The article features street name such as "race" and "savage". There is more than one definition for the word "race", unless you're a racist idiot apparently. "Savage" is likely meant to honor a person of notoriety. Many old street names where drafted by the original resident who lived there. In general street names then to be of places [other states/cities] or sometimes things (such as names of trees) and intersected by numbers. Any street name outside of that naming convention likely has some historical significance.