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NANCY Glad you enjoyed the story of the street names, it's true. We lived in that neighborhood while the houses were being built, and my FIL was acquainted with the builder there.
There's a street in Poughkeepsie called Hooker Avenue, too. At one time some new people moved into town, and tried to start a big campaign with the local newspaper to change the name because it was "evil". Finally somebody pointed out that the street was named for a Civil War General Hooker, who I think had fought at Gettysburgh??? A fairly famous man around here at one time. The street is still named Hooker Avenue.