I'm still snooping for Harden Park and Piedmont Park but not list them?


Business leaders in Burlington, led by J. W. Murray of Burlington and Junius H. Harden of Graham, started the Piedmont Railway & Electric Company in 1912. The company ran streetcars between Burlington, with less than 5,000 citizens; Graham, the county seat of Alamance County; and Haw River, a community that included a concentration of textile mills along the river (Haw River).Riders could change cars at Harden Park (later Piedmont Park) in Graham.Investors from Richmond purchased the local streetcar and utility company, renamed Piedmont Power and Light Company. Fares were five cents, except for the Burlington-Haw River run, which cost ten costs. The system operated until about 1922.

In 1906, businessmen from New York started a company to provide an electric streetcar system (which probably lasted only a year) for High Point and interurban lines to Greensboro and or Winston-Salem (never built) as well as electric lighting and gas systems. In 1912, the North Carolina Public Service Company purchased and reactivated the streetcar system, extending lines to several of the city's textile mills and furniture plants. The streetcar lines eventually consisted of about six miles of track.



In Alamance County, a streetcar rider could visit Harden Park in Graham, Spoon Lake for swimming, or Haw River for promenading "across the wooden trestle bridge by the grist mill.


CREDITS: Excerpts: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historical Landmarks Commission-City of Burlington, North Carolina