In Mattapan, Lorna Road intersects with Doone Avenue.
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By anon
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 11:24am
I never get tired of the intersection of Fuller and Brush (Hill) Road in Milton. Plus they're so rich they have Dollar (as opposed to Penny) Lane
Woonsocket, RI
By Ron Newman
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 12:08pm
has the intersection of [url=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=social+and+privileg... and Privilege[/url] streets.
Summer and Winter...
By dmcboston
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 12:34pm
...is there. Boston has another Summer and Winter.
Combine them into Spring St. (or Fall St.) then rename the street in West Roxbury.
The sun & the moon
By Lunchbox
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 1:35pm
Moon St intersects with Sun Court in the N End
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Square_(Boston,_Massachusetts)
there is the infamous corner
By pierce
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 5:33pm
there is the infamous corner of Bow and Arrow in Cambridge, which has the added delight of being very bow and arrow like in shape on a map (aimed at MIT, too)
Maybe we can have some google
By Anon
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 11:25am
Maybe we can have some google sleuths figure out which came first - the street name or the book which was published in 1869. I'm pretty sure Kraft named the cookie after the fictional character.
Ward Maps
By Allstonian
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 1:17pm
I just spent way more time than I should have poking around Dorchester maps on wardmaps.com - Lorna Road appeared first, on a 1918 Atlas of the City of Boston; at that time, the cross street between Lena Terrace and Tiverton Road was called Marie Street. By 1933, it had been renamed Doone Avenue.
The streets were in the
By NotWhitey
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 1:25pm
The streets were in the planning stage in 1910, and the first few houses were built by 1918. Doone street was originally Marie street.
No wonder why!
By jonbowen
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 12:01pm
You know, I just helped a client close on a piece of land last month on Lena Terrace which is right off of Lorna Road and is the next perpendicular street to Doone Avenue. I kept on looking at that intersection on Google Maps wondering what the weird feeling I was getting to that intersection was. Thanks for identifying it! Ha!
How I heard about it
By adamg
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 12:13pm
I was listening to the police scanner this morning (as is my wont). Some guy police were looking for showed up there and at one point the dispatcher said something like "attention officers at Lorna and Doone ..."
Maybe the 3 Stooges reference? Gets me every time
By anon
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 1:21pm
Shemp: What's your name?
Girl: Lorna Doone
Shemp: Hey Lorna, how ya Doone?
Scotched in Scotland
one of my faves
By Sarcastic Sam
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 1:35pm
When I was a kid I thought that scene was a tribute to the shortbread cookie by the same name!
Street sign with both names on it?
By Ron Newman
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 12:01pm
If any of you live near there, can you walk or bike by it and see if there's a street sign that has both streets on it? Then take a photo and post it here? (I can't find one on Google Street View, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.)
Cookie Box
By dmcboston
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 12:43pm
Years ago the FD called the location 'the cookie box.' I was there at work years ago when the airplane hit.
More on the plane crash
By adamg
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 1:11pm
Plane Crash Kills Head Of Firm That Developed Westlake Center.
Street-naming resources?
By anon
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 12:47pm
How does one find out when and for what (or whom) streets were named? There are a bunch that I've always wondered about.
There are no records kept
By NotWhitey
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 5:55pm
There are no records kept regarding how a street was named. In this case, they were girls names, and Marie was changed later to Doone.
Boston Street History
By Div2Supt
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 6:15pm
Perhaps not quite what you are looking for, but this edition of the street directory gives tons of data on previous names of streets, date(s) planned and laid out, etc. This is the 1910 edition, but archive.org has later editions up to 1976.
http://books.google.com/books?id=MOpIAAAAMAAJ&prin...
Of course Mattapan has streets named for a cookie
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 6:26pm
They wouldn't have streets named for a cracker.
No Such Agency
By DebGeisler
Tue, 03/12/2013 - 4:57pm
In Fort Meade, Md., the NSA "welcome" center (leading to the main NSA campus) is at the intersection of Savage and Canine Roads.
(They prefer to pronounce the latter as "kuh-nine." But we know better.)
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