If you drive through an area with lots of streets with just first names, that may be why! Harnessing the suggestive power of words helps shape a neighborhood even before the first home has been built. What do you picture when you hear someone lives on Whispering Pines Drive? Or what about Bearcamp Road? An entire neighborhood in Nevada has streets named for Pokémon characters! Roadways might change names in their history. Cities can honor someone by renaming a street after them. Some places choose modern heroes to replace a figure who may be a painful reminder of the past.
