Streets named after your family

Started by inkyatari, March 17, 2017, 09:12:28 AM

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inkyatari

Do any of you have streets named after your family?

In the 50's or 60's my dad and my uncle bought some property in the Higgins Lake region of Michigan, in Roscommon county. Eventually, the county started plotting out subdivisions, and then started naming streets after the largest property owners in the area, and lo and behold, a street was named after us.

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roadman

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There's a Timmins Road in Bow, NH, where a number of my cousins used to live.  May just be coincidence, but OTOH ...
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My last name is not all that uncommon and I know of quite a few streets with it as a name, but I'm sure there's no connection.
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Max Rockatansky

There are some roads in Maryland that have my family name and was largely where my Dad's side of the family came from.  I would assume that there is a link given that it isn't exactly common...and no it isn't Rockatansky.  :rolleyes:

jwolfer

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My grandmothers only brother died in WWII and the town( township for the hyper technical among us) where they grew up, West Orange, NJ names all new streets for those from there who die in combat. So there is a Bayowski Rd in West Orange, NJ.. No name is not Polish its Ukrainian

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Inyomono395

I don't personally have any streets named after my family, but where I live we have a fairly large size Indian Reservation and all the street are named after the original families.

mhh

Saal Road in Sterling Heights, Michigan is named for my great-grandfather, Albert Saal. His farmhouse, built in the nineteenth century, still stands along the road.

empirestate

If family tradition is correct, which I haven't been able to verify, that Commodores Matthew and Oliver Perry are ancestors of ours, then likely a bunch of streets are named for them. Certainly, many towns and settlements are.

Another likelihood is Thomas Doane, another prominent (and confirmed) ancestor. Look in Crete, NE for possible streets named after him.


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jp the roadgeek

No specific streets named after my family, although there is a street a couple of towns over that has my surname, as well as a town in Kansas.
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ColossalBlocks

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My dad's side of the family lived on Fairhurst Street for a while.

I guess i should specify a bit more.

This was in Joliet, Illinois (most of my dad's side is from Illinois). Sadly they redesignated the street.




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I'm not aware of any street bearing my last name in my father's hometown, though a lot of my family is from there.

There is a street with my mother's maiden name in the city where I grew up.
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Quote from: jwolfer on March 17, 2017, 05:04:07 PM
My grandmothers only brother died in WWII and the town( township for the hyper technical among us) where they grew up, West Orange, NJ names all new streets for those from there who die in combat. So there is a Bayowski Rd in West Orange, NJ.. No name is not Polish its Ukrainian

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Ooh, I have some Ukranian ancestry too!
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Quote from: epzik8 on March 19, 2017, 10:27:46 PM
Quote from: jwolfer on March 17, 2017, 05:04:07 PM
My grandmothers only brother died in WWII and the town( township for the hyper technical among us) where they grew up, West Orange, NJ names all new streets for those from there who die in combat. So there is a Bayowski Rd in West Orange, NJ.. No name is not Polish its Ukrainian

LGMS428
Ooh, I have some Ukranian ancestry too!
Very cool. You know they say that Ukrainians are good looking

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Rothman

Roth Street in Bethlehem, PA is probably named after distant relatives of mine.
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Anything named after Whittaker In trenton is named after an ancestor of mine from Trenton. Ancestry.com results via my grandmother confirmed it.
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epzik8

Well, based on Google Maps searches, there are a couple of back roads in Pennsylvania that bear my surname, but they aren't actually named after any family member or ancestor of mine.
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My aunt & uncle lived on a street that was their surname - Schiestle Rd - right off of PA-58 in the shadow of the SE quadrant of the I-80/I-79 cloverleaf.
Not sure if the road was a product of any kind of re-locations for the interstates or not.
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There's a Barton Lane in La Crescenta, California, that shares my last name.
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At what age do you tell a highway that it's been adopted?

GaryV

My wife grew up on a farm that was located on a road named for the family.  Her gg-grandfather was one of the original settlers of the area.

And when we went to Maine, we found several roads and other features bearing family names that we knew from her genealogy.  Her ancestors founded a town in Maine just 8 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

hobsini2

I have actually 2 primary (Hobson Rd and Bailey Rd) and then a bunch of subdivision type streets (Hobson Mill Dr, etc.) named after my 4 times great grandfather, Bailey Hobson in the Naperville IL area who was an original settler in Naperville. For those familiar with Naperville, he at one time owned all the land from what is now Washington St to Olesen Rd and from 75th St to Chicago Ave. His mill stone, now a park, is just north of the corner of Washington and Hobson. He also owned a traveler's inn at the southeast corner of what is now Washington and Chicago. If you drive along Washington St in Downtown Naperville, it is the building with a city mural on it.
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inkyatari

Quote from: hobsini2 on March 26, 2017, 02:31:07 PM
I have actually 2 primary (Hobson Rd and Bailey Rd) and then a bunch of subdivision type streets (Hobson Mill Dr, etc.) named after my 4 times great grandfather, Bailey Hobson in the Naperville IL area who was an original settler in Naperville. For those familiar with Naperville, he at one time owned all the land from what is now Washington St to Olesen Rd and from 75th St to Chicago Ave. His mill stone, now a park, is just north of the corner of Washington and Hobson. He also owned a traveler's inn at the southeast corner of what is now Washington and Chicago. If you drive along Washington St in Downtown Naperville, it is the building with a city mural on it.
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Way cool.
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Bruce

Had to travel all the way to Berlin, but I found a street that was just close enough to my last name to count (no relation, of course).

Neat thing is that some street signs in Berlin have the name, birthdate and deathdate of the person it is named after. No clue who this man is, but I'm inclined to research about him now (barring my access to German sources).


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elsmere241

In Cambridge, Ohio, numbered streets run north-south, and named avenues run east-west.  Apparently those avenues are named for the families that founded the town, because two of them (Beatty and Gomber) I'm descended from.

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