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One of William Penn's streets named after trees, this one named after the pine tree. Race Street: Originally called Sassafras Street, it was until the mid-19th century was often used as a horse race track, the era's equivalent of today's street racing. Eventually, Race Street became the street's official name. Reed Street
Streets in Brussels often have a Dutch name and a French name, both languages being official: for example "Bergstraat" (Dutch) and "Rue de la Montagne" (French), both meaning "Mountain Street". While the older streets were originally named in Dutch and calqued into French, some more recent ones, conceived in French, have been calqued into Dutch.
Tree avenue in Normandy, France An avenue at Alexandra Park, London. In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape ...
To answer readers' questions about Milwaukee street names, the Journal Sentinel turned to the man who wrote the book on the subject. Mysteries of Milwaukee street names explained, from ...
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Alderman believes Chicago may be the first city to name a street named after the activist. ... The many meanings of pink, from its rosy roots to modern-day pop culture status. Sports.
The street is where the baseball grandstands used to be. [10] Hamilton Avenue — named after Zeri Hamilton, an early San Jose pioneer, who bought the property off Meridian Avenue in 1850. Hamline Street — named in honor of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Leonidas Lent Hamline in 1866.
They were particularly popular as a street tree in avenue plantings in towns and cities, creating high-tunnelled effects. Their quick growth and variety of foliage and forms, [ 26 ] their tolerance of air-pollution, and the comparatively rapid decomposition of their leaf litter in the fall were further advantages.