[MassHistPres] Historic Street Name Signs

[Suzanne W Pelton]

Following the success of having replicas of our 1914 Westinghouse  
Streetlights (pictures below) installed in our historic village, the  
Lenox Historical Commission would like to install replicas of our  
historic street name sign in our Historic District too. To apply to  
our Community Preservation Committee for funding requires historical  
justification.   Is this THE historic iron sign or was there an  
earlier one? We believe our sign dates from c. 1920.  When did towns  
make the transition from wooden signs to iron signs? We haven't found  
any street signs pictured in historical photos of the town. Can  
anyone provide some information?

Suzanne W Pelton
Lenox Historical Commission

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Historic Lenox street name sign

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Lenox town officials in Gilded Age dress celebrate the lighting of  
replica
Westinghouse streetlights in Feb 2010.
  
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Lenox streetlights donated by George Westinghouse in 1914 were declared
an Endangered Historic Resource in MA in 2003