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TheLamestUsername t1_ja6aulh wrote

Reply to Does anyone know why there are so many street names with Scottish origin near Cleveland circle? by 3720-To-One

https://www.boston.gov/historic-district/aberdeen-architectural-conservation-district

Behold the Aberdeen Historic District!

The neighborhood derived its name from the Aberdeen Land Company, which was founded in 1890. The company’s stock was held by twenty five investors, mostly Boston area financiers, merchants, and manufacturers. It was chartered to operate until 1915, for the express purpose of developing the area residentially. One of its largest stockholders was Henry M. Whitney, the transportation mogul who had developed Beacon Street. Others included G.T.W. Braman, President of the Boston Water Power Company; Noah W. Jordan, President and Chairman of the Board of the American Loan & Trust Company; and Isaac T. Burr, President of the Bank of North America. Two of the largest stockholders, incidentally, were Brighton men, George A. Wilson and Benjamin F. Ricker. As prior owners of land in the area, they probably traded their acreage for Aberdeen Land Company stock.

While there were other land companies that held property in the neighborhood, one being Henry Whitney's own West End Land Company, there seems little question that its present design, its street patterns and place names are a legacy of the Aberdeen Land Company.

The company was named for a Scottish county and many of the streets in Aberdeen likewise bear Anglo-Scottish names: Lanark, Sutherland, Kinross, Orkney, Strathmore, Radnor, Windsor, and Warwick, among others. How are we to account for this nomenclature? The British Empire was at the height of its prestige in the 1890s; also, the works of the immensely popular novelist Sir Walter Scott had given a special aura of romanticism to things Scottish. These Anglo-Scottish shire names carried just the right hint of the prestige and exclusiveness that Aberdeen’s projectors wished to attach to their emergent elite neighborhood.

http://www.bahistory.org/HistoryAberdeenBill.html

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TheLamestUsername t1_ixaynrd wrote

Reply to comment by johndburger in Now he brings it up: Councilor worries ordinance requiring info on police surveillance technologies could mean release of 'classified' information year after he voted for it by EnjoyTheNonsense

The issue is does giving info on locations and devices put investigations at risk and would some of it possibly be part of a classified investigation.

So let’s say a few BPD detectives, who have clearance, are working with the FBI joint terrorism task force (JTTF; which is an entity some ACLU types don’t want PD’s to be involved with but let’s put that aside). The investigation is classified and has an open grand jury. As part of the investigation, a BPD covert camera has been attached outside the residence of the target as well as outside of a location he uses to meet with suspected collaborators.

Can you see the issues with disclosing the locations of the two cameras?

The notion that she actually believes that BPD does not already have access to classified info and does not think that they should, clearly speaks to how ill informed she is.

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