Most Common Street Names in Massachusetts. There are a couple other interesting trends in the full list of streets. 25 roads are named after somebody’s aunt (“Aunt Debby’s Road,’’ “Aunt Helen’s Way’’). “South,’’ at #17, is apparently the most popular direction in the state (“West’’ is #19, “North’’ is #29, and poor old “East’’ is 136).
Illuminated street signs in at 'President´s Corner'A street or road name or odonym is an identifying name given to a. The street name usually forms part of the (though addresses in some parts of the world, notably most of, make no reference to street names). Are often given along the street to further help identify them.Names are often given in a two-part form: an individual name known as the specific, and an indicator of the type of street, known as the generic. Examples are 'Main Road', 'Fleet Street' and 'Park Avenue'. The type of street stated, however, can sometimes be misleading: a street named 'Park Avenue' need not have the characteristics of an in the generic sense. Some street names have only one element, such as 'The Mall' or 'The Beeches'.A street name can also include a direction (the cardinal points east, west, north, south, or the NW, NE, SW, SE) especially in cities with a grid-numbering system.
Examples include 'E Roosevelt Boulevard' and '14th Street NW'. These directions are often (though not always) used to differentiate two sections of a street. Other qualifiers may be used for that purpose as well. Examples: upper/lower, old/new, or adding 'extension'.'
' and ' are common names for the major street in the middle of a shopping area in the and the, respectively. The most common street name in the US is '2nd' or 'Second'.
Contents.Etymologies The of a street name is sometimes very obvious, but at other times it might be obscure or even forgotten.In the United States, most streets are named after numbers, landscapes, trees (a combination of trees and landscapes such as 'Oakhill' is used often in residential areas), or the surname of an important individual (in some instances, it is just a commonly held surname such as Smith).Some streets, such as Elm Street in, have been renamed due to features changing. Elm Street's new name, Jacksonville Road, was chosen because it leads to the village of Jacksonville. Its former name was chosen because of trees; it was renamed when all of the trees along the street succumbed to., derived from the term fleshammels ('meat shelves' in butchers' stalls), is a historical street name which still exists in various cities and towns around.
The best-known example is in.The unusual etymologies of quite a few street names in the United Kingdom are documented in, complete with photographs of local.Type of commerce or industry. Smith Street/La Rue des Forges refers to the blacksmiths' forges that were formerly situated in this street in GuernseyIn the past, many streets were named for the type of commerce or industry found there. This rarely happens in modern times, but many such older names are still common. Examples are London's; Barcelona's Carrer de Moles (Millstone Street), where the stonecutters used to have their shops; and in Monterey, California.Landmarks Some streets are named for that were in the street, or nearby, when it was built. Such names are often retained after the landmark disappears.Barcelona's is officially a series of streets. The Rambla de Canaletes is named after a fountain that still stands, but the Rambla dels Estudis is named after the Estudis Generals, a university building demolished in 1843, and the Rambla de Sant Josep, the Rambla dels Caputxins, and the Rambla de Santa Monica are each named after former convents. Only the convent of Santa Monica survives as a building, and it has been converted to a museum.
Was named for the orchards that formerly lined the roadSometimes a street is named after a landmark that was destroyed to build that very street. For example, New York's takes its name from a canal that was filled in to build it. New Orleans' was named for the canal that was to be built in its right-of-way.Self-descriptive names While names such as Long Road or Nine Mile Ride have an obvious meaning, some road names' etymologies are less clear. The various Stone Streets, for example, were named at a time when the art of building paved (stone) had been lost. The main road through, UK, is called 'Straight Road', and it is straight where it carries that name. Many streets with regular nouns rather than proper nouns, are somehow related to that noun. For example, Station Street or Station Road, do connect to a railway station, and many 'Railway Streets' or similar do end at, cross or parallel a railway.
Sometimes the ordinary-sounding name is actually a proper noun. Many roads are named after a Mr Hill or Mrs King and similar.Destination Many roads (particularly in the UK, Australia, the northeastern US, and southern Ontario, Canada) are given the name of the place to which they lead. However, there are also many examples of streets named after a city that is many miles away and has no obvious link to the street.When the roads do still make it to their stated destination, the names are often changed when they get closer to the destination. Hartford Avenue in, becomes Wethersfield Avenue in, for example. A road can switch names multiple times as local opinion changes regarding its destination: for example, the road between and changes name five times from the to the Oxford Road and back again as it passes through villages.Some streets are named after the areas that the street connects.
