposed to have a nice automobile!

Its line to Wallingford also ran across the nortwest corner of Davenport's Eastwood Farms until 1937. 

Foxon (thus called after a Native American by that name -- it has nothing to do with 'foxes' in the area) on the northern edge of Davenport's Eastwood Farms, was served by 

(a) the Shore Line Electric Railway, from 1910 to 1919 and 
(b) the New Haven & Shore Line, from 1923 to 1930.

east haven map
east haven photoThe green of Davenport's Eastwood Farms ("East Haven") on Nov. 3, 1940. 

#1921 on "River Street" (after the Farm River or more correctly, the East Haven River) is westbound from Branford to New Haven. 

#1199 (now preserved at the Branford Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven) is on Hemingway Avenue on a rail-fan excursion. 

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