Beach Boulevard, Mud Street, Sulphur Springs Road, Paradise Road, the Jolley Cut -- street names are a vivid and living embodiment of a city's history, of the dreams, passions and workaday concerns of its citizens. Love, murder, betrayal, political intrigue -- all are present in this engaging new book about Hamilton's past. Most Hamiltonians know that MacNab Street was named after Allan Napier MacNab, a famous native son, but who were the people who gave their names to James, King or Barton streets, Fennell Avenue, or Kitty Murray Lane? Street names offer a unique, meandering path through Hamilton's fascinating past, full of curious biographical culs-de-sac and occasional sweeping historical vistas. Hamilton Street Names includes more than 120 routes in the new city. Each alphabetically organized entry offers fascinating insights into the city's social, political, cultural or military history. Richly illustrated with archival photographs, this book offers fascinating views into the past of the new Hamilton.
The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins
... HAMILTON DRIVE/HAMILTON PARK AVENUE, West End These thoroughfares on the banks of the Kelvin east of Broadcasting House were named after John Hamilton who purchased the small estate of Northpark in 1799 and built Northpark House. (See ...
This road should not be confused with the earlier Ford Street (between High Street and North Boat Quay, now expunged. That road is now the site of the High Street Centre). The earlier Ford Street was named after Sir Theodore Thomas Ford ...
London Street Names uncovers the stories behind over 100 streets in locations such as Byron, Lambeth, and Westminster township. This book contains contributions from more than 25 of the city's leading local historians.
A Landmark History of New York: Also the Origin of Street Names and a Bibliography
Information covers entire Philadelphia county and city.
Milton Streets: The Stories Behind the Villages, Hamlets, Neighbourhoods and Roads
Welcome to the fascinating world of Chicago street names! Did you know that Ainslie Street was named after a real estate developer whose widow, in 1848, left for California to...
This is the first complete dictionary of Tallinn Street names since Aleksander Kivi's classic Estonian-language Tallinna Tanavad of 1972. It is also the first and only such dictionary in English."