Edgebrook Avenue

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Edgebrook Avenue
Neighborhoods Bon Air, Brookline, Carrick
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Hughey Road (until 1907)
Origin of name Hughey family
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Putman Avenue (1906–1907)
Portion Southwesternmost part

A road in the location of modern Edgebrook Avenue appears, unlabeled, in the 1876 Hopkins atlas.[1] By 1905 it was known as Hughey Road,[2] named for the Hughey family, who owned about 100 acres of land at the southwest end of the road.[3][4][5] Maps of Allegheny County from the 1850s and 1860s show a house labeled "E. & W. Hughey" near modern Pioneer Avenue north of Brookline Boulevard.[6][7]

The southwesternmost part of the road became Putman Avenue in the 1906 plan of Brookline by the West Liberty Improvement Company.[8]

Hughey Road and Putman Avenue were together renamed Edgebrook Avenue by a West Liberty Borough ordinance in 1907.[9] West Liberty Borough was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1908,[10] and the name Edgebrook Avenue was officially established as a Pittsburgh street name the following year.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, p. 45. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1876. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1876-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; included in the 1872 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1876
  2. ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plates 10, 11. 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
  3. ↑ Atlas of the Vicinity of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, plate 22. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1886. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1886-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; included in the 1882 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1886
  4. ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penna., plates 3, 9. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1896. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1896%E2%80%93plat-book-southern-pittsburgh; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1896
  5. ↑ Clint Burton. "Joseph Hughey and the Hughey Farm: Brookline Pioneer." Brookline Connection. https://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Personalities/Hughey.html. [view source] brookline-connection-hughey
  6. ↑ Sidney & Neff and S. McRea. Map of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, with the Names of Property-Holders. Philadelphia, 1851. LCCN 2012592150. [view source] sidney-neff
  7. ↑ S. N. & F. W. Beers. Map of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Smith, Gallup & Hewitt, Philadelphia, 1862. LCCN 2012592151; https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/31783; 1862 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] beers
  8. ↑ "3rd. Ward: Brookline: West Liberty Boro. Allegheny Co. Pa.: Laid out by West Liberty Improvement Co." Laid out Apr. 1906; recorded June 7, 1906, Plan Book 22, pp. 151–153. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3782417. [view source] brookline-1906-plan
  9. ↑ "An ordinance making and constituting a change in the name of certain streets and avenues in West Liberty Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania." West Liberty borough ordinance, 1907, no. 132. Enacted July 1, 1907; approved July 3, 1907. In ordinance book of West Liberty Borough, pp. 224–227, 1876–1907 (https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_c6978255-a556-45c8-b3c2-bd165fd17552/). [view source] ordinance-1907-132
  10. ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "West Liberty Borough–Pittsburgh City 1908 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/west-liberty-borough-pittsburgh-city-1908-merger/. [view source] lgeo-west-liberty-annexation
  11. ↑ "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes and alleys in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth wards of the City of Pittsburgh (formerly known as the Boroughs of West Liberty and Beechview)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1909, no. 375. Passed Oct. 14, 1909; approved Oct. 20, 1909. Ordinance Book 20, p. 614. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1909–1910, appendix, pp. 146–150, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1910 (Google Books doQzAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223832; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1909). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 11, 1909, p. 8 (Newspapers.com 86421216), and Nov. 12, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 86421491). [view source] ordinance-1909-375
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