Brownsville Road
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Brownsville Road | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Carrick, Knoxville |
| Origin of name | Brownsville, Pennsylvania |
Brownsville Road was a branch of the National Road,[1][2] which opened from Cumberland, Maryland, through Brownsville and Washington, Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1818.[3] Brownsville Road split off from the main road at Brownsville, from which the road gets its name; from Pittsburgh it was the principal route to Brownsville.[4][1][2][5] The old Brownsville Road followed the route of modern Arlington Avenue to the Monongahela River.[1][2]
See also
- South 18th Street, part of which was once the Brownsville Plank Road
- Wenzell Avenue, labeled "Brownsville Road" (perhaps mistakenly) in the 1905 and 1910 Hopkins atlases
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Allentown Civic Association. Robert N. Kress, ed. Allentown: The story of a Pittsburgh neighborhood, p. 27. Allentown Civic Association, Pittsburgh, 1990, ISBN 978-1-105-70647-9. LCCN 2012460322. [view source] allentown
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jean M. Goldstrom, ed. Knoxville Borough; a History: The story of a Pittsburgh community, 3rd ed., p. 25. Whortleberry Press, Pittsburgh, 2009. [view source] goldstrom
- ↑ ASCE Pittsburgh Section 100th Anniversary Publication Committee. Engineering Pittsburgh: A history of roads, rails, canals, bridges & more, p. 73. History Press, Charleston, S. C., 2018, ISBN 978-1-5402-3599-2. LCCN 2018942435. [view source] engineering
- ↑ C. A. Weslager. "Reminiscences of Beltzhoover and Allentown: Two old-time Western Pennsylvania boroughs." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, vol. 49, no. 3, July 1966, pp. 251–262. https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/2808. [view source] weslager
- ↑ Franklin Toker. Pittsburgh: A new portrait, p. 187. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8229-4371-6. LCCN 2009022903. [view source] toker-new
