Fore Street
| Fore Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Beechview |
| Fate | Probably eliminated during the widening of Banksville Road in 1937–1938 |
| Front Street (until 1910, 1920–1928) | |
| Rye Avenue (1910–1920) | |
| Origin of name | Rye, the grain |
This former street parallel to and immediately south of Banksville Road, east of Wenzell Avenue, was originally named Front Street. It appears in the 1905 Hopkins atlas along the south side of the tracks of the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway.[1]
In 1910, in order to get free mail delivery from Pittsburgh, the Board of Commissioners of Union Township adopted an ordinance that established the names of all streets in the township.[2] It was apparently believed that this street was unnamed, and it was given the name Rye Avenue, named for the grain: other nearby streets were named Corn Avenue (today Tole Street) and Barley Avenue (today Hillgrove Avenue).[3] Rye Avenue is shown in the 1917 Hopkins atlas.[4]
In 1920, another Union Township ordinance changed Rye Avenue back to Front Street.[5]
Union Township was annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1928.[6] Shortly afterward, a Pittsburgh city ordinance changed the name of Front Street to Fore Street.[7]
In a 1937 column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Charles F. Danver wrote, "Pittsburgh has a Fore street and a Golf avenue."[8] Danver probably meant Golf Way in Summer Hill; Pittsburgh has never had a Golf Avenue.
Fore Street, lying immediately alongside Banksville Road, was probably eliminated during the widening of Banksville Road in 1937–1938.[9][10]
See also
- Fourth Street, for streets that have had a similar-sounding name
References
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 15. 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
- ↑ Minute book of Union Township, 1904–1911, p. 217. https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_0e30d565-1547-41d3-9dd2-a2d7a9ceb03b/. [view source] union-twp-minutes-1904-1911
- ↑ "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of avenues and streets in the Township of Union, Pa." Union township ordinance, 1910, no. 35. Enacted May 9, 1910. In ordinance book of Union Township, 1900–1913, p. 27 (https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_361f2943-ad0c-44c2-a705-1a71a3dccad9/). [view source] ordinance-1910-35
- ↑ Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 7, plate 11. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1917, revised 1928. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1917-volume-7-plat-book-pittsburgh-south-side-southern; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1917-vol-7
- ↑ "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of avenues and streets in the Township of Union, Allegheny County, Pa." Union township ordinance, 1920, no. 71. Enacted Mar. 2, 1920. In ordinance book of Union Township, 1912–1927, p. 120 (https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_67877691-f1a0-44ae-9f8b-d0836e5eb55e/). [view source] ordinance-1920-71
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Union Township–Pittsburgh City 1928 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/union-township-pittsburgh-city-1928-merger/. [view source] lgeo-banksville-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes, alleys and ways in the Twentieth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh (formerly Union Township)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1928, no. 35. Passed Feb. 6, 1928; approved Feb. 8, 1928. Ordinance Book 39, p. 483. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1928, appendix, pp. 43–44, Smith Bros. Co. Inc., Pittsburgh (Google Books PwGkOIBtAccC; HathiTrust uiug.30112109819810; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1928). [view source] ordinance-1928-35
- ↑ Charles F. Danver. Pittsburghesque. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 12, 1937, p. 8. Newspapers.com 90316941. [view source] danver-1937
- ↑ "Banksville Road work started." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, July 15, 1937, p. 3. Newspapers.com 523307263. [view source] banksville-road-work-started
- ↑ "Banksville Road officially opens." Pittsburgh Press, Sept. 4, 1938, p. 4. Newspapers.com 147493195. [view source] banksville-road-officially-opens
