Canton Avenue
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Canton Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Beechview |
| Wikipedia | Canton Avenue |
| First Avenue (until 1908) | |
| Origin of name | Sequential numbering of avenues in West Liberty Plan No. 2 |
This street was originally laid out as First Avenue in 1903 as part of the West Liberty Plan No. 2 by the Beechwood Improvement Company.[1][2]
The Borough of Beechview was created in 1905.[3] In 1908, a borough ordinance changed the names of many streets; First Avenue was renamed Canton Avenue.[4]
Beechview was annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1909,[5] and the name Canton Avenue was officially established by a Pittsburgh ordinance that same year.[6]
Canton Avenue is famous as the steepest street in Pittsburgh (and possibly the steepest in the United States), with a grade of 37 percent.[2]
See also
- Canteen Street, a former street that was originally named Canton Street
- First Avenue
- First Street (disambiguation), for other streets that have been numbered First
References
- ↑ "West Liberty plan of lots № 2: Located in Union T'w'p and West Liberty Borough, Allegheny Co. Pa. as laid out by the Beechwood Improvement Co. L'td, Pittsburg, Pa." Laid out 1903; recorded June 30, 1903, Plan Book 20, pp. 116–117. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 6096846. [view source] west-liberty-plan-2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Audrey Iacone, Anna Loney, Nate Marini, and Robert Thomas. Beechview, p. 15. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C., 2005, ISBN 978-0-7385-3788-7. LCCN 2004117973. [view source] iacone-loney-marini-thomas
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Beechview Borough 1905 Creation." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/beechview-borough-1905-creation/. [view source] lgeo-beechview-creation
- ↑ "An ordinance providing for the re-naming and fixing the names of the streets and avenues in the Borough of Beechview." Beechview borough ordinance, 1908, no. 34. Passed Apr. 28, 1908; approved May 1, 1908. In Ordinance Book, Beechview Boro, vol. 1, p. 129, 1905–1908 (https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_cb7abf93-5e59-4b94-ae2c-cf52696d12c2/). [view source] ordinance-1908-34
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Beechview Borough–Pittsburgh City 1909 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/beechview-borough-pittsburgh-city-1909-merger/. [view source] lgeo-beechview-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes and alleys in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth wards of the City of Pittsburgh (formerly known as the Boroughs of West Liberty and Beechview)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1909, no. 375. Passed Oct. 14, 1909; approved Oct. 20, 1909. Ordinance Book 20, p. 614. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1909–1910, appendix, pp. 146–150, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1910 (Google Books doQzAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223832; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1909). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 11, 1909, p. 8 (Newspapers.com 86421216), and Nov. 12, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 86421491). [view source] ordinance-1909-375
