26th Street

See also South 26th Street, which was named 26th Street until 1881.

26th Street
Neighborhood	Strip District
Origin of name	Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River
➤ Morris Street (until 1868)
Origin of name	Robert Morris

The seven streets from 26th Street to 32nd Street were originally named for seven of the nine Pennsylvania delegates who signed the Declaration of Independence, in the order of their signatures: 26th Street was Morris Street, for Robert Morris; 27th Street was Rush Street, for Benjamin Rush; 28th Street was Morton Street, for John Morton; 29th Street was Clymer Street, for George Clymer; 30th Street was Smith Street, for James Smith; 31st Street was Taylor Street, for George Taylor; and 32nd Street was Wilson Street, for James Wilson. (The other two Pennsylvania signers, Benjamin Franklin and George Ross, were skipped because Pittsburgh already had a Franklin Street and a Ross Street.)

Robert Morris (1734–1806) was a Founding Father of the United States who organized the funding of the American Revolution; signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U. S. Constitution; and established the nation's first de facto national bank.

In 1868, Pittsburgh's modern sequence of numbered streets was created by renaming all the streets perpendicular to the Allegheny River; Morris Street became 26th Street.

See also

• Morris Street, for other streets that have had that name