Fisk Street
| Fisk Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Bloomfield, Central Lawrenceville |
| Origin of name | Alba Fisk |
| 41st Street (1868) | |
| Origin of name | Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River |
| Shaw Street (1872–1873) | |
Fisk Street is named for Alba Fisk.[1][2] Fisk came to Pittsburgh from Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1818, and became the first master armorer at the Allegheny Arsenal.[1]
Fisk Street has twice been renamed by city ordinance, only to be quickly changed back to Fisk.
In 1868, Pittsburgh's modern sequence of numbered streets was created by renaming all the streets perpendicular to the Allegheny River. The original renaming ordinance included Fisk Street among the streets to be renamed; it was to have become 41st Street.[3][4] But this appears to have been a mistake. Less than a month later, City Councils passed a supplementary ordinance that repealed all of the name changes east of 40th Street and redid the numbering with Fisk Street omitted.[5] This produced the street numbers that we have today.
Four years later, in 1872, Fisk Street was renamed Shaw Street,[6] but five and a half months later, this change was also reverted.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "An old home and its story: The red brick house was built during the presidency of Andrew Jackson: A Lawrenceville landmark: Suggesting recollections dear to many old Pittsburgers: Locust Grove seminary's pride." Pittsburg Post, Sept. 1, 1895, p. 3. Newspapers.com 86384622. [view source] an-old-home
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Sarah H. Killikelly. The History of Pittsburgh: Its Rise and Progress. B. C. & Gordon Montgomery Co., Pittsburgh, 1906. DonsList.net HistPgh1909M; Google Books kXmloex-vr8C, poRU0YjqrzsC; HathiTrust 100122020; Historic Pittsburgh 00adc8925m; Internet Archive historyofpittsbu00kill, historypittsbur00killgoog. [view source] killikelly
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of streets." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1868. Passed Aug. 31, 1868. In The Municipal Record: Containing the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh: 1868, Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1868_20200904_2014). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Gazette, Sept. 2, 1868, p. 5 (Newspapers.com 86347563), Sept. 3, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 86347623), and Sept. 4, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 86347714). [view source] ordinance-1868-name-changes
- ↑ "An ordinance supplementary to an ordinance changing the names of streets." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1868. Passed Sept. 28, 1868. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Gazette, Oct. 1, 1868, p. 7 (Newspapers.com 86349783), and Oct. 2, p. 7 (Newspapers.com 86349850). [view source] ordinance-1868-name-changes-supplement
- ↑ "An ordinance authorizing the changing of the name of Fisk street to Shaw street." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1872, no. 152. Passed Sept. 30, 1872. Ordinance Book 3, p. 267. In The Municipal Record: Containing the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, Together with the Ordinances, &c.: With an Index, vol. IV, p. 104, Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, Pittsburgh, 1872 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1872). [view source] ordinance-1872-152
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the name of Shaw street to Fisk street." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1873, no. 37. Passed Apr. 14, 1873. Ordinance Book 3, p. 342. In The Municipal Record: Containing the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, Together with the Ordinances, &c.: With an Index, vol. V, p. 49, Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, Pittsburgh, 1873 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1872). [view source] ordinance-1873-37
