Oakglen Street

From Pittsburgh Streets
Oakglen Street
Neighborhood Crafton Heights
Grant Avenue (until 1922)
Origin of name Ulysses S. Grant

This street was laid out as Grant Avenue in 1902 in the Ideal Plan No. 1.[1][2] The parallel streets in the plan were Garfield Avenue (today part of Berry Street), Taylor Avenue (today Straka Street), and Jackson Avenue (today Justine Street), all named for presidents; Grant Avenue was named for Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), 18th President of the United States (1869–1877).

Chartiers Township, including the modern Crafton Heights neighborhood, was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1921.[3] Pittsburgh already had a Grant Street downtown, so in 1922 Grant Avenue was renamed Oakglen Street.[4]

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References

  1. "The Pittsburg Realty Co's. Ideal Plan № 1: Chartiers Twp. Allegheny Co. Pa." Laid out Jan. 1902; recorded Apr. 29, 1902, Plan Book 19, pp. 126–127. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3781850. [view source]ideal-plan
  2. Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 21. 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. Mark A. Connelly. "Chartiers Township–Pittsburgh City 1921 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/chartiers-township-pittsburgh-city-1921-merger/. [view source]lgeo-chartiers-annexation
  4. "An ordinance changing the names of various streets, avenues, lanes, roads, alleys and ways in the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth Wards (formerly Chartiers Township)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1922, no. 336. Passed Oct. 2, 1922; approved Oct. 3, 1922. Ordinance Book 33, p. 604. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1922, appendix, pp. 238–244, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Google Books -UEtAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223972; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1922). [view source]ordinance-1922-336