Spring Way (Strip District and Lawrenceville)
From Pittsburgh Streets
Not to be confused with Spring Way (North Oakland).
| Spring Way | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Lower Lawrenceville, Strip District |
| Origin of name | Perhaps a spring of water |
| Spring Alley (until 1914) | |
| Origin of name | Perhaps a spring of water |
Spring Alley appears in William Darby's 1815 map of Pittsburgh, in the "Northern Liberties,"[1] as the lower Strip District was originally called. This map shows most of the line of the alley occupied by a wide stream or narrow pond,[1] which suggests that the name refers to a spring of water.
The alley became Spring Way in 1914 when a city ordinance changed all alleys to ways.[2]
See also
- Spring Way (North Oakland)
- Spring Alley, for other streets that have had that name
- Spring Street
- Currently duplicated street names
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wm. Darby. Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent Country. R. Patterson and W. Darby, Philadelphia, 1815. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0197, DARMAP0198. Reproduced in John W. Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States, p. 207, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1965 (LCCN 63023414); and in Bruce J. Buvinger, The Origin, Development and Persistence of Street Patterns in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, p. 24. Also reproduced as "Plan von Pittsburg und Umgebungen" in Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Heinrich Luden, ed.), Reise Sr. Hoheit des Herzogs Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826, vol. II, following p. 200, Wilhelm Hoffmann, Weimar, 1828 (Internet Archive reisesrhoheitdes00bern, reisesrhoheitdes00inbern). [view source] darby
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the name 'alley' on every thoroughfare in the City of Pittsburgh to 'way.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1914, no. 402. Passed Nov. 10, 1914; approved Nov. 16, 1914. Ordinance Book 26, p. 360. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1914, appendix, p. 226, McClung Printing Co., Pittsburgh (HathiTrust uiug.30112108223899; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1914). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 23, 1914, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 86505785), and Nov. 24, p. 12 (Newspapers.com 86505809). [view source] ordinance-1914-402
