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Ireland. The origins of the Street name come from when the Anglo-Saxon tribes ruled over Britain. The name Street was originally derived from a family having lived in any of a number of places called Street, in Herefordshire, Kent and Somerset. 1. Street is a local surname, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames.
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The street is a public easement, one of the few shared between all sorts of people. As a component of the built environment as ancient as human habitation, the street sustains a range of activities vital to civilization. Its roles are as numerous and diverse as its ever-changing cast of characters. Streets can be loosely categorized as main ...
Sparks named a street on his land after a friend, Daniel O' CONNOR, who became Treasurer of the Dalhousie District (later Ottawa-Carleton) and another after his son-in-law, James SLATER Slater Street was first named Waugh Street, after a local merchant Caldwell Waugh., James Slater came to Canada about 1830, married Sparks' daughter in 1847 and went on to be, successively, Provincial Land ...
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The information on how streets got their names is out there, but it’s scattered far and wide, often in Actual Books™. I couldn’t just plug into an API and get back a big JSONfile and break for lunch. I used a handful of old books as my starting point, but I also found myself digging through old newspaper clippings, military cemetery records, histor...
Diving into the histories forced me to start considering what was actually worth putting on a map like this (are you sensing a “lack of forethought” theme here?). Some street names have backstories that are available but pretty banal. You have lots of streets with utterly self-explanatory names (e.g. Sea View Terrace). In San Francisco’s case, you ...
With data like this, reliability is a huge issue. Histories from the frontier days are often more urban legend than fact, and with something like street names in particular, you find lots of cases where someone has just made an educated guess based on the name without any primary source to back it up. I discovered plenty of “facts” that didn’t stan...
You can see how Street families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Street family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Street families were found in United Kingdom in 1891. In 1840 there were 29 Street families living in Ohio. This was about 10% of all the recorded Street's ...
People with the surname. Adrian Street (1940–2023), Welsh wrestler. Alan Street (born 1982), British figure skater. Alfred Street (cricket umpire) (1869–1951), English cricketer. Alfred Billings Street (1811–1881), American poet. Alicia Street (1911–2016), née Kumpula, an American editor and author. Andy Street (born 1963), British ...
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Street art, to a certain extent, is connected to and encompasses graffiti art. Key dates: ca. 1960s – ongoing. Key regions: originated from the metropolises of the United States, especially New York City and Philadelphia, now spread around the world. Keywords: graffiti, subway art, guerilla art, public art, urban art, large scale murals.
