Back Bay Cross Streets are named.

According to Edward Everett, Arlington Street is named for the attack on the retreating British troops in what was also called Menotomy; Berkeley for Bishop Berkeley; Clarendon for the Clarendon Press in Oxford; Dartmouth for the Earl of Dartmouth, the cabinet member most sympathetic to the Colonies; Exeter for Exeter Academy; Fairfield for the former governor of Maine; Gloucester for the town on Cape Ann; and Hereford Street for the English county.