The Garland Landmark Society, Inc.

 

OLD NAMES OF GARLAND STREETS*

                                                           

garland

(new) duck creek

embree

 

 

 

Third Street

Blue Street (after the J.L. Blue family)

 

Fourth Street

Forrest Street (after Confederate Gen. N.B. Forrest?)

 

Fifth Street (north of Ave. A)

Commerce Street

Fifth Street

Fifth Street (south of Ave. D)

 

Orange Street

Sixth Street

Main Street

Fourth Street

Seventh Street

Nash Street (after T. F. Nash)

Third Street

Glenbrook Drive (Eighth St.)

Wyatt Street (after R. C. Wyatt)

Second Street

Ninth Street

 

First Street

Tenth Street (N of Ave. D)

 

Keller Street (after W.J. Keller)

Tenth Street (S of Ave. D)

 

 

Austin Street

Walker Street (after Dr. T.S. Walker)

 

State Street

Harbison Street (after Dr. Hugh Harbison)

 

Main Street

North Street;  Neam St. on plat of Duck Creek 1887)

No name shown on plat of Embree 1886

Avenue A

 

Hill Street (after Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill?)

Avenue B

 

Thorp Street (after H. Nollie Thorp)

Avenue C

 

Hunter Street (after Wm. L. Hunter)

Avenue D

 

Mewshaw Street (after J. T. Mewshaw)

Avenue E

 

Park Street

Avenue F

 

Alexander Street (after W. M. Alexander)

Avenue G

 

South Street

Jupiter Rd. to Forest Lane to Garland Ave. to Walnut St. to First St. to Pleasant Valley Rd.

 

Dallas-Greenville Road , Northeast Pike (designated an interstate route ca. 1914, the designated segment through Garland transferred to North [now Main] St. in 1919)

Other Street Name Changes

current name

previous name

 

 

First Street, S of Main Street

Rose Hill Road, GN 1906; Beltline Road, GN 1919

Ninth Street

College St., GN 1912

Tenth Street, S of Ave. D

White Street (SIM 1915. After J. F. White)

Eleventh Street

Garland Avenue (SIM 1919)

Twelfth Street, N of Ave. B

James Avenue (SIM 1927. After J.M. James)

Twelfth Street, S of Ave D

Crossman Street (SIM 1915.  After G. W. Crossman)

Avenue A, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets

Olinger Avenue (SIM 1927. After Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Olinger)

Avenue B, W of Garland Ave.

Cole Avenue (SIM 1919. After E.G. Cole)

Barnes Bridge Road

Central National Road of the Republic of Texas, 1844

Broadway Blvd

Rose Hill Road (between Centerville Road and Rose Hill Road); New Hope Road (between Rowlett Road and city limit)

Centerville Road

Dallas-Rockwall Road

Commerce Street

US Hwy 67, 1926

Flook Street (After L. M. T. Flook)

Crotty Street (SIM 1919. After J. W. Crotty, promoter of the Eastern Texas Traction Co. [interurban railroad]); South Thirteenth Street (SIM 1927)

Forest Lane

Dallas-Greenville Rd.; Northeast Pike, GN 1906; Flook Avenue (SIM 1919. After L. M.T. Flook); Beltline Road

Garland Avenue

Newman Avenue (SIM 1919. After Dr. G. W. Newman); Fourteenth Street (SIM 1947); Bankhead Hwy (GN 1921); US Hwy 67, 1926; North Star Road (N of Main St.)

Glenbrook Dr.

Amundsen Road (N of Walnut. Aft. explorer-aviator Roald Amundsen); Eighth St. (between Walnut and Ave. F)

Main Street

Bankhead Hwy, GN 1921; St. Hwy 1; US Hwy 67, 1926; Garland Avenue

Marion Drive

Factory Road (N of Resistol Drive)

Rose Hill Road

Beltline Road, 1919

Rowlett Road (W of Rose Hill Road)

New Hope Road; Beltline Road, 1919

State Street, between Twelfth St. & North Star Rd.

Malcolm Street (SIM 1927.  After Malcolm Watson)

Garland street names were changed in 1927/28 to a system of alphabetic names running east-west and numerical names running north-south.

*Compiled by J.M. Flook from plats of Embree and (New) Duck Creek, Sanborn insurance maps (SIM), and the Garland News (GN).