 After streets were laid out in 1878, it came to be known as Lincolnville (in the 1860s the northwest corner of modern Lincolnville was a orange grove owned by Abraham Lincoln's private secretary, John Hay.He later served as Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt).Over the decades the settlement was expanded from this northeast area, around present-day Washington, Oneida, Dumas, St. Francis, St. Benedict and DeHaven streets, and businessmen developed the entire peninsula.