Dickens Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Dickens Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Crafton Heights |
| Origin of name | Charles Dickens |
| Meadow Avenue (until 1922) | |
| Portion | Southeast of Crucible Street |
| Maple Avenue (until 1922) | |
| Portion | Between Crucible and Du Bois Streets |
| Sylvania Avenue (until 1922) | |
| Portion | South of Du Bois Street |
This street was originally named Meadow Avenue.[1] It was renamed Dickens Street in 1922.[2][3]
At one time Dickens Street continued across Crucible Street to the northwest, meeting Du Bois Street and turning south to Fairston Street.[4] The segment between Crucible and Du Bois streets was originally Maple Avenue and that south of Du Bois Street was Sylvania Avenue,[1] both of which were also renamed Dickens Street in 1922.[2][3] Today only a small stub of this part of Dickens Street remains, at the south end of Du Bois Street.
Bob Regan includes "Dickens" in a list of streets named for noted historical people;[5] the implied eponym seems to be Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British author.
See also
- Maple Avenue, for other streets that have had that name
- Meadow Street
- South 18th Street, originally named Meadow Street
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 21. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1905. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1905-plat-book-southern-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1905
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "An ordinance changing the names of various streets, avenues, lanes, roads, alleys and ways in the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth Wards (formerly Chartiers Township)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1922, no. 336. Passed Oct. 2, 1922; approved Oct. 3, 1922. Ordinance Book 33, p. 604. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1922, appendix, pp. 238–244, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Google Books -UEtAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223972; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1922). [view source] ordinance-1922-336
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Street names in two wards to be changed: Former Chartiers township thoroughfares will be renamed by city: Many made official." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, June 4, 1922, second section, p. 3. Newspapers.com 85873495. [view source] street-names-in-two-wards
- ↑ Alexander Gross. Pittsburgh and Vicinity: Featuring transit lines and house numbers. Geographia Map Co. Inc., New York, 1953. Published with Alexander Gross, The Complete Street Guide to Pittsburgh and 16 Nearby Suburbs: With large map of Pittsburgh and suburbs; streets, house numbers, transportation lines, places of interest, churches, etc., etc., Geographia Map Co. Inc., New York, 1953 (DonsList.net PghStreets1953M). A slightly different version entitled The Premier Map of Pittsburgh and Vicinity is reproduced in Sam Stephenson, ed., Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, pp. 22–23, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2023, ISBN 978-0-226-82483-3 (LCCN 2022055151). [view source] gross-map
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, p. 63. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
