Houston News : How Houston’s most iconic and often traveled streets got their names

A pirate’s life for me

Neighborhood: Jamaica Beach in Galveston

Street Names: Buccaneer, Jolly Roger, Edward Teach, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Hook, Jean Lafitte, John Davis, Henry Morgan, Mansvelt, Francis Drake, John Silver

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A pirate’s life for me

Neighborhood: Jamaica Beach in Galveston

Street Names: Buccaneer, Jolly Roger, Edward Teach, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Hook, Jean Lafitte, John Davis, Henry Morgan,

… more

Photo: Peter Mountain, Associated Press

Photo: Peter Mountain, Associated Press

A pirate’s life for me

Neighborhood: Jamaica Beach in Galveston

Street Names: Buccaneer, Jolly Roger, Edward Teach, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Hook, Jean Lafitte, John Davis, Henry Morgan, Mansvelt, Francis Drake, John Silver

less

A pirate’s life for me

Neighborhood: Jamaica Beach in Galveston

Street Names: Buccaneer, Jolly Roger, Edward Teach, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Hook, Jean Lafitte, John Davis, Henry Morgan,

… more

Photo: Peter Mountain, Associated Press

How Houston’s most iconic and often traveled streets got their names

More than 180 years and 6,000 miles of paved asphalt later, Houston’s streets have amassed an impressive history since the city was founded in 1836.

While the meaning of street names like John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard are implied, those like Scarlett and Wilkes in the Twelve Oaks neighborhood are more nuanced. Those streets, and six others around them, were drawn from “Gone With The Wind.”

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 In the Memorial Bend neighborhood, you can find street names like Isolde, Traviata and Faust, which all belong to some of the most famed operas.

Swipe through the gallery above to learn the backstory of other Houston streets.

Houston Forum

Source : chron.com

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