Hello Carruth family researchers,
Found an interesting bit of information at the address listed below I thought you might be
interested in. Part of it is copied below the address.
Best Wishes,
Harvey Carrouth
http://www.cieinc.com/codmansquare/tourbg/history.htm
CARRUTH STREET
"Extending from Ashmont Street south to Gallivan Boulevard, the neighborhood around
Carruth Street and its side streets (most notably, Beaumont, Fairfax, and Rowena Streets,
Elmer Road and Radford Lane) were laid out at about the time of Dorchester's
annexation to the City of Boston in 1870. Named for Nathan Carruth, a nabob of the
clipper-shipping trade who was perhaps more significantly the first president of the Old
Colony Railroad, Carruth Street was planned for residential subdivision shortly
thereafter; however, the financial panic of the early 1870s hindered large-scale building
for more than a decade. Nathan Carruth's son Herbert built his own home at 30 Beaumont
Street in 1877, and by the time better economic conditions returned in the 1880s, Herbert
Carruth began to develop his late father's estate in earnest. Hitherto a bookseller,
as a real estate developer the younger Carruth exercised considerable control over his
family's landholdings, stipulating standard set!
backs and including deed restrictions forbidding the stabling of horses on the house lots
he sold. As an avid ornamental gardener, Carruth also took a lively interest in the
aesthetics of the neighborhood, which he envisioned as a garden suburb to be ornamented by
commodious houses in the fashionable styles of the day."