Melbourne Street

From Pittsburgh Streets
Melbourne Street
Neighborhood Greenfield
Origin of name Probably Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne Street appears in the 1904 Hopkins atlas.[1] Bob Regan includes "Melbourne" in a list of streets named for cities.[2]

References

  1. Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 1, plate 37. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1904-volume-1-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source]hopkins-1904-vol-1
  2. Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, p. 65. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source]regan