The street names of suburban Washington have many stories to tell
And all this just a punt from Washington Commanders HQ.
In my column last month I wrote that street names don’t just burble up out of the ground. Some human has to come up with them. Well, not always, wrote“I live in an area in Montgomery County known as Granby Woods,” Bob wrote. “My street is named Artesian Drive, as there are artesian wells in the area. In the middle of a dry summer it is not unusual to see wet areas in the middle of the street. I know someone had to name it, but they named it appropriately.
“And Hurley Park in Montgomery Village is named for my Dad, who later became an executive with Kettler Brothers,” Bill wrote.lives in Ellicott City now, but she used to live in Springfield’s Newington Forest development. One of the streets there is Wold Den Court. Wrote Joanie: “I asked someone what that meant and was told the name was supposed to be WOLF Den Court, but someone made a typo and it wasn’t caught.”live in Heritage Hunt, an active adult community in Gainesville, Va. Many of the streets there are named after horses.
“Ours was supposed to be named after the 1998 Kentucky Derby Winner: Real Quiet,” the Levetons wrote. “However, due to a typo either from the builder or the county, the name was registered as Real Quite Court. That was quite a mistake! Interestingly, it intersects Sunday Silence Court, so if they used the intended name, it would have paid homage to anti-noise pollution horses.”
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