Highland Avenue

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Not to be confused with Highland Drive.
Highland Avenue
Neighborhoods East Liberty, Highland Park, Shadyside
Origin of name James Hiland

Highland Avenue is named for James Hiland, the land surveyor of Allegheny County, who surveyed the Negley estate (see Negley Avenue) and divided it into eight equal shares for the heirs. Highland Avenue went through the main part of the property. The name was originally Hiland Road, then Hiland Avenue. The spelling Highland was apparently used by the Street Railways Company when it painted new routes on its cars. This spelling was made official by a city ordinance in 1890.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Highland Avenue was officially divided into two streets, North Highland Avenue and South Highland Avenue, on either side of Penn Avenue, by a city ordinance in 1915.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Margaret Carlin. "How our streets got their names." Pittsburgh Press, Feb. 6, 1966, Pittsburgh's Family Magazine, p. 10. Newspapers.com 149098376. [view source] carlin
  2. ↑ Gilbert Love. "What's in a name? A lot!: Titles of city streets recall persons famed in U. S. history: From Golden Triangle eastward, thoroughfares list great and near great of colonial and revolutionary days." Pittsburgh Press, Feb. 12, 1944, p. 9. Newspapers.com 147946752. [view source] love-titles
  3. ↑ Annie Clark Miller. Early Land Marks and Names of Old Pittsburgh: An Address Delivered Before the Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution at Carnegie Institute, Nov. 30, 1923, pp. 33, 39. Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924. Historic Pittsburgh 00awn8211m; Internet Archive earlylandmarksna00mill. [view source] miller
  4. ↑ "An ordinance changing the name of Hiland avenue to 'Highland avenue.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1890, no. 228. Passed Jan. 27, 1890; approved Feb. 3, 1890. Ordinance Book 7, p. 255. Reprinted in the Pittsburg Dispatch, Feb. 15, 1890, p. 10 (Newspapers.com 76218074), and Feb. 18, p. 8 (Newspapers.com 78188564). [view source] ordinance-1890-228
  5. ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, p. 69. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
  6. ↑ "Street names sketch history of city: Tribute to many pioneers dimmed by time." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 26, 1936, anniversary section IV, p. 16. Newspapers.com 88921069. [view source] street-names
  7. ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets and ways in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1915, no. 117. Passed Apr. 28, 1915; approved Apr. 29, 1915. Ordinance Book 26, p. 615. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1915, appendix, pp. 99–103, Arlington Printing Co., Pittsburgh, 1915 (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1915). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, May 7, 1915, sporting section, p. 4 (Newspapers.com 88028157), May 8, p. 15 (Newspapers.com 88028802), and May 10, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 88030672). [view source] ordinance-1915-117
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