Pinehurst Avenue

Location	Map
Neighborhood	Pinehurst Manor Kindred Place
Laid Out	1899
Right of Way	40 - 44 ft
Pavement	24 - 28 ft

Pinehurst Avenue runs east from Boston Road through Pinehurst Manor toward the Burlington line, and it takes its name from the neighborhood, which in turn took its name from Pinehurst Park. The park was a trolley park, a pleasure ground with a dance pavilion built about 1900 at the corner of Boston Road and Cook Street on the street railway from Lowell to Boston, and by 1903 the town reports were speaking of "Pinehurst Park" and of road work "near Pinehurst." House lot developments soon borrowed the name: Pinehurst Annex, the plan of E. E. Varnum's land along the Shawsheen surveyed in September 1902, and Pinehurst Manor in 1910.

The avenue itself was laid out on the plan of Pinehurst Manor, "Owned By Frank W. Coughlin," drawn by H. A. Millhouse, civil engineer, and dated at Boston in September 1910 (Plan Book 27, Plan 95). It runs from Boston Road across Allandale, Ellingwood, Glenside, Glenvale, Montrose and Endleigh Avenues to land of Parker, with Bancroft and Dillworth Streets branching off its eastern end. The street directory of 1916 lists it as running "from Boston rd northerly n Burlington line." No record of the street earlier than this plan has been found.

The town accepted Pinehurst Avenue in pieces. At the annual meeting of February 1924, on an article for the stretch "from Boston Road to Glenside Avenue, a distance of approximately 1000 feet," the town "voted that the Town accept as a Town Way, Pinehurst Avenue from Boston Road to Glenvale Avenue"; the town's later list of accepted streets records the acceptance as Boston Road to Glenside Avenue, about 1,000 feet. Further extensions were refused in 1928, by a vote of 24 to 33, and again in 1931 and 1933, and only in November 1951 did the town accept "the easterly end of Pinehurst Avenue a distance of 483 feet from 75 feet beyond Glenvale Avenue to 84 feet beyond Endleigh Avenue." The part beyond, called Pinehurst Avenue Extension, ran from Bicknell Road northeasterly to the Burlington line; in the duplicate street name program of 1988 the selectmen renamed it Pheasant Road, effective Jan. 2, 1989.

The first surface treatment recorded was in 1928, when the highway surveyor treated Pinehurst Avenue with No. 45 road oil from the "State Road to Eggo's residence"; Boston Road, the state highway, was the "State Road." The town voted in 1931 to "tar and oil" Pinehurst Avenue, and it was tarred and patched through the 1930s and 1940s. In 1944 the low point of the road was raised a foot and a catch basin and 500 feet of drain pipe were laid to the state drain in Boston Road, the whole surface was given an asphalt seal in 1945 and 1948, and in 1950 it was rebuilt by the mix-in-place method for its entire length. The same meeting of 1924 voted a water main on Pinehurst and Glenside Avenues, which was extended to Glenvale Avenue in 1926 and east of Glenvale with W.P.A. labor in 1937. Pinehurst Avenue is not among the roads of the 1831 town map accepted by the town in 2016.

Pinehurst Avenue

Pinehurst Avenue

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