Ossippee Road
Ossippee Road is a short street in the northern part of Riverhurst, the riverside colony west of Concord Road in South Billerica. It first appears, spelled "Ossipee Road," on the "Plan of Riverhurst, Billerica, Mass.," drawn in January 1921 by Whitman and Howard, civil engineers of Boston, for Fred B., A. Mabel and Claude B. Bartlett of Bedford (Plan Book 38, Plan 85). On the plan it leaves Riverhurst Road where that road bends south and runs west toward the river along the northern lots, below the Judkins land.
The name is that of Ossipee, the lake, mountains and town in New Hampshire, a native name of the region and a popular one for summer places. The plan does not explain it, but it matches Ossamequin Road, the native name carried into Riverhurst from the Ranlett Grove plan of 1909 on the south. Deeds keep the plan's spelling "Ossipee," while the town has written it "Ossippee" in its own records, as in the "Ossippee Road Pump Station."
The street has remained a private way. The town sewer pump station on it serves the Riverhurst area; at the annual spring town meeting of 2011 the town voted unanimously, under Article 31, to acquire the legal interests in and "confirm the use of" six existing sewer pump stations, among them the "Ossippee Road Pump Station." No vote accepting the road itself has been found, and it is not among the roads of the 1831 town map accepted by town meeting in October 2016.