For example, Clarcona Ocoee Road links the communities of Clarcona and Ocoee in, and Jindivick–Neerim South Road links the towns of Jindivick and in, Australia.Some roads are named after their general direction, such as 'Great North Road'.are often named after the town they route traffic around, for example the.Distinguished or famous individuals. Fifth Avenue and E 57th Street in New YorkIn many cities laid out on a, the streets are named to indicate their location on a. For example, the for provided for numbered streets running parallel to the minor axis of the island and numbered and lettered avenues running parallel to the long axis of the island, although many of the avenues have since been assigned names for at least part of their courses.
In the city plan for, north-south streets were numbered away from the in both directions, while east-west streets were lettered away from the Capitol in both directions and diagonal streets were named after various States of the Union. As the city grew, east-west streets past W Street were given two-syllable names in alphabetical order, then three-syllable names in alphabetical order, and finally names relating to flowers and shrubs in alphabetical order. Even in communities not laid out on a grid, such as, a grid-based naming system is still sometimes used to give a semblance of order.Often, the run east-west and the numbered avenues north-south, following the style adopted in Manhattan, although this is not always observed. In some cases, streets in 'half-blocks' in between two consecutive numbered streets have a different designator, such as Court or Terrace, often in an organized system where courts are always between streets and terraces between avenues. Sometimes yet another designator (such as 'Way', 'Place', or 'Circle') is used for streets which go at a diagonal or curve around, and hence do not fit easily in the grid.In many cases, the correspond to the numbered cross streets; for instance, an address of 1600 may be near 16th Street or 16th Avenue.
In a city with both lettered and numbered streets, such as Washington, D.C., the 400 block may be between 4th and 5th streets or between D and E streets, depending on the direction in which the street in question runs. However, addresses in Manhattan have no obvious relationship to cross streets or avenues, although various tables and formulas are often found on maps and travel guides to assist in finding addresses.Examples of grid systems:. In, all roads running east/west are given 'Avenue' designations, while those running north/south are given 'Street' designations.
Sometimes, additional designations are given based on physical characteristics of the road (for example, 6th Avenue Parkway and Monaco Street Parkway both contain large medians consisting of trees and walkways). Denver carries numbered Avenues north of Ellsworth, the center of the address system in Denver. Broadway carries alphabetical streets east and west. For example, 100 North Broadway is at First Avenue and Broadway. Alternately, 100 West Ellsworth is at Ellsworth and Acoma Street.
In, the road system is generally based on the headquarters of. Salt Lake City is also known to have a number-based naming system. For example, one may find the address of a local store at 4570 South 4000 West, where 4000 West (or 40th West) is the name of the street and 4570 is the number on the building.
This means the store is approximately 45 blocks south of the LDS temple, and 40 blocks west of the LDS temple. Similar are used in other Utah cities and towns.
Some towns in follow the same practice, as do many cities and towns in eastern. The, grid system extends throughout the entire city and into some of its suburbs. It divides the city into four quadrants, with the zero point being the intersection of (0 E/W) and (0 N/S) in the. All streets bear a directional prefix indicating their position relative to State and Madison, which is never omitted when writing an address (and rarely in speech). 'Blocks', which have a range of 100 numbers, are approximately 1/8 mile long (except between Madison and 31st Streets, where blocks are slightly shorter, given a three-mile distance between the streets).
Many neighborhoods have intermediate blocks at 1/16 mile intervals as well. The most important streets occur every mile (i.e.
Every 800 numbers), with secondary streets at half-mile intervals. North-south streets are always named, while east-west streets are named on the North Side and numbered on the South Side. Most City of Chicago residents know at least a few of the major streets and their grid positions (i.e.
North Avenue = 1600 N, Cicero Avenue = 4800 W). Thus addresses in Chicago are commonly given two ways: in Cartesian coordinates (3400 North, 2800 West) or as number and name (3324 North California), with the expectation that the nearest cross street, or at least the distance from State Street or Madison Streets can be appropriately deduced from the address number (i.e. 3324 N = slightly more than 4 miles north of State and Madison Streets).
