Palm Beach Avenue
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Palm Beach Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Beechview |
| Origin of name | Palm Beach, Florida |
Palm Beach Avenue appears in the 1905 Hopkins atlas.[1] Bob Regan includes "Palm Beach" in a list of streets named for cities.[2] The naming of the street actually predates the incorporation of the Florida town in 1911, but the town had been a resort since 1894.[3]
References
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 16. 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Palm Beach." Encyclopædia Britannica, June 20, 2013. https://www.britannica.com/place/Palm-Beach-Florida. [view source] britannica-palm-beach
