Biography - John J. Calhoun

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Calhoun, arrived in Juneau from Wisconsin in 1888 and established a dairy along what is now Calhoun Avenue. They occupied Block 32, now the site of the Governor's House, and part of Block 43, and grazed their cows along Gold Creek, the south bank of which was sometimes called Calhoun Flats. In 1902 they sold the dairy and moved to Seattle where John Calhoun died in 1906. Mrs. Calhoun died at Nanaimo, British Columbia, April 27, 1912.

Calhoun Avenue - a residential street and principal traffic artery running along the edge of the bluff from Fourth Street to Gold Creek. Named for Mrs. Mary V. Calhoun. The street was first opened about 1890 to provide access to Evergreen Cemetery, which had then just been established. It was first known as Cemetery Road and this name continued in use at least as late as 1902. It then became Calhoun Road and finally Calhoun Avenue.

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