The school has renamed at least one street and has given several others official names for the first time recently, part of the national “rural addressing” movement made necessary by states’ enhanced 9-1-1 emergency dispatching. (The school’s E-911 page was updated July 2004.) People across the country are getting the chance to give their driveways official names now that every building must have a unique street address; Madison, N.H., for example, lets residents of every street with three buildings on it propose a new name. A few examples from the latest school map (2.2mb pdf):
New Name | Previous | Location |
Cemetery Lane* | Sanborn Lane | To the Cemetery, leaving North Main between Collis and Robinson |
Fayerweather Hill Road | On the Terrace, leaving College Street south of Steele | |
Observatory Road | Into College Park, leaving East Wheelock opposite Crosby Street | |
Ivy Lane | From Observatory Road to North Park Street | |
Vox Lane | Off Crosby Street south of Topliff | |
Boathouse Road | To the Boathouse, leaving Tuck Drive | |
Tuck Mall | To the River Cluster, leaving Thayer Drive and Tuck Mall | |
Dewey Field Road | On former Dewey Farm, leaving Maynard and joining College Street opposite North Park Street | |
*This street was known historically as Cemetery Lane. The name change presumably gives precedence to Sanborn Road, off Lebanon Street. |