Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Origin of "South Angell Street"

Lovecraft grew up on Angell Street, and most likely knew every nook and cranny of it. And its history.

Here in a 1909-1911 series of books we read:



Cold Spring Street
This street named for a spring south of it - now extinct - is now known as South Angell street.
Angell street was extended eastward from its junction with South Angell street less than fifty years ago.
{i.e. circa 1860's, a few decades before Whipple Phillips purchased his Angell Street land - thus he bought into the "old" tract of land. Another reason Lovecraft worshipped it.}

From:
Rhode Island Education Circulars
HISTORICAL SERIES
Volume V
POINTS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST OF RHODE ISLAND
Department of Education, 1911
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An alternatiove rendering of this is found in:
Rhode Island Education Circulars Historical Series
Volume IV
The Influence of Physical Features upon the History of Rhode Island
1910

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