Seneca Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Seneca Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Bluff |
| Origin of name | Seneca people |
Seneca Street is named for the Seneca people.[1][2][3][4] The Senecas, a member of the Iroquois Six Nations, are from upper New York state. Their name in English was formerly written as Sinnekens, Senakees, etc., and originally referred to the Oneida, a different Iroquois people. An unproven hypothesis is that the name comes from a Mohican word meaning "people of the place of the stone."[5]
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ George Thornton Fleming. History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From prehistoric days to the beginning of the American Revolution, vol. 1, p. 148. 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Joe Browne. "Streets are index of local history." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 28, 1983, p. 37. Newspapers.com 89790718. [view source] browne-streets
- ↑ William Bright. Native American Placenames of the United States, p. 431. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. [view source] bright
