Some Incongruous Street Names In Northern and Central Connecticut

NORTH-CENTRAL CT — Most roadways in America, particularly in Hartford and Tolland counties, are named in logical fashion. Mountain Street in Ellington certainly forces drivers and pedestrians to scale a steep incline, as do the roads of the same name in Somers, West Hartford and Suffield. Mile Hill Road in Coventry is indeed a mile long, while Four Bridges Road in Somers does in fact contain four small bridges.

Sometimes, however, logic goes out the window in either the naming of streets, or wacky juxtaposition of road names and buildings. Patch editors have selected five of these oddball situations, and encourage readers to submit their own thoughts.

Beelzebub Rd., South Windsor

• Another name for the devil in many Christian societies, Beelzebub is not only a street name in South Windsor, but at the corner of Avery St. and Beelzebub sits the Avery Street Christian Reformed Church (shown at the top of this story).

Main St., Enfield

• In every community in this country, Main St. is among its longest or busiest thoroughfares. Not in Enfield, where Main St. is just three-tenths of a mile long, containing a bait and tackle shop, a social club, an apartment complex and a lone house, ending at the Connecticut River.

Bread and Milk St., Coventry

• Even in the most panic-driven rush for essentials during a potential upcoming dusting of snow, bread and milk cannot be bought on this street, as it contains no stores. The closest thing is Twin Hills Country Club, which isn't even open in winter. Sorry, no luck.

Hang Dog Lane, Wethersfield

• By Webster's definition of the term, one would expect all the residents of this street on the Wethersfield/Rocky Hill line to constantly walk around with sad, dejected faces. On the other hand, using a slang definition of the phrase ... well, never mind.

Drury Lane, West Hartford

• Not one shred of credible evidence has ever been uncovered to positively prove the muffin man ever lived here.

Patch editor Chris Dehnel contributed to this story.