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*[[Belleview Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Belleview Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Belleview Street]] - unknown
*[[Belleview Street]] - unknown
*[[Belmont Avenue]] - named for the adjacent plantation big house of the Belle Mont Estate, [[Belmont House]] (or Belmont Mansion). It is a common place name meaning "beautiful mountain."
*[[Belmont Avenue]] - from the 551-acre estate sold in [[1847]] at auction to [[Slaughter Ficklin]] who renamed it Belmont from the original Belle-mont. (From an English surname of Norman origin, a variant of the surname BEAUMONT, which was derived from place names meaning "lovely hill" in Old French (from beu, bel "fair, lovely" and mont "hill")).
*[[Belmont Cottage Lane]] - named for the Belmont-Carlton neighborhood, itself named for the plantation big house on the Belle Mont Estate, [[Belmont House]] (or Belmont Mansion), much of which is part of the former Belle Mont Estate, though the property this street is was not part of the estate. It is a common place name meaning "beautiful mountain."
*[[Belmont Cottage Lane]] - named for the [[Belmont-Carlton neighborhood]], itself named for the plantation big house on the Belle Mont Estate, [[Belmont House]] (or Belmont Mansion), much of which is part of the former [[Belle Mont Estate]], though the property this street is was not part of the estate. It is a common place name meaning "beautiful mountain."
*Belmont Park - named for adjacent [[Belmont Park]], which itself named for the plantation big house on the Belle Mont Estate, [[Belmont House]] (or Belmont Mansion). It is a common place name meaning "beautiful mountain."
*Belmont Park - named for adjacent [[Belmont Park]], which itself named for the plantation big house on the Belle Mont Estate, [[Belmont House]] (or Belmont Mansion). It is a common place name meaning "beautiful mountain."
*[[Bennett Street]] - unknown
*[[Bennett Street]] - unknown
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*[[Birdwood Road]] - unknown
*[[Birdwood Road]] - unknown
*[[Bland Circle]] - unknown
*[[Bland Circle]] - unknown
*[[Blenheim Avenue]] -  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenheim_Palace Blenheim Palace] in England, of many English place names used by the developer of Belmont, Bartlett Bolling
*[[Blenheim Avenue]] -  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenheim_Palace Blenheim Palace] in England, of many English place names used by the developer of Belmont, [[Bartlett Bolling]]
*[[Blincoe Land|Blincoe Lane]] - unknown
*[[Blincoe Land|Blincoe Lane]] - unknown
*[[Blue Ridge Road]] - unknown
*[[Blue Ridge Road]] - The Blue Ridge Mountains
*[[Bolling Avenue]] – Bartlett Bolling (CSA), a member of the Bolling family, a First Family of Virginia and prominent family in early U.S. history and related by marriage to the second son of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (May 31, 1837 – October 15, 1891), also known as W.H.F. Lee. On November 28, 1867, W.H.F. Lee married Mary Tabb Bolling.
*[[Bolling Avenue]] – Bartlett Bolling (CSA), a member of the Bolling family, a First Family of Virginia and prominent family in early U.S. history and related by marriage to the second son of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (May 31, 1837 – October 15, 1891), also known as W.H.F. Lee. On November 28, 1867, W.H.F. Lee married Mary Tabb Bolling.
*[[Bollingwood Road]] - unknown
*[[Bollingwood Road]] - unknown
*[[Booker Street]] - unknown
*[[Booker Street]] - possibly [[Booker T. Washington Park]] or [[Rev. George E. Booker, D.D.]], changed from ''Brook Street'' sometime after 1916.
*[[Brandon Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Brandon Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Brandywine Court]] - unknown
*[[Brandywine Court]] - unknown

Revision as of 00:42, 14 August 2020


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The following is a list of streets and their namesakes.

(A) Ackley Lane thru Azalea Drive

(B) Bailey Road thru Burnley Avenue

(C) Cabell Avenue thru Cynthianna Avenue

(D-G) Dairy Road to Grover Court

(H-L) Hammond Street thru Lyons Court

(M-O) Madison Avenue thru Oxford Road

(P-T) Page Street thru Twyman Road

(U-Z) University Avenue thru Zan Road

Street name changes

Extinct streets

  • Loudoun Road (ca. 1964) - (undeveloped street between Lewis Mountain and Thomson roads)[7]

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