Wedgemere Street
Wedgemere Street
| Location | Map |
| Neighborhood | Concord River Park Annex |
| Laid Out | 1988 |
| Right of Way | 40 ft |
| Pavement | 18 ft |
Wedgemere Street is a short dead-end street in North Billerica, running northwest from the end of Mcdonough Way toward Call Street in the Concord River Park Annex. It was laid out on the "Plan of Concord River Park Annex, North Billerica, Mass.," drawn by Whitman and Howard, civil engineers, of Boston and dated March 25, 1911, for the heirs of Owen Murningham, who had bought the ten acres from Robert Call in 1880; the plan was not recorded until November 25, 1913 (Plan Book 31, Plan 10). Wedgemere Street was the northernmost of its three parallel streets, 40 feet wide and about 650 feet long from Call Street to Woodland Road, with twenty house lots on its north side and fourteen on its south. The plan does not explain the name. Wedgemere is also the name of a neighborhood and railroad station in Winchester, Massachusetts, but no record connects the two.
Only Myrtle Street was opened. The directories of 1916 to 1931 list Myrtle Street and Westland Road (the plan's Woodland Road) but not Wedgemere Street, which stayed a paper street for more than seventy years. At the fall town meeting of 1989, on October 17, the town voted to discontinue the end of Wedgemere Street at Call Street, "a way 40 feet wide and 87 feet, more or less, long," keeping a drain and utility easement. About 1988 houses were built at the far end of the street, reached by the new McDonough Way, which runs across the far ends of the three streets about where the plan drew Woodland Road; the Kasher Corporation sold one of them in 1989.
The spring town meeting of 2002, at its session of May 14, 2002, accepted Wedgemere Street "McDonough Way to Dead End," about 270 feet, as a public way, with a list of other streets. The street was not on the official town map of 1831, and its name has not changed since 1911.