The "Got A Name For The Street On Which You Live?" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Just getting home to my house which sits on a street known as Foxshire Drive in the county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  So, why is it called Foxshire Drive?  I suppose it is called that since the development in which I live is known as Foxshire, since at one time there were many red foxes that lived in the surrounding farms near the development.  Actually saw a few when we first moved to the house in the early 1990's.  Before that we lived on Janet Avenue which allegedly was named after one of the daughters of Mr. McGran who lived on the big farm that eventually became the development known as Grandview Heights.  

Other streets closeby were Martha and Juliette.  Guess you have an idea why they were called that?  So, how did the street or lane where you live get its name?  I assume that just about every small town in the United States, or perhaps any location in the world, has a Main Street.  If not, maybe it would have a First Street.  And, if it has a first street it more than likely has a Second Street and even a Third Street.  I often wish I could have lived on Woods Ave. since it would have been so easy to remember where I lived, since it is my last name.  Can you figure out why there are streets with names such as Market, Hill, East and State?  Lancaster City's Central Market sits on...yep, you guessed it; Market Alley.  One of my grandmother's lived on Pine Street in Lancaster since there were many pine trees on the street at one time.  And, my other Grandmother lived on Prince Street since a Prince was supposed to have lived there at one time.  Nah!  I just made that up, but it really could be true.  At one time, roads that sat outside of town had no names at all.  If the town was small enough you could just tell someone asking for directions to turn left at the first maple tree and go three houses.  Then people moved to the other side of the street and it became a bit easier if the street had a name so it was named Friendship Ave.  Hey, I could go on and on about why streets and roads were called what they are today.  

I would love to give names to all these streets.

At one time "street" was a description of what was located on a main pathway while alleys were named for the designated landowner who held the land surrounding the alley.  But in large cities, streets began to have numbers instead of names.  Then people got the idea that you needed to romanticize streets and alleys so they began to call then Sweet Street, Lover's Lane, Berry Farm Lane, etc., etc.  Then it became popular to give streets a name with flair to it such as Frying Pan Alley or Roast Meat Hill Road.   Around 1950, right after WWII ended more surbuban areas began to appear in rural neighborhoods and new names were needed.  Perhaps you live in suburbia and your streets in the neighborhood have unusual names.  Wouldn't you like to be able to name the street on which you live?  I would!  I would live on...Long John Lane...or maybe Sunny Pleasure Road...or perhaps Feline Fairway...or even Bosomy Boulevard.  Boy would I love to be the person who named streets, alleys, roads, etc.  Maybe there should be contests to name roads in new developments...or maybe there are already contests that I just don't know about.  Gotta go now, and Google "Road naming."  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.