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Started by hm insulators, December 08, 2010, 12:20:54 PM

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Streetman

Quote from: mgk920 on November 10, 2023, 12:13:31 PM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on November 10, 2023, 05:31:18 AM
Quote from: Streetman on November 09, 2023, 03:30:48 PM
Perhaps it's time to rename Redskins Ave.

First it should be Football Team Ave. for two years :sombrero:.

I checked the map, that development doesn't even have  street with such a name.  They don't even have a street named for the local Colts.

Mike

Zoom in a notch. It's between Vikings Ln. and Touchdown Ave.


Streetman

In honor of Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day for the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918, I'd like to mention a group of four streets in my hometown, Hamden CT, connected to that war. Marne St. intersects Foch, Pershing, and Haig streets. French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, U.S. General John J. Pershing, an British Field Marshal Douglas Haig all commanded at the Battles of the Marne.

Within a half-mile of these streets are other groups of streets associated with particular wars. For the Spanish-American war there are Oregon, Manila, and Bagley avenues. The battleship USS Oregon was deployed in Manila Bay, and Worth Bagley was the only American naval officer killed in action in that war. There are Lexington and Concord streets, both sites of Revolutionary War battles, with Beacon St. between them, possibly a reference to Beacon Hill. Finally, and rather tenuously, there are Merrimac and Carrington streets. Henry B. Carrington, born in nearby Wallingford, was a Union general of relatively minor importance in the Civil War, and the USS Merrimack was rebuilt by the Confederacy to fight the USS Monitor in the first battle of ironclad ships.

All these streets are on this map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.35463/-72.92889

freebrickproductions

In southeast Huntsville, AL, there's a neighborhood that's got streets all named after King Arthur characters, in a neighborhood that is fittingly-named Camelot, except for Guenevere Avenue, which is quite clearly supposed to be Guinevere, but someone misspelled the name and it wasn't caught.
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Quote from: freebrickproductions on November 11, 2023, 11:03:56 AM
In southeast Huntsville, AL, there's a neighborhood that's got streets all named after King Arthur characters, in a neighborhood that is fittingly-named Camelot, except for Guenevere Avenue, which is quite clearly supposed to be Guinevere, but someone misspelled the name and it wasn't caught.

According to this, it's just an alternate spelling, used for example in the musical Camelot.
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Streetman

Quote from: freebrickproductions on November 11, 2023, 11:03:56 AM
In southeast Huntsville, AL, there's a neighborhood that's got streets all named after King Arthur characters, in a neighborhood that is fittingly-named Camelot, except for Guenevere Avenue, which is quite clearly supposed to be Guinevere, but someone misspelled the name and it wasn't caught.

My hometown, Hamden CT, has a Guenevere Ct. (so spelled) and Lancelot Way in the Camelot Woods subdivision.

Road Hog

A new subdivision just down the road from me in McKinney off the east side of Lake Forest has an astronomical theme, which I can dig. Bordered by the Fox Ridge subdivision on the south and a McKinney FD fire station on the north.

mrsman

In Las Vegas, at the southern end of the city (not the Strip), there are a series of streets named after the largest cities of the US at the time that they were laid out.

Based on wikipedia, the largest cities in the US at the 1900 census were:  New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, and Cincinnati.

The street order in Las Vegas is very close (north to south):  New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, San Francisco.  San Francisco was later renamed to Sahara Ave, after the hotel, and is a major thoroughfare.  The street order is exactly the same as the 1900 census, except for changing the position of the last three entries.


hotdogPi

How long is it going to be before there's a neighborhood named after famous YouTube or Instagram celebrities?
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epzik8

Quote from: hotdogPi on September 20, 2024, 02:50:32 PMHow long is it going to be before there's a neighborhood named after famous YouTube or Instagram celebrities?

I say by the end of the decade.
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boilerup25

Don't know if it's been said already, but Chicago has the Great Lakes streets (Huron, Michigan [Avenue], Ontario, Erie, Superior).

Egg Harbor City in New Jersey has streets named after famous German figures (pre-1900s). The avenues are named after port cities (Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cincinatti).

Pomona, NJ has plant-named streets from A to Z (Ash to Zenia), as well as presidential streets (Adams to Polk).

Flint1979

The Genesee Gardens which is a subdivision in Bridgeport Township has the streets going one direction named after a fruit and the streets going in the other direction named after a U.S. State.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3856119,-83.9090838,16.64z/data=!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

pderocco

Marina Del Rey, CA has marine-themed street names for the alleys perpendicular to the beach. As an added bonus, they're alphabetical: Anchorage, Buccaneer, Catamaran, Driftwood, Eastwind, Fleet, Galleon, Hurricane, Ironsides, Jib, Ketch, Lighthouse, Mast, Northstar, Outrigger, Privateer, Quarterdeck, Reef, Spinnaker, Topsail, Union Jack, Voyage, Westwind, Yawl. Just like the alphabetized streets in NW Portland OR, they could find an X or a Z.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/i562LPrRs8wLwHX98



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