Reflectorville Road
| Reflectorville Road | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Carrick |
| Origin of name | Community of Reflectorville, named for the Bailey Reflector Company |
| Warrington Avenue (until 1933) | |
| Origin of name | Modification of Washington |
A short stub at the eastern end of Edgebrook Avenue is all that remains of Reflectorville Road. It was once part of Warrington Avenue, but was renamed Reflectorville Road in 1933.[1] The 1953 map of Alexander Gross shows Reflectorville Road running on the east side of Saw Mill Run Boulevard from Goff Street on the south to its intersection with Saw Mill Run Boulevard at Bausman Street on the north.[2]
Reflectorville was a community laid out in what is now the eastern part of the neighborhood of Brookline around 1890. Much of the community was developed by Thomas Flanner Bailey and David G. Moon, the president and treasurer, respectively, of the Bailey Reflector Company in Pittsburgh, which manufactured silvered lighting fixtures.[3] Reflectorville was the location of a shop where carbide locomotive headlights were cleaned and repaired.[4][3]
References
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, roads and ways in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1933, no. 121. Passed May 29, 1933; approved May 31, 1933. Ordinance Book 45, p. 241. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1933, appendix, p. 72, City Printing Co., Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1933). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, June 3, 1933, p. 13 (Newspapers.com 523406708); and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 5, 1933, p. 25 (Newspapers.com 89887815), and June 6, p. 23 (Newspapers.com 89888832). [view source] ordinance-1933-121
- ↑ Alexander Gross. Pittsburgh and Vicinity: Featuring transit lines and house numbers. Geographia Map Co. Inc., New York, 1953. Published with Alexander Gross, The Complete Street Guide to Pittsburgh and 16 Nearby Suburbs: With large map of Pittsburgh and suburbs; streets, house numbers, transportation lines, places of interest, churches, etc., etc., Geographia Map Co. Inc., New York, 1953 (DonsList.net PghStreets1953M). A slightly different version entitled The Premier Map of Pittsburgh and Vicinity is reproduced in Sam Stephenson, ed., Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, pp. 22–23, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2023, ISBN 978-0-226-82483-3 (LCCN 2022055151). [view source] gross-map
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Clint Burton. "The town of Reflectorville (1890–1920)." Brookline Connection. https://brooklineconnection.com/history/Locations/Reflectorville.html. [view source] brookline-connection-reflectorville
- ↑ Gilbert Love. "Old Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh Press, May 13, 1966, p. 17. Newspapers.com 149438943. [view source] love-old-pittsburgh
