Rivermere on the Concord

Rivermere on the Concord is a neighborhood on both sides of Bridle Road north of the Centre, reaching east to the Concord River. Its plan, "Rivermere on the Concord at North Billerica, Mass., belonging to Charles Bruce, 1911," was drawn by O. M. Snell, civil engineer, of Lowell, and recorded on December 5, 1913 (Plan Book 31, Plan 16); the Edward T. Harrington Company of 293 Washington Street, Boston, were the exclusive agents. Land of Farmer, Rogers and Hamstead bounded the tract.

West of Bridle Road the plan laid out Woodlawn Avenue along the south side, crossed by Foster Avenue, with Elmwood Avenue, Park Avenue, Rivermere Avenue, Magnolia Avenue and Fairview Avenue to the north and a small square called the Park. East of Bridle Road, Hillside Avenue, Hancock Street, Central Avenue, a fourth street and Atherton Avenue ran down to Water Street on the riverbank. The lots were mostly 2,700 square feet.

Cottages came slowly. The directory of 1919 lists Woodlawn Avenue, and in 1926 and 1927 town meeting was asked to extend the street lights on Bridle Road as far as Woodlawn Avenue. The town accepted Woodlawn Avenue in 1978. Today's streets on the plan's lines include Woodlawn, New Foster Avenue, Parkway Avenue, Magnolia Avenue, Rivermere Avenue, Olde Hillside Avenue, Hancock Street, Atherton Avenue and Bernard Street, which lies on the plan's fourth street east of Bridle Road.