(erielack) Erie Street

["MONTGOMERY| ED" <emontgom_@_LAN.TJHSST.EDU>]

The word "Erie" is used throughout the midwest not necessarily 
because of the affection for the railroad.  However, many towns 
were so glad to get a railroad, they would assist in building it.  
Often the railroad would comply with presenting them with an 
elegant station.

However, the word Erie goes back to the name of an American 
Indian tribe that lived along the southern shore of the lake.  That's 
how the lake got its name.  They were defeated by the Iroquois.

A block away from my house in Northern Virginia, just out side the 
Nation's Capital is "Erie Street".

When I grew up in Mountain View, NJ, I always wondered why the 
street next to the Erie station was "Greenwood Ave".  It took a 
while to discover that the company was originally the New York 
and Greenwood Lake.

Ed Montgomery

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