Meadow Brook Valley

A copy of a 1918 plat map of the Meadow Brook Valley. North is at top. This gives a rough idea of one of the areas being explored. The bridge abutments in some of the trolley photos were taken where the road crosses the Laurel Line tracks, shown as McConnell's Junction on this map. For some reason the Meadow Brook Crushed Stone Company isn't shown, although it was in operation at the time. What is usually refered to as Connell Junction is where the "over the hill" line meets the "tunnel line" on the Laurel Line tracks. The Laurel Line did have a Connell Junction station, near the location of the bridge abutments. Once the stone company closed, it didn't see too many riders, usually hikers in the woods.