Wheeling Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Wheeling Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Hays |
| Origin of name | Wheeling, West Virginia, from the Wheeling Branch of the B&O Railroad |
Wheeling Street appears in the 1900 Hopkins atlas. It paralleled the Wheeling Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which ran through Streets Run;[1] today the rail line is the W&P Subdivision of the Allegheny Valley Railroad. Presumably this is the origin of the street name. Bob Regan includes "Wheeling" in a list of streets named for cities,[2] meaning Wheeling, West Virginia, the original terminus of the Wheeling Branch.
References
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the South-Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penna.: From official records, private plans and actual surveys, plate 17. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1900. https://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1900-map-1-plat-book-south-eastern-pittsburgh; https://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1900-map-2-plat-book-south-eastern-pittsburgh. [view source] hopkins-1900-southeast
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the city, neighborhoods, streets, parks and more got their names, p. 65. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
