The Nomenclature of Georgetown. 45. 
The portion of the street, running through Cumingsburg, somehow got 
designated Main street by which name it is still often called, but its proper name 
is certainly High street. 
Camp street was so named because it is the leading thoroughfare to the Camp, 
or garrison, at the extreme north end of the city. 
Kingston takes its name from good King George, and the Fort William 
Frederick, from the Prince of Orange. 
Kingston formed part of Plantation Eve Leary, named after the wife or 
daughter of the original proprietor, Cornelis Leary, the name being still retained 
in the designation of the garrison lands, forming the remainder of the old estate. 
Indeed, with two exceptions, all the Kingston street names—Barrack, Fort, 
Duke and Parade—relate to its military occupation, Duke street being named 
after one of the Royal Dukes, sons of George III. The laying out of the town 
district of Kingston was in accordance with the charts of Louis Chollet of 1797 
and Joseph Hadfield of 1816. 
The land north of Young street, 28 acres in extent, was sold by the original 
owner Paadevoorts in 1797 to the Government—probably the Board of Ordnance, 
Young street—in some of the older charts called Camp Road—takes its name 
from H. Fox Young, a former Government Secretary, long before the days of 
the Hon. Wm. A. G. Young, our friend of later years, whose sons are still promi- 
nent members of the Public Service, and his daughter wife of our present respected 
Governor, Sir Frederic M. Hodgson, K.C.M.G. 
Cowan street is named after Edward Cowan, at one time Assistant Commissary 
General at the garrison here. 
CumincspurG was formerly Pln. La Bourgade, and was laid out in streets 
and building lots by its proprietor, Mr. Thomas Cuming, who called the district 
after his family name, as per chart of Andrew Rose, 8.1.8. of 1807. He made 
a free gift to the town of the site of Cumingsburg Market, and the plots 
of land known as the Militia Parade Ground and Promenade Garden, the latter 
of which was subsequently enlarged by the purchase by the Town Council in 
1881 and 1890 of the lots bordering on New Market street, between Carmichael 
street and Waterloo street. Cumingsburg has a wide fagade of 200 roods, being 
double that of any of the other town districts, and is divided into two sections, 
known as North and South Cumingsburg. 
A striking feature of the Cumingsburg district is the provision made for fresh 
water reservoirs in the centre of its wide double streets running north and south: 
these are stocked with small fish-fry which feed on the mosquito larve and so 
tend to keep the pest in check : the surfaces of these reservoirs are more or less 
covered with Victoria Regia and Lotus lilies, introduced and planted by myself 
within comparatively recent times. 
The High street reservoirs were filled up after considerable discussion in 
1895-1896, concreted side drains being constructed to receive the surface drain- 
age of the street on either side, and the centre formed into a shelled walk, or 
