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*[[Johnson Avenue]] - unknown
 
*[[Johnson Avenue]] - unknown
 
*[[Langley Avenue]] - Samuel Pierpont Langley, aeronautics and aircraft engineer.
 
*[[Langley Avenue]] - Samuel Pierpont Langley, aeronautics and aircraft engineer.
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*[[Lynn Ora Drive]] - Lynn Ora Overman, wife of Charles Overman, mayor from 1961-'63.
 
*[[Michigan Avenue]] - U.S. state of [[Wikipedia:Michigan|Michigan]]. The road was originally laid out as part of a subdivision whose streets all have geographic placenames.
 
*[[Michigan Avenue]] - U.S. state of [[Wikipedia:Michigan|Michigan]]. The road was originally laid out as part of a subdivision whose streets all have geographic placenames.
 
*[[Mobile Highway]] - City of [[Mobile]], Alabama
 
*[[Mobile Highway]] - City of [[Mobile]], Alabama
 
*[[Navy Boulevard]] - U.S. Navy, [[Naval Air Station Pensacola]]
 
*[[Navy Boulevard]] - U.S. Navy, [[Naval Air Station Pensacola]]
 
*[[Nine Mile Road]] - The road's distance from [[Garden Street]]
 
*[[Nine Mile Road]] - The road's distance from [[Garden Street]]
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*[[Nobles Street]] - Nobles family, major landowners in Eastgate area.
 
*[[Pace Boulevard]] - [[Pace family]] or a specific Pace
 
*[[Pace Boulevard]] - [[Pace family]] or a specific Pace
 
*[[Texar Drive]] - [[Bayou Texar]]
 
*[[Texar Drive]] - [[Bayou Texar]]

Revision as of 05:23, 13 April 2020

The following is a list of streets and their namesakes.

City grid

East-west streets

Ordered from the Bay north.

North-south streets

Ordered from the Bay west.

Non-grid

In alphabetical order.