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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807

[email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library

Ron Degraw Transit Collection 2397

Table of Contents

Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Biographical Note .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 5 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 6 SEPTA ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Philadelphia Transportation Company ...................................................................................................... 12 Philadelphia & Western Railroad Company ............................................................................................. 14 Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. ............................................................................................... 17 Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Co. .............................................................................................. 21 Bryn Mawr Corporation ............................................................................................................................ 22 Lehigh Valley Transit Company ............................................................................................................... 22 Consultant's Reports .................................................................................................................................. 23 Transit & Electric Railway Ephemera ...................................................................................................... 24 Personal ...................................................................................................................................................... 30

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Summary Information

Repository:
Creator:

Manuscripts and Archives DeGraw, Ronald, 1942-2006 Ron Degraw Transit Collection 2397

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1859-2002 bulk 1920-1990 28 Linear Feet

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English .

Abstract:

The collection consists of official documents produced or used by Ronald DeGraw during his career as a public transit official and transit consultant, materials from pre-SEPTA operators of the Philadelphia transit system that he preserved from loss or destruction, research materials that he amassed for writing his published and projected books, and photographs and ephemera collected out of his interest in the history of transit systems, particularly electric traction lines or what came to be called light rail transit.

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Biographical Note

Ronald DeGraw was born on December 7, 1942. His father was a motorman for the Philadelphia & Western Railroad, an electric traction line running between Upper Darby and Norristown, Pa., that was later merged into the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (PSTC). The PSTC operated a network of trolleys and buses that fanned out through the western suburbs from the terminus of the Market Street Subway-Elevated Line at 69th Street in Upper Darby. Six other family members had worked for the P&W since 1909. Between 1965 and 1970, Degraw was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, often covering the transit system at a time when it was moving from private to public ownership.

DeGraw was hired by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in 1970 as Director of Development of its Red Arrow Division, acquired that year by condemnation from the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company. He was promoted to Senior Project Engineer in 1976, when SEPTA took over the Schuylkill Valley Lines, Inc., operating buses in the farther

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suburbs along the Schuylkill River, as its Frontier Division. DeGraw was subsequently Manager of Route and Service Planning for the suburban transit lines (1980-1984), Chief Operations Planning Officer (1984-1987), Chief Operating Officer of the Suburban Transit Division (1987-?), and Chief of Long-Range Planning for SEPTA. DeGraw retired from SEPTA in 1996, and thereafter worked as an independent transportation consultant from his home in King of Prussia.

DeGraw maintained throughout his life a deep interest in the history of the company for which three generations of his family had worked and its place in the suburban communities where he lived. He was the author of three books. The first, Red Arrow, was published in 1972. He then worked on an updated and expanded version of the original work that was planned to encompass three volumes. The first,

Red Arrow: The First Hundred Years, 1848-1948, was published in 1985. The second, Pig & Whistle: The Story of the Philadelphia & Western Railway, was published posthumously in 2007. DeGraw never

finished the third volume that would have covered the lines' history after 1948, and he was collecting material for a fourth volume on the history of the Lehigh Valley Transit Company when he died on January 30, 2006.

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Scope and Content

The collection consists of official documents produced or used by Ron DeGraw during his career as a public transit official and transit consultant, materials from pre-SEPTA operators of the Philadelphia transit system that he preserved from loss or destruction, research materials that he amassed for writing his published and projected books, and photographs and ephemera collected out of his interest in the history of transit systems, particularly electric traction lines or what came to be called light rail transit. Some of the files were acquired from earlier streetcar historians such as Howard P. Sell of Allentown and Howard L. Price.

The bulk of the collection naturally concerns the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company and Philadelphia & Western Railway, including their subsequent management as part of the SEPTA system and the PSTC's evolution into a Florida real estate concern called Bryn Mawr Corporation and ultimately the Dixon Ticonderoga Company. DeGraw also amassed a vertical file of articles, clippings, maps, publications and ephemera on historic trolley and interurban lines, mostly in Pennsylvania but including the transit systems of Boston, New York City, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto, and on modern light rail transit. There are some reports from DeGraw's work as a consultant, along with personal correspondence with other traction enthusiasts and news stories he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer early in his career.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement

Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807

[email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library

Access Restrictions

Original SEPTA documents less than 25 years old are closed to researchers.

