Leaside Drive

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Leaside Drive
Neighborhood Lincoln Place
Edgewood Avenue (until 1930)

This street was laid out as Edgewood Avenue in the 1917 Calhoun Park plan of lots.[1]

Lincoln Place was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1929,[2] and the following year a city ordinance changed Edgewood Avenue to Leaside Drive.[3]

References

  1. "Calhoun Park plan of lots: Situate in Mifflin Twp. All'y. Co. Pa.: Laid out by Homestead Realty Co." Laid out June 1917; recorded Aug. 22, 1917, Plan Book 27, pp. 174–175. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3783253. [view source]calhoun-park-plan-1917
  2. Mark A. Connelly. "Pittsburgh City Ordinance 58." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/pittsburgh-city-ordinance-58/. [view source]lgeo-lincoln-place-annexation
  3. "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, roads, alleys and ways in the 31st Ward of the City of Pittsburgh (formerly a portion of Mifflin Township)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1930, no. 100. Passed Mar. 24, 1930; approved Mar. 31, 1930. Ordinance Book 42, p. 388. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1930, appendix, pp. 139–141, City Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1930). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Apr. 7, 1930, p. 27 (Newspapers.com 88824970), and Apr. 8, p. 31 (Newspapers.com 88825039). [view source]ordinance-1930-100