Hillsboro Street
| Hillsboro Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Sheraden |
| Tunnel Street (until ca. 1894) | |
| Portion | From Middletown Road to Chartiers Avenue |
| Origin of name | Cork Run Tunnel |
| Harwood Avenue (until 1908) | |
| Portion | From Chartiers Avenue to Bergman Street |
| Origin of name | Harmon and Wood, developers of the Sheraden Terrace plan |
| Harwood Street (ca. 1894 – 1908) | |
| Portion | From Middletown Road to Chartiers Avenue |
| Origin of name | Harmon and Wood, developers of the Sheraden Terrace plan |
This street was originally named Tunnel Street because it runs alongside and above the Cork Run Tunnel, built by the Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railroad between 1851 and 1865.
An 1862 Allegheny County map shows the railroad tunnel, but no street alongside.[1] The street is shown, unlabeled, in the 1876 Hopkins atlas; it is drawn as the southeastern edge of N. P. Sawyer's plan of Ashchenaz.[2] However, the Ashchenaz plan itself, laid out in 1869, shows that the southeastern edge of the plan (Berry Avenue, today Tyndall Street) was 380 feet from the tunnel,[3] so this appears to be an inaccuracy in the Hopkins atlas.
Tunnel Street is labeled in Andrew Patterson's 1883 plan of his addition to Sheraden, in the 1886 Hopkins atlas, and in the 1888 second addition to Sheraden.[4][5][6]
The Sheraden Terrace plan, laid out in 1891, included Harwood Avenue to the northeast of Chartiers Avenue along the course of modern Hillsboro Street and Hammond Street.[7] The name Harwood was formed from the names of the developers of this plan, Harmon and Wood. By 1896, Tunnel Street had been renamed Harwood Street.[8]
Sheraden Borough was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907.[9] Pittsburgh already had a Harwood Street in Mount Washington, so Harwood Street and a short piece of Harwood Avenue were together renamed Hillsboro Street in 1908. (The rest of Harwood Avenue became Hammond Street.)[10]
See also
- Hillsboro Way, a former alley downtown
- Tunnel Street, a former street in the Lower Hill District
References
- ↑ S. N. & F. W. Beers. Map of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Smith, Gallup & Hewitt, Philadelphia, 1862. LCCN 2012592151; https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/31783; 1862 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] beers
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, p. 45. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1876. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1876-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; included in the 1872 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1876
- ↑ "Boro of Ashchenaz plan of lots situate in Chartiers Tow'p laid out for N. P. Sawyer." Laid out June 1869; recorded Sept. 21, 1880, Plan Book 6, pp. 223–225. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3779448. [view source] ashchenaz-plan
- ↑ "Andrew Patterson's plan of addition to the village of Sheriden in Chartiers Twp 1883." Laid out 1883; recorded July 2, 1883, Plan Book 7, p. 34. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3779585. [view source] patterson-add-sheriden-plan
- ↑ Atlas of the Vicinity of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, plate 26. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1886. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1886-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; included in the 1882 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1886
- ↑ "Second addition to the plan of Sheraden: Laid out by the Sheraden Land and Improvement Co., Limited." Laid out May 1888; recorded Sept. 8, 1888, Plan Book 8, pp. 240–241. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780026. [view source] sheraden-plan-2
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penna., plates 15, 16. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1896. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1896%E2%80%93plat-book-southern-pittsburgh; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1896
- ↑ 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
