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Colonel Monroe Martin Shipe was an American real estate developer and streetcar network operator who developed the "whites only" streetcar suburb of Hyde Park in Austin, Texas and founded the Austin Rapid Transit Railway Company (eventually the predecessor to Austin's current transit agency, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority).

Shipe moved to Austin in the 1880s from Abilene, Kansas with $830. Within a few years with that money, he bought an undeveloped area of land north of town, convinced the City Council to give him a franchise to run electric streetcars, and borrowed $62,500 to fund five miles of rail running from downtown to his plot of land which he named Hyde Park. His streetcar, the Austin Electric Railway Company, began running in February, 1891.[1]

Hyde Park

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Main article: Hyde Park (Austin, Texas)

[2][3][4][5][6] Missouri, Kansas and Texas Land and Town Company[7][8] electric streetcar[9][10][11][6]

Austin Rapid Transit Railway Company

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Further information: Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority § Predecessors

electric streetcars[12][13][14]Austin Rapid Transit Railway Company[15][12]

Children

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Daughter Clotilde Shipe married Peter Mansbendel.[16]

See also

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Buildings in Hyde Park

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References

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  1. ^ Wear, Ben (8 March 2010). "Rail: Wars, Depression, lack of taxes drained spark". Austin American-Statesman. p. A1,A5. Retrieved 14 September 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Hyde Park". Austin Treasures. City of Austin. Retrieved August 31, 2005.
  3. ^ Julio, Julio (2007-02-02). "Hyde Park evolved differently than planned". The Daily Texan. Archived from the original on 2010-01-28. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  4. ^ R.U. Steinberg and John Slate, East Austin: A Planned Community. Austin Chronicle. 12/9/1988√
  5. ^ Eliot Tretter, Austin Restricted: Progressivism, Zoning, Private Racial Covenants, and the Making of a Segregated City. Draft Report for Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, University of Texas at Austin, 2012. "Austin Restricted". Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  6. ^ a b Austin City Connection. "Hyde Park Local Historic District". City of Austin. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  7. ^ Tretter, Eliot M. (2012). "Austin Restricted: Progressivism, Zoning, Private Racial Covenants, and the Making of a Segregated City". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "Austin's history of segregation threatens economy's future". projects.statesman.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  9. ^ Ben Wear (March 8, 2010). "From mules to scrap: Austin's first rail era". Austin-American Statesman. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
  10. ^ "Austin landmark to undergo major restoration". News 8 Austin. Aug 17, 2009. Retrieved Sep 7, 2011.
  11. ^ "Hyde Park Historic District". Texas Historical Site Atlas. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved Sep 9, 2011.
  12. ^ a b Wear, Ben (March 8, 2010). "From mules to scrap: Austin's first rail era". Austin-American Statesman. Archived from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  13. ^ Trujillo, Julio (February 2, 2007). "Hyde Park evolved differently than planned". The Daily Texan. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  14. ^ "Recent Data on Railway Parks". Street Railway Review. XIII (1). Chicago: Windsor & Kenfield Publishing Co.: 27 January 20, 1903. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  15. ^ Jackson, A. T. (1954). "Austin's Streetcar Era". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 58 (2): 235–248. ISSN 0038-478X. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  16. ^ "Peter Heinrich Mansbendel Papers". Texas Archival Resources Online.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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