Diagonal streets are given directional suffixes based on whether their angle is more vertical or more horizontal, and their numbering corresponds with the rest of the grid. In, and the suburbs to the north, major roads were generally built every mile, and many of the east-west roads are numbered in the based on their distance from the start of Michigan Avenue. These roads are named with 'Mile Road', from 5 Mile to 37 Mile. Addresses in much of the area are counted from the beginning of Woodward Avenue in Detroit, with roughly 2000 addresses assigned per mile, not coinciding with the Mile Road numbers; for instance, 8 Mile is the 20700 block, not 800 or 8000. In 's Central Business District, the streets were laid out in what has become known as the. It is 1.6 km long by half a mile wide.80 km (1 mile by.5 miles.) The major streets are 1.5 chains wide (30m) and halfway between the city's major thoroughfares that run parallel to the are the 'little' streets.
These streets share the same name as the major street to the south (Flinders St, Flinders Lane; Collins Street, Little Collins Street; Bourke Street, Little Bourke Street; Lonsdale Street, Little Lonsdale Street; and finally La Trobe Street) and are only half a chain wide. This means that in modern times they are only one way streets, but they allow each city block to be exactly 10 chains square. Many Melbournians are able to recite the 19 streets that make up the Hoddle Grid in order.Grammar In languages that have, the specific part of a road name is typically in the or, meaning 'the road of Name'. Where the specific is an adjective (as in 'High Street'), however, it is inflected to match the generic.Street renaming. Names are sometimes changed for purposes. A street that began as 'Two White Doves' in 1872 was renamed in 1896, in 1922, for in 1930, Svetogorska again in 1943, for in 1946, and Svetogorska again in 1997.Street names can usually be changed relatively easily by municipal authorities for various reasons.
Sometimes streets are renamed to reflect a changing or previously unrecognized ethnic community or to honour politicians or local heroes.A changed political regime can trigger widespread changes in street names – many changed following their independence in 1980 with streets named after British colonists being changed to those of Zimbabwean nationalist leaders. Street name sign adapted toSometimes, when communities are consolidated, the streets are renamed according to a uniform system. For example, when the community of ceased to have even a nominal existence independent of Washington, D.C., the streets in Georgetown were as an extension of Washington's street-naming convention. Also, when leaders of Arlington County, Virginia, asked the to place the entire county in the 'Arlington, Virginia' postal area, the Post Office refused to do so until the county adopted a uniform addressing and street-naming system, which the county did in 1932.In 1906, renamed streets to a numbered system.
For an example Erie Street became East 9th Street, Bond Street became East 6th Street, and so forth. In Cleveland and its suburbs, all north-south streets are numbered from Cleveland's Public Square and east-west streets are numbered from the northernmost point in, which is in the City of., and Chagrin Falls do not adhere to the grid rules of Cleveland. In 1981 Cleveland's Liberty Blvd was renamed Martin Luther King Blvd.In the borough of Queens, New York, a huge street renaming campaign began in the early 20th century, changing almost all of the street names into numbers, in accordance with the adoption of a new unified scheme. A confusing aspect of this massive transformation was that some of the local subway stations retained their names, instead of changing with their corresponding street(s); a few examples survive even today. A curious example is that of 23rd Street - Ely Avenue Station; Ely Avenue was renamed 23rd Street long before the subway station was even constructed.
Drakewood Drive in. A 'drive' denoting private, residential roadStreets can be divided into various types, each with its own general style of construction and purpose. However, the difference between streets, roads, avenues and the like is often blurred and is not a good indicator of the size, design, or content of the area. Many transportation facilities have a suffix which designates it a 'street', 'road', 'court', etc., and these designations may or may not have any meaning or pattern in the particular jurisdiction.In the many towns will refer to their main thoroughfare as the, and many of the ways leading off it will be suffixed 'Road'.In some other English-speaking countries, such as New Zealand and Australia, cities are often divided by a main 'Road', with 'Streets' leading from this 'Road', or are divided by thoroughfares known as 'Streets' or 'Roads' with no apparent differentiation between the two. In, for example, the main shopping precinct is around and, and the main urban thoroughfare connecting the south of the city to the city centre is.In Australia and New Zealand, some streets are called parades.
