I just thought it was interesting...

[boho_girl]

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@etselec

Yes indeed–the college predates most of the town, and the story I’ve heard is that Swarthmore civil engineering students planned out much of the town’s layout. Incidentally, there are no streets in the town of Swarthmore: we have avenues, roads, circles, places, terraces, lanes and just about anything else, but no streets.

Oh, wow, that’s really cool! I guess they ran out of idea when they started naming them after numbers then (10th Ave, 9th Ave…) I wonder how they picked the colleges that will get the names; students’ second favorite colleges? The ones that rejected them? haha</p>

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@interesteddad

It’s actually not that unusual to see college towns name their streets after colleges and universities.

I didn’t know that. We don’t have actual college towns in my country.</p>