The Pines

Location	Map
Established	1912
Area	About 114 acres
Roads	Aberdeen Street Cook Street Dustin Young Lane Edgebaston Street Horton Lane Ivanhoe Street Kenilworth Street Knoll Street Lamont Street Macdougall Street Mcginness Way Moseley Street Ordway Street Pines Road Sachem Street Shamrock Road Tom Grace Way Topliff Street

The Pines is a neighborhood of small house lots in the Pinehurst section, between Cook Street and the Shawsheen River. On May 18, 1912 Frank W. Coughlin of Brookline, who had begun Pinehurst Manor two years before, bought about seventy acres of woodland on the river, bounded by the road then called the Shawsheen road, now Cook Street. In June 1912 H. A. Millhouse, civil engineer, of Boston drew "The Pines, Billerica, Mass., owned by Frank W. Coughlin," recorded on July 19, 1912 (Plan Book 30, Plan 13). Land of Beard lay to the west and of Holman and Gleason to the east.

Pines Road ran from Cook Street northwest to the river, and the cross streets were given mostly British names: Sachem Street along the riverbank, May, Rose and Sunset Streets near the western edge, Kenilworth, Mosley, Montrose, Topliff Street, Radnor, Lamont Street, Knoll, Edgbaston and Ivanhoe Streets, and Aberdeen Street, Endicott, Ordway, Carlton and Argyle Streets running back from the river. The lots were narrow, most of 2,500 square feet, for summer cottages.

The town accepted Pines Road between Cook Street and Sachem Street in 1930, tarred it in 1933, and laid water mains along it in 1940; its junction with Sachem Street was named Schofield Square, for Ralph T. Schofield, by 1931. In the selectmen's program of 1988 to 1991 against duplicate street names Carlton Street became Tom Grace Way, part of Montrose Street became MacDougall Street and Argyle Street became Dustin Young Lane; McGinness Way follows part of the old street plan.