New street names

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.

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