Parade: A public promenade or roadway with good pedestrian facilities along the side. Examples: Peace Celebration Parade, Marine Parade, King Edward Parade, Oriental Parade and dozens more. However, this term is not used in North America (with the exception of Marine Parade in ). Houndsditch, an example of a street name with no suffix in theIn the, according to tradition, there are no 'Roads'; all the streets there are called 'Street', 'Lane', 'Court', 'Hill', 'Row' or 'Alley', or have no suffix (e.g. However, since 1994, part of Goswell Road now lies in the City of London, making this a unique anomaly.In and the south side of and, east-west streets are 'Streets' whereas North-South streets are 'Avenues'. Yet in and, all of the east-west streets are 'Avenues' and the North-South streets are 'Streets' (Memphis has one exception—the historic runs east-west).
On the north and northeast side of Minneapolis, the street grids vary. In North Minneapolis, numbered avenues run east-west (33rd Avenue N) and numbered streets run north-south (6th Street N) but named avenues run north-south (Washburn Avenue N).
In Northeast Minneapolis, avenues run east-west (15th Avenue NE) and streets run north-south (Taylor Street NE), except for the major east-west artery Broadway Street and the major north-south avenues Central and University.In rural, numbered form grids oriented to lakes and rivers. Usually each axis of the grid has its own suffix, for example 'Roads' for east-west roads and 'Lines' for north-south roads. Some townships have roads with two numbers, e.g. '15/16 Sideroad', which refer to the lot numbers on both sides of the roads.On sprawling military reservations with tank schools such as and there are dedicated 'Tank Roads' and 'Cut-offs'.In, 'avenue' (used for major streets in other cities) generally indicates a small, tree-lined, low-traffic residential street.
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Exceptions exist, such as. Both are major thoroughfares in the city.In older British cities, names such as 'vale', normally associated with smaller roads, may become attached to major thoroughfares as roads are upgraded (e.g. In London).In the in the 1970s and 1980s there was a trend to not use the street type suffix at all, resulting in street names like (translated) ' and '.
Contents.Formation and transmission of names All the names in this section come to us only through persons whose first language was and only rarely knew any other. From the few sources who were bilingual, we are fortunate to have some concept of how some of the names were segmented in the languages from which they came. Those names often tend to predominate in lists such as these, just because they are more easily understood.Most names were received by English settlers who had little idea what they meant. Being naturally curious, they asked the natives what the names meant or conjectured among themselves or both. The natives were faced with having to explain the name in a language they knew but rudimentarily. They interpreted freely, often giving the use or features of interest about the place rather than trying to explain the elements of their language to the English.
They never had a linguist's understanding of the structure of their language. Their descendants, speaking primarily English, no longer knew how to produce meaningful utterances in the language of their native forefathers.Consequently, the names can be divided into roughly two categories: those for which the original is known to some degree and those for which it is not. The meanings of the latter category are traditional only, but the tradition may not necessarily descend from a native speaker. It may have been a settler's conjecture, passed on through the social mechanism of the sacred words of the forefathers or simply because no other interpretation was available.The mechanism can be seen most clearly in names for which both categories of meaning exist. You might read that a name is supposed to mean 'the place of portage' or 'the pines' when in fact those meanings are not even implied by the morphology of the name. It is entirely possible, however, that those places were used for those purposes. On the other hand, some settler may have guessed that they were used for those purposes.
In cases where there is no morphology there is little point in argument over the 'correct meaning' of the name, an activity enjoyed by New Englanders since settlement times, and which also you will undoubtedly see much of in Wikipedia.New England in the early 17th century when English colonists first landed was tenanted by variously named tribes for the most part speaking languages of the. Our aboriginals spoke an eastern branch of the group.
It often happened that whole regions were named after the tribe inhabiting it, such as Massachusetts, nor does this appear to have been an English naming convention only. In this the aboriginals were non-different from the tribes of classical Europe, whose names still dot the map of Europe.Like the tribal names of Europe, the native names descended from an antiquity long lost. The natives themselves may not have known what they meant.