Roanoke Street
| Roanoke Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Allentown |
| Origin of name | Maybe Roanoke, Virginia |
| Robinson Road (until 1881) | |
This street appears, unlabeled, in the 1852 map of R. E. McGowin.[1] It is (perhaps mistakenly) labeled Brownsville Road in the 1882 Hopkins atlas.[2] (That name had been applied in the 1872 edition to the road that is today Arlington Avenue, which was also called the Brownsville Turnpike[3] and which was called Brownsville Avenue in the 1882 atlas.[2]) An 1881 ordinance establishing the names of all streets in Pittsburgh says that this street had been formerly named Robinson Road and established the new name Roanoke Street.[4] Roanoke Street appears in the 1890 Hopkins atlas.[5]
Bob Regan includes "Roanoke" in a list of streets named for cities.[6] It is possible that the street is named for Roanoke, Virginia, but the name Roanoke has other associations as well: it was originally the name of a Native American people, for which were named Roanoke Island, the Roanoke River, and the ill-fated Roanoke Colony, among other namesakes. There is no evidence that the street was named for the Virginia city in particular.
References
- ↑ R. E. McGowin. Map of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny and of the Boroughs of South-Pittsburgh, Birmingham, East-Birmingham, Lawrenceville, Duquesne & Manchester etc. Schuchman & Haunlein, Pittsburgh, 1852. https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/32269. [view source] mcgowin-1852
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Atlas of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny, plate 26. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1882. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1882-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1882 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1882
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, pp. 23, 100, 104. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1872. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1872-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1872 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1872
- ↑ "An ordinance establishing the names of avenues, streets, lanes and alleys of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1881, no. 33. Passed Feb. 28, 1881; approved Mar. 4, 1881. Ordinance Book 5, p. 212. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1880, pp. 213–234 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1880). [view source] ordinance-1881-33
- ↑ Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 5, plate 10. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1890. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1890-volume-5-atlas-pittsburgh; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1890-vol-5
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, p. 65. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
