Hammond Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Hammond Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Sheraden |
| Harwood Avenue (until 1908) | |
| Origin of name | Harmon and Wood, developers of the Sheraden Terrace and Melrose plans |
This street was laid out as Harwood Avenue in 1891 in the Sheraden Terrace plan[1] and was extended in the Melrose plan two years later.[2] The name was formed from the names of the developers of these plans, Harmon and Wood.
Sheraden Borough was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907.[3] Pittsburgh already had a Harwood Street in Mount Washington, so most of Harwood Avenue was renamed Hammond Street in 1908. (The rest of Harwood Avenue became the northeasternmost part of Hillsboro Street.)[4]
References
- ↑ "Wood, Harmon & Co's plan of Sheraden Terrace, Chartiers Twp." Laid out Apr. 1891; recorded May 16, 1891, Plan Book 11, pp. 134–135. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780557. [view source] sheraden-terrace-plan
- ↑ "Plan of Melrose: Chartiers Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.: By Wood, Harmon & Co." Laid out Apr. 1893; recorded May 13, 1893, Plan Book 13, pp. 196–199. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780926. [view source] melrose-plan
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Sheraden Borough–Pittsburgh City 1907 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/sheraden-borough-pittsburgh-city-1907-merger/. [view source] lgeo-sheraden-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of avenues, streets and alleys in the Forty-third ward (formerly the Borough of Sheraden) of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1907–1909, no. 393. Passed July 9, 1908; approved July 13, 1908. Ordinance Book 19, p. 496. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1907–'08–'09, appendix, pp. 210–214, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1909 (Google Books gMBEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598897; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecordselect1907, Pghmunicipalrecordcommon1907). [view source] ordinance-1907-1909-393
