Section 6. Dr. Frank Erdman Boston Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Frank Erdman Boston was born on March 10, 1890, in Philadelphia and later attended Lincoln University, originally established as The Ashmun Institute, the nation's first degree-granting Historically Black College and University.
(2) Frank Boston then attended the Medico-Chirurgical College, an outgrowth of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Philadelphia, which merged with the University of Pennsylvania Medical College and Jefferson Medical College.
(3) Dr. Boston enlisted and was immediately given the rank of first lieutenant in the Army Medical Reserve Corps, where he served in France during World War I with the rank of captain and ended his military service as a major.
(4) After the war, Dr. Boston returned to work in Philadelphia and later settled in Lansdale where he opened the Elm Terrace Hospital, which was later renamed North Penn Hospital and subsequently became part of the Abington-Jefferson Health Systems.
(5) Dr. Boston also formed a First Aid Emergency Squad in Lansdale, eventually known as the Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale, and was a member of the Reserve Officers Association of Military Surgeons, the Montgomery County Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
(6) Dr. Boston died on February 8, 1960, at 69 years of age, and was buried in Lansdale.
(b) Designation.--The portion of State Route 2004, also known as North Broad Street, within the Borough of Lansdale and Hatfield Township, Montgomery County, is designated the Dr. Frank Erdman Boston Memorial Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to traffic in both directions on the highway.