This week, we will take a look at some streets that no longer exist or have been renamed. Most Windham area people recall that present day Club Road was formerly called Cemetery Road. It was changed due to the fact that Saint Joseph’s Living Center was built there along with the clubhouses for the Knights of Columbus and the French Club. Valley Street Extension was once called Nelligan’s Court. Circa 1880, there was a move to put a street between Jackson Street and Milk Street but it was voted down several times. One of the main supporters for a street there was Michael Nelligan, a Willimantic alderman who owned not only the store on the corner but several other tenements in the area. The street was finally approved and the name “Nelligan’s Court” shows up in old city directories. Until the first decade of 1900, Willimantic had an Oak Street Senior and an Oak Street Junior . An old directory says Oak Street Senior’s  location was, "starting at East Main Street near the Fairground and runs northerly across the N.Y&N.E track, thence westerly, crossing Jackson". That would have been today’s Ash Street. Oak St. Junior was today’s Oak Street but at that time ended at Prospect Street. Today’s Clark Street was originally named Washington Street and the name appears to have been changed between 1890 and 1900. Old newspaper articles and directories refer to Washington St. but none gives the reason for the name change. Factory Street once ran from Main Street to Mill 3 of the Willimantic Linen Co. A building was removed from it and It was closed off in 1915 as part of the planning for Rec Park. It was to be replaced by “a fine walkway”. Indeed, as the Thread Company grew, several changes were made to nearby streets. State Street and Water Street ran from Union Street to Main Street. Lilac Street was a short street that ran from the intersection of Milk and Union Streets. Mill Museum Director  Jamie Eves says, “Before the construction of Mill No. 2 in 1863, there was an entire neighborhood located just east of the Iron Works Bridge (replaced by the stone arch bridge that is today's Garden on the Bridge). In constructing the Linen Company, streets and buildings were demolished and the whole neighborhood was reshaped.” Many city residents today remember the time before the Frog Bridge was built and Route 32 took motorists between two of the Thread Mill buildings,  under the ATCO “skywalk” and railroad tracks. There was a short turnoff that could be used to take a right turn onto Pleasant Street. That was Willimantic’s original “Spring Street”. Jamie Eves came across a map which showed the actual spring. Here is Jamie’s account. “ The surprise was that the map showed a spring in the street, where one of the short connecting streets climbed the riverbank to Pleasant Street, partly in the connector and partly in Pleasant Street. The spring even had a name, Willimantic Spring, hinting that it was probably pretty sizeable. Today, no sign of that spring is visible at that location -- it must be deeply buried.   Indeed, that whole location, profoundly altered by human engineering even in 1899, has been altered yet again, with even more human engineering today. Maps like this one not only let us see what former engineered landscapes were like, but also provide clues -- like the spring -- about what our cities were like before humans arrived, when Nature still prevailed.” Our discussion of city streets will continue next week. ). The online threadcity is being rebuilt with more articles and photos added weekly. Log on to threadcity.epizy.com to discover more facts about Willimantic, Windham and surrounding towns.