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BANCROFT ROAD
In 1905 the part of Gardener Avenue between Main Street and Holt Road was naned Reservoir Street. Reservoir Street was changed to Bancroft Road in 1910 on the petition of George F. Cheever. The Pearson-Bancroft- Cheover house was built before the present road was put through and the back of the house was made the front of the house to conform to the new layout of the road. (The family name of Ons. gro. F. Cheever was Bancroft.) IALLARDVALE ROAD
I have previously spoken of Ballardvale Road being called at ono time 20th Street. In a layout of ballardvale Road recorded in 1829 among the landmarks it mentions a yellow oak tree. I wonder how many people would know a yellow oak tree today if they saw one. At any rate Ballardvale hoad is on the 1830 map.
WILDWOOD ROAD
That part of it from Main Street to Holt Road has been variously called D'Arcy and Converse according to the influence of the people who lived on it.
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ALDERBROOK ROAD
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Alderbrook Road through Alderbrook estates and there was a brook and alders. I believe the road is not yet continued over the brook through to Sunset Rock Road.
The land over which it runs was the house farm of my grandfather, Jeremiah Goldsmith (1799, th 1864); my father William G. Goldsmith was born there and continued to liver there through the first year of his marriage 1865-66 and owned the land until 1909. The house in which my father was born in 1832 was moved to Summer Street (now No. 87) when the "new house" was built when he was 10 years old.
All the farm buildings with the exception of the corn barn were burned while he was teaching in Phillips Academy (1870-1871) and living at
9 Salem Street. For years no use was made of the land except as the pasturage was let and the hay sold.
During the latter years of my father's life-he died in 1900-he spent many happy days there raising small crops, laying up the stone walls, clearing the field savin from the old pastures and reviewing in his minds eye the days of his childhood and youth. The corn barn was fitted , up as a camp house, a shelter for him in cold or stormy weather and for many seasons the place for the whole family to entertain their friends-
literally hundreds of them, the Natural History Society, the Historical Entering class at
Society, groups from the November Club, the fall outing of the Abbot Murillo
Acadamy, Miss Marie Russells French Class and many smaller and more
intimate groups. The names in the guest book-more than 800-were entered between 1904 and 1910 and there were many parties before we had a guest book.
A favorite form of entertainment in the late summer and early fall was a corn roast preceded by a supper at the camphouse, often baked beans and an apple pan dowdy with an abundance of coffee for which the evening never found too hot. The pastures were soon alight with several bonfires the field savin providing a brilliant blaze with convenient piles of sweet corn from the near by garden.
Corn roasted on a stick was usually preferred and it was no small task to cut the sticks of speckled alder along the brook and sharpen the ends.
Then marshamallows were toasted and while the older members of the group
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My mother thought it was time the camp had a name and chose Alderbrook. The name clung to the real estate development and later to the road. The large gathering of Historical Societies in July 20, 1904 was probably the first time an automobile made its way down the lane to the car pasture where the group assembled for their formal program. That is about where the present road now runs.
One other favorite led diversion for a hot summer night was to board one of the "new" electric cars transferring to the branch line to North Reading where one might ride back and forth on the "front seat" till the last car-no fares collected on the branch line!
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HITCH STREET
The course of High Street was changed in 1856 on petition of Jeremiah Goldsmith and others "from near post office (Campions Corner) to the old track near the Boston & Kaine following the old tracks to cross the airline recently laid out from North Andover to Lawrence thence extending; to Sutton's Mills in North Andover,"
It is said that High Street was once called Jug Lane. On the 1830 map its continuation after it crossed what is now Walnut Avenue was more toward the west not far from the Shawsheen River possibly over what is now Burnham Road to Fryer Villere.
CARMEL ROAD
In 1898 the Town Warrant included an article asking for $1000 to purchase from John Flint the temporary entrance to Carmel woods ( ie entrance from High Street) and a new entrance from Walnut Avenue, In 1901 the street was accepted from Walnut Avenue to Carmel woods and $500 was appropriated.
There is still an unaccepted portion of Carmel Road running from Elm Street to Walnut venue.
TUE THAM ROAD
Burnham Road was once called Als Street because it ran past what was then known as the "poor house"
It is so mentioned in the 1885 and 1891 firectories. I think that its name was changed to Burnham Road about 1899 when George L. Burnham was superintendent of the Almshouse when it was located on that street.
MILTON ROID
Dufton Road is named after George Dufton, a builder and contractor, who developed it.
