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Perhaps inspired by New York City, Wilmington residents helped change a street to an avenue
In fact, Fifth Avenue was called Fifth ... brick structure that dates to 1890. This article originally appeared on Wilmington StarNews: Perhaps inspired by New York City, Wilmington residents ...
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By the end of the 1890's the number of millionaires in ... and palazzos of Europe, along New York's Fifth Avenue was undertaken with great zeal. One observer of New York society surmised that ...
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Perhaps inspired by New York City, Wilmington residents helped change a street to an avenue
How did this historic downtown Wilmington road, which shares its name with a famous area in New York City, get its name? In fact, Fifth Avenue was called Fifth Street until January 1915.