[Genealib] Researching street names?

[David Walters]

You might find clues by locating the sud-division plat where your
street first appeared. The person who created the sud-division  quite
often picked the names of streets created therein. If that person had
no preferences, somtimes the surveyor of engineer
chose the names . the sub-dividers and the surveyor names will appear
on the plat. Many times they used names of family members or people
connected to themes or events that were of sigifiganace to t4hem

Daviwd
---- Original Message ----
From: bhill at calmail.berkeley.edu
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Researching street names?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:20:50 -0700

>Dear colleagues,
>
>I live in a small suburb (pop. appx. 24,000) incorporated about 1917.
> The 
>president of the local historical society has asked me to find out
>how the 
>street I live on came to be named.  Knowing that my neighborhood was 
>developed in the early to mid 1920s, and believing the name to be a 
>surname, I've checked the 1920 census and have formed a working
>hypothesis, 
>and I hope to locate a living descendant of the family soon who might
>be 
>able to verify it.  But during all this, I began to wonder, how is it
>that 
>researchers find out how, why, or for whom a particular street was 
>named?  Is there a regular process for doing this?  In other words, a
>short 
>cut?
>
>Thanks for any help -
>
>Barbara Hill
><bhill at calmail.berkeley.edu>
>
>
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