Tuscarora Street
| Tuscarora Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Point Breeze |
| Origin of name | Tuscarora people |
Tuscarora Street is named for the Tuscarora people, a member of the Iroquois Six Nations, who once lived in North Carolina and later migrated to upper New York state.[1][2][3] Their name in English comes from the Catawba word taskarúde:, meaning "dry salt eater," which in turn comes (as a folk etymology) from the Tuscarora's own name for themselves, Skarù:ręʔ, meaning "hemp-gatherer."[4]
Tuscarora is the name of several places in central Pennsylvania, including Tuscarora Mountain, Tuscarora Creek, and Tuscarora Township in Juniata County; these are also named after the tribe.[1]
Tuscarora Street was originally planned to be a continuous street from Hastings Street to the city line at Peebles Street,[5] but only the easternmost section was ever built. Later Card Lane was built on a portion of the same line. Juniata Place is Tuscarora's sister street; it was planned to run parallel to Tuscarora Street all the way to Peebles Street, but only three segments were built (today's Juniata Place, Sleeth Place, and Brashear Street).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 George Thornton Fleming. History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From Prehistoric Days to the Beginning of the American Revolution, vol. 1, p. 70. American Historical Society, New York and Chicago, 1922. Google Books 7ctaAAAAYAAJ, ffQMAAAAYAAJ, S88wAQAAMAAJ, tzUafgt-eskC; HathiTrust 011262563; Historic Pittsburgh 01aee9405m; Internet Archive historypittsbur01compgoog, historypittsbur01socigoog, historypittsbur01yorkgoog. [view source] fleming-history
- ↑ George T. Fleming. "History recalled by street names: Stanwix brings to mind many important happenings in the early days of the Western Pennsylvania settlement." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Dec. 6, 1914, sec. 2, p. 8. Newspapers.com 85907599. [view source] fleming-history-recalled
- ↑ 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, p. 8. Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924. Historic Pittsburgh 00awn8211m; Internet Archive earlylandmarksna00mill. [view source] miller
- ↑ William Bright. Native American Placenames of the United States, pp. 523–524. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. [view source] bright
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 1. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1904-volume-1-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1904-vol-1