Provenance

Gift of Ronald DeGraw's executor

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Related Materials

Related Material

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Edward R. Stickel Collection (Accession 2056), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

John F. Tucker Transit Collection (Accession 2046), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

Pennsylvania Railroad Company Records (Accession 1807/1810), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company Records (Accession 1370), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

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Reading Company Records (Accession 1520), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Records (Accession 2123), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

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Controlled Access Headings

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Railroads. Local transit Street-railroads Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Collection Inventory

SEPTA

Scope and Content

Consists of documents from DeGraw's official tenure at SEPTA. The primary focus is on the Red Arrow or Suburban Transit Divisions, and particularly on the old Philadelphia & Western Railway, then called the Norristown High Speed Line, the rebuilding and reequipping of which was a major project during DeGraw's term of office. DeGraw collected a large number of daily newsclippings during and after his tenure at SEPTA, which reflect the recurring funding crises and political infighting at the agency, particularly the very brief and controversial management of William Stead and the following administrations of Louis C. Gambaccini and David Gunn. Oversized items include SEPTA transit maps, and architect's plans for the rebuilding of the 69th Street Terminal in 1985.

  • Title/Description
  • Instances

box 1
Alternate service providers, 1982-1997 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1
Analysis of regional light rail system -- Peat Marwick, 1994 Annual operating budget, FY 2001 Annual service plan, FY 1999 FY 2006 Bicentennial service, 1976 "Blueliners" Bond issues, 1968-1988

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box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1
Brochures and flyers Brochures and flyers -- Regional Rail Business audit, 1997 Capital needs analysis, 1983-1990 Car barns & depots Car rosters and assignments Census data Center City Commuter Connection, 1984 Commuter rail operations -- Burlington, N.J. corridor, 1995 Conrail -- Transfer of commuter service to SEPTA, 1982 Conversion of heavy rail to light rail study, 1995 Cross County Metro, 1989-1995

Defining the Role of SEPTA in Lower Bucks County, 1998

Deficits, 1976 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1
Delaware Avenue/Penn's Landing -- Historic trolleys Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Downingtown timetable, November 2, 1981 Experimental Services Committee -- Initial reports, 1993-1994 Fact sheets Fare policy study, 2001 Fares Financial report, 1995 Five year plan, FY 1999-FY 2003 Frontier Division -- Transit guides Funding crisis, 1981

A Future for the Philadelphia Surface Streetcar System, 1989 The Future of Regional Rail, 1995

Germantown Avenue historic trolleys Harrisburg Line, 1990-1997 Homicide of Sgt. Thomas Sewell, 1989 King of Prussia and Chesterbrook transportation study, 1989 "Liberty Liners"

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box 1 box 1
Light rail analysis -- Peat Marwick, 1994 Light rail network -- Proposed expansion, 1992 Light rail vehicle procurement & systems integration, 1994 Light rail vehicles box 1 box 1 box 1 box 1 box 2 box 2 box 2
Management -- David Gunn, 1984-1991 Management -- Louis J. Gambaccini, 1992-1997

Managing SEPTA Strategically, 1979

Maps Maps -- Center City transit routes drawer MD-25
Public transportation lines in S.E. Pennsylvania map, 1969 drawer MD-25
Suburban service map, circa 1985 Transit map, 1998 drawer MD-25

box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2 box 2
Market-Frankford El cars Media-Sharon Hill Line Media-Sharon Hill Line cars Miscellaneous publications, 1978-2000 Monthly management reports, 1982-1995 (incomplete) News releases News clippings -- Howard L. E. Price, 1970-1988 News clippings -- SEPTA management News clippings -- Service News clippings -- Transit history Norristown High Speed Line: Accident to car no. 209, 1972 Norristown High Speed Line: Accidents -- Clippings Norristown High Speed Line: Accidents -- Reports Norristown High Speed Line: "Bullet" cars Norristown High Speed Line: Bus substitution Norristown High Speed Line: C.T.A. replacement cars Norristown High Speed Line: Capital improvement program, 1988 Norristown High Speed Line: Capital improvements