It was accepted by the Town in 1927
SHAWEH EN VILLA IE
Many of the Scotch names of the streets in Shawsheen Village are thanks to William M. Wood and his friend Wallace.
This is a listing of the streets and the years in which they were accepted. 1) Ferit Cuales John Filmit's fuld, within my memory used as a cow fastine, was laid out in houseluts by Edward Halk, contractor. The street was accepted in 1839- Im 1869 the Town considered having the land on the east side of the Old Railroad designated as It. Carmel cemetery and set apart for all time as a buniel place for the dead."
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Enmore -- 1926
Tletchor -- 1926
Sterling -- 1926
Ayer -- 1926
Linnet -- 1926
Canterbury -- 1921 & 1933
Warwick -- 1921 Balmoral -- 1921
Carlisle -- 1926 soulti
Riverina I.d .-- 1926
The end of Poor Street was discontinued in 1899.
Sherborne Street was accepted in 1932 and Developments on the Joyce property are Joyce Terrace 1899; Castle Heights use named after the Joyce stone mansion, very grand when it was built and now torn down.
SIWOHIN ROAD
The Essex County records of 1829 mention a road from Mayo's Tavern to Lowell through the manufacturing villaro and by the West Parish meeting house. It was thought that the road from Andover to Lowell was too "circuitous and hilly" and that it should be made "shorter and better". It is described as commencing by land of Elijar Herrick over land of Herrich, Amos, Abbot, Paschal Abbot, Herman Abbot, and Solomon Holt as near as maybe in a straight line and ending at a road near the West Parish meeting house to be built before January 1 24 ft. wide and crowned in the middle 4 ft to 1 yd. The specifications go on to cut down hills and raise "vallies". Where there is a loam deposit, 6 inches of gravel is to be spread. Where there is a brook a stone bridge is to be made and raised so high that the water shall not overflow at any season of the year.
In 1837 there was an article in the Warrant to see if the Town would raise sufficient money to take down the hill between Abrehan Marlands and the home of Ed Herrick.
The voters seem to have always been complaining about the roadway near what is now the junction of Shawsheen hoad and Stevens Street and our Board of Public Works is still working at it.
Kenilworth -- 1926 Ar yle -- 1926 Carisbrook@-1926 Arundel-1926
Warwick to william 1924 Shepley -- 1926
4 Sherborne -- 1926 1
Kensington -- 1926 Dunbarton -- 1926 Windsor -- 1921 Sutherland -- 1926
York -- 1926 Magnolia Ave .-- 1922
Millian 1921. 1926
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Lovell Strest past the house of George Buchan.
The article asked that it be named Lincoln Street:
AROTINASROAD
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This road seems to date from about 1802. Argil means clay. The road i was named after a road in Ipswich by George baker whosecancestor Dr. Symonds Baker came from Ipswich where there were bods of clay and there may be some on our road in Andover. He lived in the Abbott Baker house now owned by Sidney white.
You may think I haven't riven enough attention to the streets in ballardvalo and West Andover.
Alfred Poor writes in 1364, "Most of this village was built between 1843 and 1043 and a large part of it in 1847 the time the machine shop was built. During the first fifteen years of Ballardvale when John Marland was the enterprising and liberal actor here, it continued lively and flourishing. Then all the streets were laid out and about every building was orected that is here now."
Whether the streets were officially "accepted" I don't know for in 1865 a motion to accept Marland, Center, and Village Streets in Ballardvale was indefinitely postponed.
In 1868 the road over Preston's Pain wis widened.
With the exception of 1926 when 18 new streeta were accepted and the building in Shawsh en Villa e was at high tide, 1954 will be the banner year for the acceptance of now streets when there will be 13. You will be able to tell your randchildreninthat you were present at the Town Meeting when Alden Rd, Lantern Rd, "itmeg lio., Cassimare St., Forbes Lane, Karlton Cir., Henderson Ave., Jutiper Rd., Linwood St., Lockway nd, Shirley Rd., and Theodore Ave. were accepted.
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Gold Road and Harold Parker Road-once called Wall Street In Number of, 847 there was a controversy on the road which now begins as Gould Road, i to northem branch continuing as Harold Parker Road at that time it was described as beginning at the easterly side of the Boston Turnpike near the house of Stephen Emerson, thence easterly by the sawmill of Ebenezer Jenhair and the dwelling home of William Jenkins to the County erad leading from Mouth andover to Reading. It was thought necessary because of the increased travel between middleton. and Ballardvele. That was when Ballardvale war" a givning place and construction was going in. By - Pass Built in 1930
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