Erin Street
| Erin Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Middle Hill |
| Origin of name | Erin Hill |
This street appears in the Erin Hill Farm plan of lots, recorded in 1841, though that plan does not give it a name. Since the street as drawn continues significantly beyond the bounds of the plan, it is likely it had been laid out earlier.[1] It is labeled Erin Street in the 1845 map of R. E. M'Gowan.[2]
It is named for Erin Hill, which was the name given to the hill south of Centre Avenue between about modern Devilliers Street and Kirkpatrick Street. Erin Hill is labeled in the 1830 map of Jean Barbeau and Lewis Keyon, and in Keyon's 1835 reprint of the same map.[3][4]
The name Erin Hill was also applied to an estate on the south side of Centre Avenue opposite Erin Street. The 1830 map shows a two-story house here, labeled "Irwin."[3] W. W. Irwin offered the house for lease in a newspaper advertisement that year.[5] George T. Fleming associates the estate with the attorney John D. Mahon, whose place of dwelling is given as "Erin Hill" in Isaac Harris' 1837 directory.[6][7]
References
- ↑ "Plan of Erin Hill Farm, Pitt Twp.: John S. Irwin's executors." Recorded Dec. 24, 1841, Plan Book 1, pp. 96–97. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3778194. [view source] erin-hill-farm-plan
- ↑ R. E. M'Gowan. Map of Pittsburgh & Vicinity: Designating the portion destroyed by fire, April 10, 1845. J. W. Cook, Pittsburgh, 1845. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pittsburgh_map_1845.jpg. Published in the front matter of J. Heron Foster, A Full Account of the Great Fire at Pittsburgh, on the Tenth Day of April, 1845: With the Individual Losses, and Contributions for Relief, J. W. Cook, Pittsburgh, 1845 (Internet Archive fullaccountofgre00fost) and of O. Ormsby Gregg, Isaac Gregg, and Moses F. Eaton, Pittsburgh, Her Advantageous Position and Great Resources, as a Manufacturing and Commercial City, Embraced in a Notice of Sale of Real Estate, Johnson & Stockton, Pittsburgh, 1845 (Google Books nrJs-DDEN1sC; Historic Pittsburgh 00afu7810m). [view source] mcgowin-1845
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jean Barbeau and Lewis Keyon. Map of Pittsburgh and Its Environs. N. B. Molineux, Pittsburgh, 1830. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0576; https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/36c3ab00-57aa-0136-8f4f-08990f217bc9. [view source] barbeau
- ↑ Lewis Keyon. Map of Pittsburgh and Its Environs. Johnston & Stockton, Pittsburgh, 1835. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0577; 1835 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] keyon
- ↑ W. W. Irwin. "To be let." Pittsburgh Gazette, May 4, 1830, [p. 3]. Newspapers.com 96009956. [view source] ww-irwin-1830-05-04
- ↑ 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, p. 63. DonsList.net PGH1837_BDM; Historic Pittsburgh 00afv6656m, 31735056287505. [view source] harris
- ↑ George T. Fleming. "Old Minersville: Directory of Minersville—names of prominent Pittsburgh people reprinted—coal producers of that era—coal mines and coke ovens: Job Inder's recollections drawn on—Pitt Township taxables of 1853 recalled: A forgotten hamlet—tales of a prosperous suburb of eighty years ago—out the Pike, otherwise the old Seventh street road: Hilly Pitt Township located—Isaac Harris' descriptions—a prosperous place." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Mar. 8, 1925, sec. 5, [p. 2]. Newspapers.com 86280695. [view source] fleming-minersville
