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Street sign names offer friendly, A-L-L W-E-L-C-O-M-E and C-O-M-E B-A-C-K spelled out by Lions Club project People travel up and down Fredericksburg’s streets day in and day out without ever giving any thought as to how they were named. When the town’s planners picked names for the streets on the main thoroughfare, they encoded into the names of consecutive streets a ‘welcome’ and a ‘goodbye’. Most of the city byways have large signs showing the name of the street and an illustration of the Vereins Kirche, a symbol of Fredericksburg that stands in the center of the city on Marktplatz. The Vereins Kirche through the years has become a commonly-recognized landmark of Fredericksburg and placing a sketch of the venerable structure on the street signs was a part of the city’s “dressing up” for the
125th anniversary of the founding of Fredericksburg in 1971. Among the more German names of streets is Ufer, which runs parallel to Main Street and three blocks south. Ufer, in English, means stream bank, and undoubtedly was so named because it runs along the southern bank of Baron’s Creek, the main stream that flows through the city. Originally, the street that runs along the north side of the creek was probably called Bach Strasse, but was translated to Creek Street when all of the city’s streets were first officially named and marked after the city was incorporated in 1933. It was several years later that the Fredericksburg Lions Club took on the project of giving all the streets names and purchased and installed
street signs. It was then that it was decided to name the streets running north and south across Main to spell out words. Starting at Courthouse Square, all of the streets crossing Main to the east were named so that their first letters would spell out “All Welcome”. These streets are Adams, Llano, Lincoln, Washington, Elk, Lee, Columbus, Olive, Mesquite and Eagle. Traveling west from the Courthouse Square, the streets spell out “Come Back”. These street names are Crockett, Orange, Milam, Edison, Bowie, Acorn, Cherry and Kay. Many of the streets found throughout the city are named in honor of trees -- Mesquite, Cherry, Cottonwood, Hackberry, Liveoak, Mulberry,
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