The High Road and Mass. Ave.

[Dave Wilton]

I did a write-up of "Main Street" and "High Street" a couple of years ago.

http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/main_street_high_street_h
ighway/


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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Margaret Lee
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:33 AM
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Subject: Re: The High Road and Mass. Ave.

In Hampton, VA, (the oldest continuous English-speaking settlement in
America) there still exist a King Street and a Queen Street, major cross
streets in downtown. There is no Main Street.

--Margaret Lee


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 From: Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET>
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Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: The High Road and Mass. Ave.

At 1/14/2013 11:45 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Jan 14, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>...
> >  But at least for Massachusetts
> > Avenue, it had a higher name even than "the High Street": it was
> >called "the King's Highway"* -- until the Revolution.  In Boston,
> >King St. and Queen St. lost their titles at about the same time.
> >
> > * Sometimes "the Great Road".
>
>Or "the Great Highway", as the one that skirts the ocean in S.F.?

I don't think David Fischer, in "Paul Revere's Ride", calls it "the Great
Highway", and I take him as authoritative.

Joel


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