Fox Street
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Also COLUMBIA, INGALLS AND BRADLEY STS.
William Bradley Fox was a pioneer industrialist in Worcester.
His large woolen mill once stood about where St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church is at 177 Madison street, corner of Harding street.
In Lincoln and Hersey’s “History of Worcester” under a listing of “Fires and Injuries by Lighting,” is this entry:
“1834, Jan. 31. The dry house of the woolen factory of W. B. Fox & Co. took fire, but was extinguished. Loss about $500.”
Not far from the factory was Mr. Fox’s residence on what is now Columbia street. When his estate was pierced as Worcester expanded, new streets there became Fox and Ingalls street. Fox’s wife was Eliza Ingalls.
Bradley street may have been named for Fox’s middle name. But historian Franklin P. Rice wrote that it was for Osgood Bradley.
The core of this article comes from A History of Your City Streets.
