Article: WHY WE DON'T FLY OUT OF HEGENBERGER AIRPORT AND OTHER STORIES OF HOW BOSTON'S BRIDGES, CIRCLES, SQUARES, AND SKYWAYS GOT THEIR NAMES

While driving through the Callahan Tunnel, did you ever wonder how it was that an otherwise not particularly famous 24-year-old Army lieutenant named William F. Callahan Jr. came to have a major traffic facility named after him?

Does the fact that William F. Callahan Sr. built the tunnel make it any clearer?

Like many other roads, bridges, tunnels, and circles in Greater Boston's pantheon of public works, the name on the Callahan Tunnel exemplifies the importance of family and patronage in determining who gets to live forever in road-map fame. Some other examples include Metropolitan District Commission parkways named after former MDC commissioners; the Tobin Bridge, named after the ...

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