Carville, San Francisco
Carville, also known as Carville-by-the-Sea and Cartown, was an impromptu neighborhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now the Outer Sunset District of San Francisco, California. Residents reused abandoned horsecars (horse-drawn trolleys) and, later, cable cars for housing and public buildings. Carville was located near the intersection of 47th Ave. and Lawton Streets, just south of the western end of Golden Gate Park. History In the 1850s and 1860s local San Francisco transit companies used horse-drawn railcars on city streets. The arrival of cable cars and electric streetcars spelled the doom of the equine-pulled variety. In 1895 the Market Street Railway Company placed a newspaper advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner offering horsecars for $20 ($10 without seats). By September of that year the cars were already put to a wide variety of uses, including a backyard children's playhouse, a real estate office, a shoemaker's shop, and a shelter for poor people in North Beach. Colonel Charles Dailey had moved with his wife in 1893 to a hut on a plot rented from Adolph Sutro in the then-unsettled expanse of sand dunes near Ocean Beach. He rented a horse car from Sutro and in it