Named for pioneering newspaperman William Buckingham. 9 Pitt Street: The statesman and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger gave his name to the street. Donelson Pike. Buckingham Road. Buchanan Street: Named for President James Buchanan: Buckingham Road: Buelow Court: Buena Vista Avenue E-W (HP) May be named for an American victory at Buena Vista, Mexico in 1847. Buchanan Street, named after Andrew Buchanan, was given the name George Floyd Street after the man George Floyd, who died after a white police officer knelt … Donelson Pike is named after Colonel John Donelson, a land speculator who, along with James Robertson, was called to settle the Cumberland River region of Middle Tennessee. He started with William Buchanan, a master mechanic and New York Central Railroad’s chief superintendent of motive power and rolling stock at that time. 6 Oswald Street: After James Oswald of Shieldhall, a Glasgow MP in the 1800s. Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Dr Baker felt inspired after … Buffalo Avenue (Ham) Hamtramck. Donelson and his traveling party of 30 other families embarked from Virginia in December 1779 before reaching his destination, Big Salt Lick (now Nashville), in 1780. “Streets named after Partridge, Farlinger families” by Vince Leah, Winnipeg Free Press Weekly, 3 September 1989, page 14. Highland Park. But one of the most well known streets in the city is named after Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier, who served as Lord Provost and owned plantations in Virginia. 40. I was astonished to learn that Buchanan Street is actually not named for James Buchanan,” Schlimmer said. Buchanan Street was named after Andrew Buchanan, a Tobacco Lord, who envisioned that Glasgow would spread westward. “Realtor Jesse Leonard wanted to name the cluster after brilliant engineers. Renamed Rutherford Street in 1959. Such changes have been made in places like Spain who renamed streets previously named after figures from Franco’s fascist regime. 19. Or maybe just because of a nice view. With this in mind, on the 15th of February, 1763, he acquired the first portion of “five acres or thereby of ground in the Burgh of Glasgow, in the part called Palezeon’s Croft, on the North side of Argyle Street, with plots or steadings for building on each side thereof “. Buchanan Street. Glasgow's most well known street, Buchanan Street, is named after former Lord Provost and tobacco merchant Andrew Buchanan (Image: Media Scotland). Like many of the streets in the centre of Glasgow, Buchanan Street was named after a famous merchant who had made his fortune thanks to Glasgow’s reputation as the Second City of the Empire. 7 Cochrane Street: Previously Cotton Street, it was renamed for Andrew Cochrane, Lord Provost in 1760. ... personal communication, 20 June 2014. 8 Buchanan Street: Named after Glasgow merchant Andrew Buchanan. Other passages owe their names to merchants including Archibald Ingram, Alexander Oswald, Andrew Cochrane and John Glassford. Glasgow’s main shopping thoroughfare, Buchanan Street, is named after tobacco trader Andrew Buchanan. Currently there are many streets in Glasgow which are named after slave owners, such as Glassford Street (John Glassford), Ingram Street (Archibald Ingram) and Buchanan street (Andrew Buchanan) glorifying the slave owners of the past.