This may have been answered prior, Pigtown evolved from pigs being run thru the streets to the slaughterhouse. Goose hill Patterson Park area same explaination. This comes from my Mother who is 93. Jan ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [BALTGEN-L] Putty Hill Avenue Date: 3/7/2006 9:19:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time From: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Sent on: Thanks Phil, that sounds like something someone else mentioned - "clay hill". Place and road names fascinate me and make me very curious about their origin, ie, Pig Town. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Stackhouse" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [BALTGEN-L] Putty Hill Avenue > A Google search turned up the following on an old version of the > Baltimore County Public Library web page for Perry Hall: > > "Perry Hall includes about 13 square miles of land. The community's > western edge is Putty Hill, named for the sloping ground that meets > White Marsh Run." > > Phil > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > The Baltimore County Genealogical Society web site: > http://www.serve.com/bcgs/bcgs.html > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== USGenWeb/MDGenWeb page for Anne Arundel Co. - 350 Years of Settlement 1649-1999 http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdannear
Flanagan Lane off Falls Road in Mt Wshington was named for the number of Flanagans living and playing in the Lane. The Flanagan Lane name was dropped in maps after 1940. Bud Flanagan, in Arizona
Thanks Jan, this is what I have always understood - I only mentioned it because I thought it was a pretty well known fact. I guess not. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [BALTGEN-L] Putty Hill Avenue > This may have been answered prior, Pigtown evolved from pigs being run > thru the streets to the slaughterhouse. Goose hill Patterson Park area same > explaination. This comes from my Mother who is 93. Jan > > ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [BALTGEN-L] Putty Hill Avenue > Date: 3/7/2006 9:19:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time From: > [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) To: [email protected]_ > (mailto:[email protected]) Sent on: > Thanks Phil, that sounds like something someone else mentioned - "clay > hill". Place and road names fascinate me and make me very curious about > their origin, ie, Pig Town. > > Betty > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Stackhouse" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:13 PM > Subject: Re: [BALTGEN-L] Putty Hill Avenue > > > > A Google search turned up the following on an old version of the > > Baltimore County Public Library web page for Perry Hall: > > > > "Perry Hall includes about 13 square miles of land. The community's > > western edge is Putty Hill, named for the sloping ground that meets > > White Marsh Run." > > > > Phil > > > > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > > The Baltimore County Genealogical Society web site: > > http://www.serve.com/bcgs/bcgs.html > > > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > USGenWeb/MDGenWeb page for Anne Arundel Co. - 350 Years of Settlement > 1649-1999 > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdannear > > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > The Baltgen-L list focuses on GENEALOGY research for > Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Harford, and Howard Cos. MD >