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box 2 box 2
Norristown High Speed Line: Car fires, 1973-1988 Norristown High Speed Line: Comparative data with Paoli Line and Reading Line, 1972

box 3 box 3 box 3 box 3 box 3
Norristown High Speed Line: General, 1986-1992 Norristown High Speed Line: Modernization Norristown High Speed Line: Modernization -- Cars Norristown High Speed Line: N-5 Cars, 1988-1993 Norristown High Speed Line: N-5 Cars -- Contract documents, 1986

box 3 box 3 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4
Norristown High Speed Line: Operations, 1983-2003 Norristown High Speed Line: Passenger survey, 1972 Norristown High Speed Line: Signal modernization, 1985 Norristown High Speed Line: Stafford cars, 1989 Norristown High Speed Line: Superelevation study, 1990 Norristown High Speed Line: System development, 1983 Norristown High Speed Line: Timetables, 1970-1992 Norristown High Speed Line: Vehicle purchase, 1986 Norristown Transportation Center Norristown Transportation Center -- Field inspection, 1988 Northeast Metro, 1995 Operating budgets, FY 2005 FY 2006 Operating data, 1995-1996 Operating goals, FY 1991 "Operating Idiosyncrasies of a Subway-Surface System", 1977 Operating statistics, 1981-1990 (incomplete)

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete. box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4
Operations manuals: Antique trolleys, 1976 Operations manuals: N-5 Cars, 1993 Operations manuals: P.C.C. Cars, 1976 Operations manuals: Single-end LRV, 1985 Organization charts P.C.C. Cars

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box 4

  • box 4
  • Passes, tickets and transfers

box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 box 4 oversize 1 box 5
The Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad Company, 1994 "A Plan for Better Public Transportation", 1989

A Plan for SEPTA'S Regional Metrorail System, 1993

Planning, 1987-1997 R.D.C. Cars, 1976 Rail transit stations -- Parking inventory, 2002 Red Arrow Division: Alternatives for operation Red Arrow Division: Clippings Red Arrow Division: Notices Red Arrow Division: Program appraisal & review, 1973 Red Arrow Division: Report on reverse riding, 1971 Red Arrow Division: Service changes chronology, 1953-1986 Red Arrow Division: Track & signal diagrams Red Arrow Division: Transfers, zone checks, etc., 1970 Red Arrow Division: Vehicles Red Arrow Improvement Project -- Phases I & II, 1982-1985 Purchase of Red Arrow Lines by SEPTA, 1969-1970 Red Arrow Lines trademark, 1991 "Regional Rail -- The Philadelphia Story", 1994 Regional Rail Division -- Service standards & process, 2005 Regional Rail Improvement Study -- Gannett Fleming, 2000 Regional Rail ridership census, 1997 Regional Rail Lines -- Chronology of SEPTA operations, 1983-1986

box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5
"Reinventing Transportation Policy", 1993 "Report on the Conrail Crisis", 1982 "Report on the State of SEPTA", 1997 Resources utilization plan, 1974 Ridership Ridership statistics, FY 1993 FY 1996 FY 2003 Rolling stock -- Disposal of

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box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5 box 5
Route 62 Chester Avenue extension, 1994 Routes Rule books, 1970-1992 Safety Safety -- 1981 Inquirer series Schuylkill Valley Lines, Inc., 1974-1976 Schuylkill Valley Metro, 1996-1999 Schuylkill Valley Metro final report, 1998 "SEPTA at the Crossroads", 1997 SEPTA enabling act, 1963 oversize 1 box 5 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6
SEPTA history SEPTA management -- Booz Allen, 1978 "SEPTA Needs Dedicated Funding", 1991 "SEPTA -- State of the Business", 1995 Service standards & process

Short Term Improvements for SEPTA's Regional Rail System,

1994

  • box 6
  • 69th Street Terminal & neighborhood

box roll oversize 1 box 6
69th Street Terminal improvement project -- Plan set, 1985 69th Street Terminal improvement project -- Plan set, 1986 69th Street Terminal maintenance complex, 1988

