My in-laws live in western Massachusetts and I always wondered why the name of their small residential street suddenly changes halfway down the road. The story

My in-laws live in western Massachusetts and I always wondered why the name of their small residential street suddenly changes halfway down the road. The story is that there was an old county road that used to intersect that street years ago, and the law said that each segment of road intersected by a county road had to have a unique name. The road is long gone, but the impact remains.