Chestnut Street
| Chestnut Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | East Allegheny, North Shore, Troy Hill |
| Origin of name | Chestnut tree |
Chestnut Street was laid out in 1836 in the plan of lots of G. E. Warner, Jacob Painter, and F. Lorenz.[1]
The streets in this plan perpendicular to the Allegheny River were named after trees: the others were Walnut Street (today Warfield Street), Cherry Street (today Chesbro Street), Sycamore Street (today Heinz Street), and Pine Street (later Pindam Street).[1][2] Several of the alleys in the plan were also named for trees—Beech Alley (today Bolin Way), Locust Alley (later part of Gazena Way), and Cherry Alley (later Converge Way)—while others were named for businesses or professions dealing with wood: Sawmill Alley (today Saw Mill Way), Carpenter Alley (today Carpenter Way), and Lumberman's Alley (later Lumberman Way).[1]
The reason for all these names was that G. E. Warner was a lumber merchant.[3] His firm, G. E. Warner & Co., had their offices at the corner of Penn and Wayne Streets[4][5] (today Penn Avenue and 10th Street). They operated a steam saw mill on the Allegheny River at Saw Mill Run[4][5] (the mouth of the streams that flowed from what are now called Spring Garden and the East Street Valley),[6] at the intersection of Sycamore Street and Sawmill Alley.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Plan of town lots laid out by the subscriber A. D. 1836 for Messrs Warner, Painter & Lorenz and this is a true copy April 18, 1839: James Sterritt." Laid out 1836; recorded Dec. 29, 1869, Plan Book 1, p. 81. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3778779. [view source] warner-painter-lorenz-plan
- ↑ George T. Fleming. "History told in Pittsburgh street names: Some commemorative designations have been lost, but others are still in use to recall the story of their selection: Haphazard municipal nomenclature." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Nov. 29, 1914, sec. 5, p. 2. Newspapers.com 85906737. [view source] fleming-history-told
- ↑ Isaac Harris. Harris' Pittsburgh & Allegheny Directory, with the Environs, &c.: Including the Boroughs of Lawrenceville and Birmingham, and all the towns and principal inhabitants within five miles of the City of Pittsburgh, with their trades, business or occupation, and the public, literary, scientific & religious institutions: With a variety of interesting statistical notices, making with "Harris' Pittsburgh and Western Business Directory," a complete account of Pittsburgh & vicinity. A. A. Anderson, Pittsburgh, 1839, p. 180. Internet Archive harrispittsburgh00harr. [view source] harris-1839
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Isaac Harris. Harris' Pittsburgh Business Directory, for the Year 1837: Including the names of all the merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, professional [sic], & men of business of Pittsburgh and its vicinity. Isaac Harris, Pittsburgh, 1837, pp. 73, 86. DonsList.net PGH1837_BDM; Historic Pittsburgh 00afv6656m, 31735056287505. [view source] harris
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Isaac Harris. Harris' General Business Directory, of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny: And also of the most flourishing and important towns and cities of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Western New York, Virginia, &c., containing a correct outline of their general business, together with a statement of the canal and steamboat business, and commerce on the waters of the West; a statistical view of the moral, religious, and literary societies, and a variety of important general and statistical information, with an index, at the end of the volume. A. A. Anderson, Pittsburgh, 1841, pp. 54, 68, 142. Internet Archive harrisgeneralbus_01harr. [view source] harris-1841
- ↑ Wm. Darby. Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent Country. R. Patterson and W. Darby, Philadelphia, 1815. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0197, DARMAP0198. Reproduced in John W. Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States, p. 207, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1965 (LCCN 63023414); and in Bruce J. Buvinger, The Origin, Development and Persistence of Street Patterns in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, p. 24. Also reproduced as "Plan von Pittsburg und Umgebungen" in Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Heinrich Luden, ed.), Reise Sr. Hoheit des Herzogs Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826, vol. II, following p. 200, Wilhelm Hoffmann, Weimar, 1828 (Internet Archive reisesrhoheitdes00bern, reisesrhoheitdes00inbern). [view source] darby
- ↑ 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
