Marilyn Road

Marilyn Road is a short street in the Riverview Park area of East Billerica, running about 500 feet from Coolidge Street southeast to George Brown Street, across Coolidge Street from the end of Concannon Street.

It was laid out on "Unit No. 2," drawn by Brown for the Shotzes in August 1947 and recorded on August 28, 1947 (Plan Book 71, Plan 40), the second section of Shawsheen River Pines, which replatted part of the old Riverview Park lots of 1912. The plan shows Marilyn Road, 40 feet wide, from Salem Road, now George Brown Street, to Coolidge Street, with house lots of 7,500 square feet on both sides. Like Donald, Jordan and Freddy Roads on the same plans, it bears a given name; the plans do not say whose, and the origin of the name was not found. In 1962 the town rezoned land of Jeanne Shotz on Whipple Road and Brown Street from industrial to village residence, describing it as running along Brown Street "to a point where the southwesterly side of Marilyn Road intersects said Brown Street."

The assessors date the oldest house to about 1956 and the others to 1962 to 1966. Marilyn Road was offered for acceptance at the annual town meeting of 1971 with Donald and Jordan Roads, but it was not accepted. It was graded in 1974. On May 13, 1976 the annual town meeting accepted "MARILYN ROAD in accordance with the plan on file with the Town Clerk a way 40' wide and 445' more or less long," after an amendment to raise $1,750 for it was lost. When it appeared again on the street list of 1978, the meeting voted to take no action. It was hot topped in 1978.

References

1. Annual Report 1962: Art. 50 rezoning of Jeanne Shotz land on Whipple Road and Brown Street, bounded by Marilyn Road
2. Annual Report 1971: warrant Art. 90, accept streets including Marilyn Road
3. Annual Report 1971: Art. 90 vote, streets accepted (Marilyn Road not among them)
4. Annual Report 1974: Highway Department, streets graded, including Marilyn Road
5. Annual Report 1976: May 13, 1976, Marilyn Road accepted, 40 by 445 feet
6. Annual Report 1978: April 27, 1978, no action on Marilyn Road
7. Annual Report 1978: Highway Department, streets hot topped, including Marilyn Road