Advantages And Disadvantages Of Mount Vernon

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The planners of the railway also expected local usage would bring in additional revenue beyond transporting visitors to Mount Vernon. This changed Alexandria and surrounding areas such as Potomac (Del Ray) and Rosemont into the first bedroom suburbs of Washington because people took advantage of this to live in the country and commute. By 1906, thirty trains operated every day along its lines with perhaps one-million passengers or more were carried in a year on the railway (Sweieg).
Even though Mount Vernon was closed on Sundays, ridership remained high even though the trolleys stopped at Little Hunting Creek, the last stop before Mount Vernon. In addition, many picnic grounds such as Collingwood Beach, Dyke Station, and Riverside existed along