Notes:Osceola Street

Source:Ordinance-1881-33: "Osceola street, from Liberty avenue to Cypress street, formerly Olive street, Twentieth ward."

Source:Mckean (1904-04-28): "Indian Street Names. ¶ An examination of the Pittsburg and Allegheny street directory shows upwards of 30 streets the names of which have been taken from the Indians. Most of these are streets in the older portion of the cities, which have been laid out many years. The newer streets have more modern names and Indian lore is seldom drawn on for names. Some of the more common Indian names used are Sachem, Seneca, Shawnee, Alliquippa, Winnebago, Wichita, Tecumseh, Tuscarora, Wampum, Manhattan, Miami, Modoc, Pocussett, Powhattan, Penobscot, Pawnee, Natchez, Niagara, Osceola, Oneida, Osage, Manitoba, Juniata, Kanawha, Eutaw, Blackhawk, Cherokee, Ossipee, Cohassett, Conewago, Dakota, Conestoga, etc."

Source:Fleming-indian-names (1915-04-04): "Names that once caused terror have been perpetuated in our city. ¶ Notable instances are Shingiss, Pontiac and Osceola, the latter without local significance and wholly from the standpoint of euphony. The name charms from its richness of vowel sounds. ¶ . . . ¶ At any rate we have many undoubted Indian names in our geography, general, state and local. We have them in our street nomenclature and destined to remain. A hasty run over the extensive list of Pittsburgh streets reveals the following names: ¶ Allequippa, Shingiss, Kilbuck, Pontiac, Delaware, Tuscarora, Seneca, Oneida, Tioga, Susquehanna, Pawnee, Osceola, Sandusky, Mingo, Mohawk, Modoc, Ottawa, Wyandot, Shawnee, Miami and Tecumseh."

Source:Fleming-patriots (1917-03-04): "We have many names of Indian chiefs and Indian tribes. Tecumseh, Osceola, Mohawk, Seneca and others. These, too, have been written of."

Source:Fleming-history (1922), p. 148: "Names that once caused terror have been perpetuated in our city. Notable instances are Shingiss, Chartiers, Pontiac and Osceola, the latter without local significance and wholly from the standpoint of euphony. The name charms from its richness of vowel sounds. . . . ¶ In the list of street names, instances of individual commemoration may be cited in Aliquippa, Hiawatha, Kilbuck, Osceola, Pontiac, Shingiss and Tecumseh—of these, three only, concerned in our local history."

Source:Frey (1955), p. 182: "INDIAN NAMES OF PITTSBURGH STREETS ¶ . . . ¶ Osceola: A noted Seminole leader."