Naming Maquoketa Streets

GOODENOW, SPAULDING, LIVERMORE

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 3/7/2008 at 08:02:53

Jackson Sentinel Centennial Edition-1938.

Naming Streets Was Task For Platters

When the town of Maquoketa was platted in 1850, one of the tasks of the three proprietors, J. E. Goodenow, Alonzo Spaulding and Zalmon Livermore, was to give a name to each of the streets. OLIVE LIVERMORE, wife of one of the proprietors, was honored by having the first street east of Main Street named for her. The second street east of Main Street was named ELIZA, for Mrs. GOODENOW.
OTTO Street, the third street east of Main Street, bears the name of a friend of the proprietors, Dr. OTTO VON SCHRADER, as it ran through his property. Mrs. Helen Tinker, daughter of J. E. Goodenow, recalls that when the streets were laid out it was planned that Otto Street south of Maple Street would be a private alley as it ran through Dr. von Schrader's orchard, and that is the reason that the street is so narrow. MATTESON Avenue was named by Mrs. Tinker's father for some friend whom he greatly admired.