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building had flourished, finding here better facilities for their chosen occupation; and so it came about that soon afterward a name was given to this street which seemed exactly fitting; for at a town meeting held May 4, 1829, a committee that had been appointed to recommend names for the streets reported as follows: From Porter's corner southeast to Wellington farm, Ship Street. Unfortunately after fifty years the name Ship street was laid aside on petition of the last ship-builder of the Ship-street yards. Perhaps it seemed to him an appropriate thing to do, as ship-building was then in its decline in Medford, and it happened that he built the last ship. On Nov. 15, 1872, it was voted at town meeting that the name of Ship street be changed to Riverside Avenue, on petition of J. T. Foster and others. The oldest residents on Riverside avenue and many others born and brought up on the old street still cling to the familiar name Ship street. A quotation from the Boston Transcrip