East End Viaduct

Before there was the Wells Avenue Bridge there was the East End Viaduct. It was a bridge for the trolleys that went back and forth, up and down the valley. Remember last summer's story about the Yellow Car? If you wanted to go from Beaver via Midland, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Toronto and on to Steubenville or back you took the Yellow Car. The traction companies used a color coding system for the different trolley routes.

We don't know when this bridge was replaced with the one that is still here today. The one pictured here was the first. This is a copy of a copy of what we think was one of those post cards dated back to the early 1900s. This view is looking east. The houses below were on Wells Avenue and the ones on the hillside was Highland Avenue.

Thanks to Bonny & Brassy and the Wellsville Historical Society for the loan of the picture.

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