This street was named from the Lepper family who owned the "Lodge Mill", a cotton manufacturing concern founded by Francis Lepper and his brother Charles, along with two business friends. The mill was opened in March 1811. It stood between the New Lodge Road and the graveyard of the Belfast Charitable Society. Charles Lepper built "Lepper Lodge" a substantial house with ample grounds which stood between the mill and New Lodge Road. It was pulled down about 1885. Francis Lepper built "Trainfield House" in 1824, and it continued in the occupation of the Lepper family until 1866. The "Lodge Mill" was disposed of to a Lancashire firm about 1868. It was burned down in 1875, find as the cotton trade was not in a very flourishing state it was never rebuilt. Churchill and Dawson streets occupy its site". (Belfast Street Names. John J. Marshall).