Athens Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Athens Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | East Hills |
| Origin of name | Probably Athens, Greece |
Athens Street appears in the 1904 Hopkins atlas.[1] Today it is hardly a street at all—it is only the very northernmost tip of the street called Elm Street in Wilkinsburg, though there is a street sign for "Athens St" at the Pittsburgh city limits.
Bob Regan includes "Athens" in a list of streets named for cities, but he gives no further details.[2] The implied eponym is probably the capital of Greece (as opposed to, say, the city in Georgia or the one in Ohio).
References
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 2, plate 20. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1904-volume-2-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1904-vol-2
- ↑ 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
