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Community Street Names

Street names in Lincoln Village One are derived, mostly, from the American Civil War Period, 1861-1865. Streets running in an east-west direction are named after significant leaders of the time, while streets running north-south are generally named after places. Here is a short explanation of each streets name with links to more detail. Enjoy!

Lincoln Road: Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

Named for the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, this is the northern-most boundary road of Lincoln Village One. Lincoln Road has not always connected with Alexandria Place, dead ending at a ranch on what is now Lincoln High School. Lincoln, known for the Emancipation Proclamation which endedslavery in the United States and for the Gettysburg Address, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1965.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Greeley Way: Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872)

Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America’s most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and “established Greeley’s reputation as the greatest editor of his day.” He actively spoke out Against slavery and was involved in the Reconstruction of the South.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley

Stanton Way: Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869)

Stanton was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. Many Lincoln Unified Educators might recall an informal changing of the street’s name to St. Anton in recognition of the long-time contribution of the district’s superintendent Dr. Tod Anton.

For more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_M._Stanton

Cameron Way: Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799 – June 26, 1889)

Cameron was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cameron

Seward Way: Frederick William Seward (July 8, 1830 – April 25, 1915)

Seward was the Assistant Secretary of State during the American Civil War, serving in Abraham Lincoln’s administration as well as under Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction and for over two years under Rutherford B. Hayes.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Seward

McClellan Way: George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885

McClellan was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union.

For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan

Benjamin Holt Drive: Benjamin Holt (January 1 1849, Concord, New Hampshire – December 5 1920, Stockton, California)

Holt was an American inventor who developed David Roberts’ design for one of the first practical continuous tracks for use in tractors. Holt formed The Holt Manufacturing Company in the early 20th century. Continuous tracked tractors were credited as providing some inspiration for the invention of the tank. Later, after Benjamin Holt’s death in 1920, the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California, merged with C.L. Best Tractor Co. of San Leandro, California, to form the Caterpillar Tractor Co., which is now Caterpillar Inc. of Peoria, Illinois, USA. The Holt tractor was constructed under the Caterpillar banner as the Caterpillar 60.

For additional information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Holt

Sheridan Way: Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831– August 5, 1888)

Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East.

For additional information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Sheridan

Rutledge Way: Edward Rutledge (November 23, 1749 – January 23, 1800)

(Note: Edward Rutledge does not seem to be associated with the Civil War)  Rutledge was an politician and youngest signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina.

For additional information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Rutledge

Calhoun St: John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850)

Calhoun was the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun, a brilliant orator and writer, was a proponent of Republicanism, which he saw as implying slavery, states’ rights, limited government, and nullification.

For additi0onal information on John Calhoun visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Calhoun

Douglas Road: Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861)

Douglas,  the son of Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah Fisk, was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party’s candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was nicknamed the “Little Giant” because he was short of stature but was considered by many a “giant” in politics.

Go to Wikipedia for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_A._Douglas

Gettysburg Place:

Named for The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is  often described as the war’s turning point.

For more detail about this battle see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg

Pacific Avenue: is named for the Pacific Ocean

Vicksburg Place:

Named for The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

More information: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg

Pershing Avenue:

Named for General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing, Honorary GCB (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948).

Pershing was a general officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies (a retroactive Congressional edict passed in 1976 promoted George Washington to the same rank but with higher seniority).

More information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Pershing