Fort Smith Trolley Museum, Fort Smith

Name: Fort Smith Trolley Museum
Address: 100 S 4th St, Fort Smith, 72901-1947, United States
Telephone: +1 479-783-0205

#3 among attractions in Fort Smith

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The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a streetcar and railroad museum in Fort Smith, in the U.S. state of Arkansas, which includes an operating heritage streetcar line. The museum opened in 1985, and operation of its streetcar line began in 1991. Four vehicles in its collection, a streetcar and three steam locomotives, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The now approximately three-quarters-mile-long streetcar line also passes four NRHP-listed sites, including the Fort Smith National Historic Site, the Fort Smith National Cemetery, the West Garrison Avenue Historic District and the 1907 Atkinson-Williams Warehouse Building, which now houses the Fort Smith Museum of History. ()

Established: 1985 (39 years ago)Coordinates: 35°23'9"N, 94°25'48"W

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100 S 4th StDowntown Fort SmithFort Smith 72901-1947 United States

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+1 479-783-0205

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Nearby attractions include: Fort Smith National Historic Site, W.H.H. Clayton House, Fort Smith Museum of History, Belle Grove Historic District.

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Museum, History museum, Historical place
Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith
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Museum, History museum
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~800 ftNE
Museum, History museum
Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith
4 min walk • The Fort Smith Museum of History is located at 320 Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The museum is devoted to presenting the history of Fort Smith and the surrounding region.
0.6 miNE
Park
Belle Grove Historic District, Fort Smith
16 min walk • Belle Grove Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of the central business district of Fort Smith, Arkansas. This area became an affluent residential area not long after Fort Smith was established in 1842, and was most heavily developed between about 1870 and 1930.
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City hall
Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Fort Smith
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Cemetery
Fort Smith National Cemetery, Fort Smith
5 min walk • Fort Smith National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Garland Avenue and Sixth Street in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It encompasses 22.3 acres, and as of the end of 2005, had 13,127 interments.
~1190 ftE
Memorial
Ft. Smith Confederate Monument, Fort Smith
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Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Dodson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Fort Smith
36 min walk • The Goddard United Methodist Church formerly the Dodson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church at 1922 Dodson Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
0.5 miE
Concerts and shows, Theater
New Theatre, Fort Smith
13 min walk • The New Theatre is a historic theatre building at 11 North 10th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Beaux Arts building was built in 1911, and was supposedly modeled on the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.
1.1 miSE
Mission Revival Style architecture
Tillman Shaw House, Fort Smith
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Romanesque architecture
James Sparks House, Fort Smith
22 min walk • The James Sparks House is a historic house at 201 North 14th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a round three-story tower at one corner, around which a wraparound porch extends. It features Romanesque segmented-arch and round-arch windows, and chimneys with decorative corbelled tops.

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Nearby attractions include Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith (4 min walk), Fort Smith National Cemetery, Fort Smith (5 min walk), Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith (5 min walk), Ft. Smith Confederate Monument, Fort Smith (6 min walk).