  • box 6
  • "Speed & Superelevation on an Interurban Electric Railway",

1991

box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6
Status report for Gov. Shapp, 1970 William G. Stead interview, 1987 William G. Stead - Investigation of charges against SEPTA, 1988 Storms Strafford Branch Strafford Branch hiking trail Strike of 1995 -- Press clippings Strikes Suburban light rail lines, 1978 Suburban Newsletter (Suburban Operations Division), 1990-1996

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box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6
Suburban Station Concourse redevelopment, circa 1995 Suburban Transit Division - Miscellaneous Suburban Transit Division - Service standards & process, 2004 Track standards manual, 1986 Transportation Management Association of Chester County, 1997

Transportation Options for the International Corridor in Delaware County

box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6 box 6
Trends and forecasts data book, 1995 Trolley tracks on Philadelphia streets, 1976 Turnout designations -- Old Red Arrow Lines, 1986 U.S. Open, 1981 U.S. Route 422 transit activity centers, 1993 Union agreements, 1971-1992 Woodland car barn, 1975

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Philadelphia Transportation Company

Scope and Content

Consists of documents, clippings and notes concerning the Philadelphia Transportation Company and is predecessor the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. The PTC became the City Lines of SEPTA, and DeGraw's official involvement with them came at the very end of his career and his interest in them was much less than with the Red Arrow Division. The only original documents concern the PTC's lines in Delaware County that interfaced with those of the Red Arrow, plus specimen stock certificates from PTC and its predecessor companies. There are the usual maps, route guides and historical articles, including a copy of a seminar paper on Thomas E. Mitten's system of labor relations, schematic track maps showing to contraction of street railway service, and architectural plans of the original subway terminal at 69th Street.

  • Title/Description
  • Instances

box 7
Agreements, 1907-1939 box 7 box 7
Annual meeting notice, 1968 Annual report -- Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. to Pa. P.U.C., 1938

box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7
Buses Clippings & copies -- Newspapers Clippings & copies -- Trade press Co-Operative Fund regulations, 1922

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box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7
Delaware River Bridge Line Flyers & notices Folsom Bus Garage -- Plan, 1943 Frankford Elevated Railway History Maps Maps -- Route maps pocket book Car route guide, June 1922 drawer MD-25

drawer MD-25
Official map of the Phila. Rapid Transit Co., 1904 69th Street Terminal -- Architectural plans, circa 1955 Track map, September 1954 drawer MD-25

drawer MD-25

drawer MD-25
Track map, March 1958 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7 box 7
Miscellaneous statistics & notes Mitten, Thomas E. Ordinances, 1917 Organization chart P.C.C. cars Philadelphia Rapid Transit Air Service Red Arrow Lines -- Proposed purchase of, 1963 Replacing Essington-Media trolleys with buses, 1938 Replacing Essington trolleys with buses, 1938 Route guides Schedules Southwestern Division history Stock certificates (including predecessor companies) Subway car -- Plans Tickets, tokens & transfers Willow Grove Park

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    BOSTON STREET RAILWAY ASSOCIATION, INC. • WWW.THEBSRA.ORG Winter 2012 Publications Catalogue SHOP ONLINE & PAY BY CARD! Visit thebsra.org/store or scan this code with your phone: NEW RELEASES NEW! THE CITY LINES OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY TRANSIT CO., 1947–1951 by Rockhill Trolley Museum This new 2-disc DVD set features non-stop trolley action on Lehigh Valley Transit’s city lines in Allentown, Bethlehem, and other nearby communities in Pennsylvania from 1947 to 1951. Most of the various classes of passenger equipment in use at the time are included. Footage featuring work and freight equipment is also showcased. Both discs include relevant historic route maps and narration throughout. over 110 minutes, color..................................................................................................................... $ 27.95 NEW! TRACKS OF THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY—2012 EDITION by Peter Dougherty Updated to December 2011, this is the complete track diagram of New York’s subway, with up-to-date rosters, mainline and yard trackage & more. Features all MTA service changes, PATH, Staten Island RR, and AirTrain. This edition includes changes to signals, capital improvements, fleet changes, and the new 72nd Street alignment. A must-have reference! 150 pages, spiral-bound.......$ 39.95 NEW ENGLAND TRACTION NOW IN STOCK NOW IN STOCK! SALEM, NH VOL. 2: TROLLEYS, CANOBIE LAKE & ROCKINGHAM PARK by Douglas Seed & Katherine Khalife [Arcadia Images of America Series] Published in 1996. With the opening of Canobie Lake and Rockingham Parks in 1902 and 1906, Salem, NH area residents shared recreational destinations that were built on traction. The two parks hold fond memories for the millions who have passed through their gates and for the thousands who have worked there over the years.
  • Wethersfield Avenue Car Barn And/Or Common the Trolley Barn 2

