Lunar Way

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Lunar Way
Neighborhood Carrick
Cherry Alley (until ca. 1910)

This alley appears as Cherry Alley in the 1905 Hopkins atlas.[1] In the 1916 edition it is labeled Lunar Way.[2]

Bob Regan includes "Lunar" in a list of astronomy-related street names.[3]

See also

References

  1. Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 4. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1905. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1905-plat-book-southern-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source]hopkins-1905
  2. Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 6, plate 24. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1916, revised 1922 and 1928. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1916-volume-6-plat-book-pittsburgh-south-side-southern; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source]hopkins-1916-vol-6
  3. Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the city, neighborhoods, streets, parks and more got their names, p. 68. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source]regan