To the Selectmen of Deerfield,

If the Greenfield and Deerfield
Street Railway Company secure
a charter from the Legisla-
ture, we the undersigned
inhabitants of Deerfield
respectfully request our
Selectmen to locate the track
on the private land
immediately adjoining the
N.Y., N.H., and Hartford
Railway. (There are now four
approaches to this line, by
the addition of two foot paths
there would be six approaches
within the mile.)

This location would
preserve the beauty and
quiet of our street, prevent
injury to our trees and
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Handwritten by Emma L. Coleman, this petition requests that the Selectmen of Deerfield, Massachusetts, "locate the (trolley) track on the private land immediately adjoining the N.Y., N.H., and Hartford Railway." Miss Coleman argues that this location would preserve the beauty and the quiet of the street and prevent injury to the trees. When the trolley line opened in December 1901, the tracks were not on private land as she requested, but, instead, down the middle of the main street.

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