Cottage Street

Cottage Street runs north from near Manning Road to the corner of Eliot Street and Bolton Road in the Nutting Lake section, crossing Reardon Road and Fuller Road. It is named for the summer cottages for which Nuttings Lake Park was laid out. It first appears on "Nuttings Lake Park Extension, Plan E," drawn in May 1915 by C. A. Thayer, engineer, of Providence, Rhode Island, and recorded April 14, 1916 (Plan Book 33, Plan 46), running from Lenox Street (now Fuller Road) north to Eliot Street at Bolton Road. Plan G of December 1916 (Plan Book 35, Plan 76) carried it south past School and Winter Streets to Wilson Street.

The annual meeting of 1939 voted "to accept Cottage Street as per drawing submitted," and on October 28, 1946 a special town meeting accepted its laying out with the other Nutting Lake streets and voted money for water mains on it; the town's list of accepted streets gives "Cottage St. 2-11-39 -- 10-28-46."

An article of 1951 "to gravel and tar Cottage Street, a distance of 375 feet" was referred to the selectmen, and in 1952 the Department of Public Works reported Cottage Street "Graveled, asphalt penetration and seal applied and two catch basins installed," its first hard surface on record. It was sealed again in 1969. In the fall of 2001 the town was asked to accept "Cottage St Fuller Rd to Dead End," 745 feet, as a public way, but that article was dismissed. Cottage Street was repaved in fiscal 2003. It is not one of the roads of the 1831 map accepted in 2016.

References

1. Billerica annual report 1939: town votes to accept Cottage Street as per drawing submitted
2. Billerica annual report 1946: special town meeting of Oct. 28 accepts the laying out of Cottage Street and other Nutting Lake streets
3. Billerica annual report 1956: streets accepted by the town, Cottage St. 2-11-39 and 10-28-46
4. Billerica annual report 1951: article to gravel and tar Cottage Street referred to the Board of Selectmen
5. Billerica annual report 1952: Cottage Street graveled, asphalt penetration and seal applied, two catch basins installed
6. Billerica annual report 2002: fall 2001 warrant lists Cottage St from Fuller Rd to dead end for acceptance as a public way
7. Billerica annual report FY2003: Cottage St. repaved under the pavement management program