Harvard Street
From Worcester Activist wiki
On Sept. 17, 1757, the citizens of Worcester-about 900 souls- popped their eyes wide when General Amherst marched into town with 4000 men.
Fresh from the conquest of Louisburg and bound for the West in the French and Indian Wars, the army bivouacked for several days on the ridge of what is now Harvard street.
Great excitement raged in Worcester. Such a large group of men had never before been seen here.
There is no record-but a least one Worcesterite must have prodded his neighbor: “Some day Worcester will hold that many-wait and see.”
Lord Jeffery made his headquarters at the Chandler farm, near the bottom of Chandler hill. John and his brother, Samuel Chandler, were then the largest landowners.
Wrote the general in his diary: “The town is in a very pretty situation, finely watered, but this will probably change and I imagine in one hundred years the country will want wood.”
The Harvard street area became the property of the Green family.
In 1864, Dr. John Green extended Worcester to the west by laying out a street somewhat parallel to Main street. The new way sliced through the Green garden and some excellent pasture land.
Dr. Green, who received his medical degree from Harvard, named the street after the college.
The next year, Harvard street was extended to Highland and, on the south, to Sudbury street.
The core of this article comes from A History of Your City Streets.
