Edgerton Avenue
| Edgerton Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Point Breeze |
Edgerton Avenue appears in George E. Peebles' Park Place plan, laid out in May 1860 and recorded in July 1869. This plan includes the portion of Edgerton Avenue between Park Avenue (today Braddock Avenue) and Peebles Street.[1]
In November 1869, a Pittsburgh city ordinance authorized the surveying and opening of Edgerton Avenue "from its intersection with Forbes street to the city line."[2] The 1872 Hopkins atlas shows the original route of Edgerton Avenue: it included modern Northumberland Street from Forbes to Dallas Avenue, passed through what is now Homewood Cemetery to the modern intersection of Edgerton and Homewood Avenue, and then turned east to meet the city line at Peebles Street.[3]
In 1881 the portion of Edgerton Avenue that is today Northumberland Street was made part of Homewood Avenue, and the remainder of Edgerton Avenue was extended on paper to Fifth Avenue,[4] though it was never actually built beyond Gettysburg Street.
References
- ↑ "Park Place plan of lots: Laid out for George E. Peebles." Laid out May 1860; recorded July 17, 1869, Plan Book 3, pp. 310–311. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3778748. [view source] park-place-plan
- ↑ "An ordinance authorizing the surveying and opening of Egerton [sic] avenue." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1869. Enacted Nov. 29, 1869. In The Municipal Record: Containing the proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh: 1869, p. 108, Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1868_20200904_2014). [view source] ordinance-1869-edgerton
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, p. 67. 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
