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  2. Street name - Wikipedia

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    A street name is an identifying name ... Themed names are popular in suburban subdivisions. ... contains a street naming system based on names of trees planted on ...

  3. List of Philadelphia placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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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

  4. Avenue (landscape) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. The most unique street names in the world - AOL

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    Click through our gallery to take a look at some other unusual street name: Street names were submitted by users and then verified via MapQuest. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.

  6. Mysteries of Milwaukee street names explained, from ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.

  8. Streets Named After Presidents: By Popularity, Home Prices - AOL

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    The median value of the more than 17,000 U.S. homes located on a Coolidge street is $176,330, the only presidential street with national median home values higher than the December 2013 national ...

  9. Elm - Wikipedia

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    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.