Notes:Puckety Road
See also Notes:Lincoln Avenue.
1837-11-27: Source:Stray-cow-yourd mentions "Puckety road."
1869-05-10: Source:New-streets: "The Puckety Road. ¶ The Puckety road was next visited. It was decided to take out several ugly angles and to make it from thirty-three feet to a fifty foot avenue. Its extension was also decided upon through to the Allegheny river, but that will hardly take place for many years."
1869-05-10: Source:New-streets-and-avenues: "The Puckety road, which is now thirty-three feet wide, will be converted into an avenue with a width of fifty feet, and will be extended to the Allegheny river."
1869-06-28, Common Council (Source:Municipal-record-1869, p. 65): "Report of Survey Committee. ¶ Mr. CHISLETT, Chairman of the Survey Committee, presented ordinances and plans for the opening of Bates and Atwood street; Forty-third street, from Bulter [sic] to Davidson [sic] street; and Main street. Also, for opening Puckety road, and changing the name thereof to Lincoln street. ¶ The plans were approved, and the ordinances read three times and passed."
1869-06-28: Source:Ordinance-1869-puckety: "An ordinance authorizing the opening the [sic] Puckety Road, from the Frankstown Road to Spring street, and changing the name to Lincoln avenue."
1879-04-01: Source:Ordinance-1878-1879-78 vacated Puckety Road from Fifth Avenue Extension to a point 900 feet east; it had been made useless by the opening of Lincoln Avenue.
1882-02: Source:Lake-home-plan laid out a "20′ Alley" on the location of old Puckety Road.
1886-01-11: Source:Dedication-1885-1886-146: Named Charley Alley.
1910: Source:Ordinance-1909-1910-716: "Puckety rd. from Lyric to Upland, 12th wd."
1922: Source:Ordinance-1922-333: "Puckety road, from Lyric street to Upland street, Twelfth Ward, be changed to Laxton street."
1966?: Source:Stringtown, pp. 100–101: "Charles Ross, pioneer East Ender in 1928, prepared some interesting items regarding the history of the area. He said that in 1848 three main roads led off from the Greensburg pike into the countryside: first, the River Road following Collins Avenue to the Allegheny River and thense [sic] east (The Allegheny Valley R. R. took over the right-of-way in 1856); second, Frankstown Road which was built by General Anthony Wayne on his way west to Fort Wayne, Indiana; and third, Puckety Road which ran from the Pike along the present Lincoln Avenue, Verona Road, Hulton and Hilltown [sic] Roads and the north side of the railroad and thence over Coxcomb Hills down to Logan's Ferry. ¶ The part of Puckety Road inside the city (now Lincoln Avenue from Frankstown to Shetland), the Puckety Road to Lincoln Avenue near Apple Street in 1872 was changed [p. 101] to Lincoln Avenue and improved. It passed 14 farms and there were 42 property owners from Frankstown Avenue to the City Line. The commissioners elected to handle the matter were George Finley, Samuel Rafferty, A. K. Henderson, Isaac G. McMinn and Samuel B. Ross. In 1876, it became a very popular road over which farmers brought produce into East Liberty from as far away as the Kiskiminetas River. The pavement was of wood block on a stone foundation. It served until 1893 when torn up for street car tracks."
A segment of Verona Boulevard was also part of Puckety Road, and maybe Tripod Way was too.
