"Old Slave Road" Will Remain the Name of Wildwood Street
The city council failed to take up the request by a property owner who had requested that the name of the private road be changed.
The normally mundane task of petitioning a city for the change of a street name that transformed into a divisive debate over history and race in the city of Wildwood has come to a conclusion. A petition to change Old Slave Road to Elijah Madison Lane failed to gain traction at a Wildwood City Council Monday when a motion to begin the process did not received a second. The lack of action formed the end, for now, of a long-running saga that began last fall when a property owner and resident on the private street, Karen Fox, petitioned for the change, originally asking it be renamed Spiceberry Lane. Fox told the council Monday night that the current name is “offensive” and the requested alteration will still reflect the area’s history. She …
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Rufus Jones
8:03 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
You are correct, however given the fact her name is Helen Madison it could be viewed differently. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/old-slave-road-in-wildwood-keeps-its-name/article_4a57ca80-fe93-5e06-bee8-3ccdc70aa25c.html more ›