List of U.S. Place Names of Spanish Origin - Streets and Roads

Streets and Roads

This is not an exhaustive list.

  • El Camino Real ("The Royal Road" or "The King's Highway")
  • Santa Monica Boulevard (from Santa Mónica: "Saint Monica")
  • San Pablo Avenue ("Saint Paul Avenue")
  • Avenida de las Pulgas ("Avenue of the Fleas")
  • Camino Pablo ("Path of Paul")

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Famous quotes containing the words streets and/or roads:

    “I took a good deal o’ pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. It’s the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.”
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)