bildin's

Updated: May 8, 2025

And ag'in he hurried me on'ards by some good lookin' bildin's, and trees, and tavrens, and cottages, and etc., etc., and we come to Caroline street, and Jane, and Matilda, and lots of wimmen's names. And Josiah sez, "I'll bet the man that named them streets wuz love sick!" But he wuzn't no such thing. It was a father that owned the land, and laid out the streets, and named 'em for his daughters.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at Saratoga