tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post5766796425789125241..comments2024-03-28T10:27:45.855-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Just When You Think You Know the Answer . . .Carole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-55310163645619171932012-12-14T18:01:15.379-05:002012-12-14T18:01:15.379-05:00Thanks, Ray! I'll certainly accept Anna Bradbu...Thanks, Ray! I'll certainly accept Anna Bradbury as the definitive word on this issue, but it's curious that Frank Langlois, writing his letter in 1913, only five years after Mrs. Bradbury's book was published (1908), has a different explanation. We are a city of contrarians! Carole Osterinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-26947210725072851342012-12-14T10:23:35.799-05:002012-12-14T10:23:35.799-05:00According to Anna Bradbury it was renamed on honor...According to Anna Bradbury it was renamed on honor of our own William Howard Allen: "The fine marble monument which marks the grave of<br />Lieut. Allen was erected to his memory by the citizens of<br />his native place in 1833, and on the extension of Federal<br />street to Fifth, two years later, it was with one accord<br />renamed Allen street in honor of Lieut. Howard Allen." (page 109 of her history).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12223329430634380551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-37814426786231693022012-12-13T21:49:03.229-05:002012-12-13T21:49:03.229-05:00Great monument and family plot!Great monument and family plot!Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548912912359709568noreply@blogger.com