The trolley line ran along Central Avenue, up The Plaza, down Mecklenburg and ended at the Charlotte Country Club. The combination of the trolley and the Country Club were a real draw for folks moving to Midwood. In fact, the developers of Myers Park were quite worried that their sales would suffer, because Midwood had the golf course and Myers Park didn’t have one at a time.
When the Depression hit, development stopped in Chatham Estates. As the economy picked up different builders returned to Midwood and the result was many different styles of homes built over the 30′s and 40′s. The trolley stopped running in the mid 1930′s but it left a lovely neighborhood that still longs to hear the sound of that trolley coming around the corner.
"Streetcar Suburbs"
Want to read a first hand account of Midwood in the early days in Charles M. Paty, Jr’s story: Bullfrogs and Arched Doorways.
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