V. J. Hultquit, city manager of Alcoa, Tennessee from its incorporation in 1919 until 1948, named its original city streets for trees, American presidents, local historical figures, and this group of people.
Inventors. There are nearly forty streets in Alcoa named for inventors from Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Young (English physicist and physician).
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