    Wethersfield Avenue Car Barn And/Or Common the Trolley Barn 2

    NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (3-82) Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only National Register of Historic Places receired OCT27 Inventory Nomination Form date entered NPV ? P See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms ' ° Type all entries complete applicable sections__________________________________ 1. Name historic Wethersfield Avenue Car Barn and/or common The Trolley Barn 2. Location CD street & number 331 Wetnersf ield Avenue^ not for publication city, town Hartford NA vicinity of NA Connecticut state code 09 county Hartford code 003 3. Classification Category Ownership Status Present Use district public x occupied agriculture museum x building(s) x private unoccupied x commercial park structure both work in progress educational private residence site Public Acquisition Accessible entertainment religious object in process yes: restricted government scientific , being considered ._ yes: unrestricted industrial transportation NA x no military Other: 4. Owner of Property name H. W. Nannen, R. H. Chase & R. G. W. Pitchford street & number 331 Wethersfield Avenue city, town Hartford _NA vicinity of NA state Connecticut 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Hartford Land Records, Municipal Building street & number 550 Main Street Hartford city, town state Connecticut 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Hartford Architecture Conservancy's title Survey of Hartford Architectures this property been determined eligible? yes no date 1978 federal state county x local depository for survey records The Stowe-Day Library , 11 Forest Street city, town Hartford state Connecticut 7. Description Condition Check one Check one excellent deteriorated unaltered x original site x good ruins x altered moved date fair unexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Overview The Trolley Barn, facing east on Wethersfield Avenue, a north-south artery running through south Hartford, was built in 1902-03 by the Hartford Street Railway Co.
  • Prime Wellness ( >F Connf( Ttcut

    Prime Wellness ( >F Connf( Ttcut

    PRIME WELLNESS ( >F CONNF( TTCUT ApPLICATION FOR A MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITY LICENSE BINDER 1 OF 2 Prime Wellness of Connecticut, LLC www.primewellnessofct.com South Windsor, Connecticut January 28, 2014 Mr. Thomas J. Nicholas, CEO Prime Wellness of Connecticut, LLC 379 Quarry Brook Drive South Windsor, CT 06074 Dear Tom, My understanding is that the CT DCP has asked some of the Dispensary applicants to submit additional information due by February 3, 2014. As such, I'm writing this letter agreeing to the extension of our contingent lease for 75 John Fitch Boulevard, South Windsor, CT 06074 from 1/31/14 to 2/28/14. Hopefully, the department will award dispensary licenses before the end of February. Best of luck in your quest for licensure and please keep me apprised of your progress. Agreed by: . Landlord: Peter Churilo Tennant: Prime Wellness of Connecticut, LLC ( W PRIME WELLNESS l)F CONN ""'CTIClTT ApPLICATION FOR A ( MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITY LICENSE Prime Wellness of Connecticut, LLC www.primewellnessofct.com South Windsor, Connecticut WPRIME WELLNESS (II «)I\;~I( 'II( l 1 ( November, 14th 2013 Via Hand Delivery Department of Consumer Protection Drug Control Division - Medical Marijuana Program RFA #2013-109377 165 Capitol Ave., Room 145 Hartford, CT 06106 Attn: William M. Rubenstein, Commissioner Dear Mr. Rubenstein: Prime Wellness of Connecticut, LLC ("Prime Wellness" ) is pleased to submit for your review and consideration an application for a medical marijuana dispensary facility license. Prime Wellness recognizes the numerous stakeholders involved with this unique project, including but not limited to patients, law enforcement, the medical community, local and State government, and the general public.