Jacks Run Road
| Jacks Run Road | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Perry North |
| Origin of name | Jacks Run, named for Andrew Jack |
A road in the location of modern Jacks Run Road appears in the 1862 map of Allegheny County by S. N. and F. W. Beers.[1] An earlier map, from 1851, shows a slightly different layout of roads in the area.[2] The name Jacks Run Road was in use by 1890.[3]
The road is named for Jacks Run, the stream along which it runs. This name was given to the stream no later than 1837,[4] and is so labeled in E. H. Heastings' 1850 map of Allegheny County.[5] Many streams in the Pittsburgh region are called "runs." This sense of the word has a long history in English. The early European settlers of western Pennsylvania used the word for a creek or stream, and this became the established term.[6]
Jacks Run is named for Andrew Jack,[7][8][9] one of the original settlers of Bellevue.[8][10] Jack was the proprietor of a ferry, a tavern, and a mill at the mouth of the run,[8][10] and he was the pilot of the New Orleans, the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States, on her maiden voyage in 1811–1812.[7]
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
- ↑ Sidney & Neff and S. McRea. Map of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, with the Names of Property-Holders. Philadelphia, 1851. LCCN 2012592150. [view source] sidney-neff
- ↑ "Scarcity of lumber: Rig work in the Westview oil field retarded: Lumber men advancing the prices; map of the field showing located wells." Pittsburg Press, Mar. 8, 1890, p. 1. Newspapers.com 141337323. [view source] scarcity-of-lumber
- ↑ "50 acres of good land for sale." Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, Mar. 27, 1837, [p. 2]. Newspapers.com 96048464. [view source] 50-acres
- ↑ E. H. Heastings. Map of the County of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. 1850. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0090. [view source] heastings
- ↑ Katie Blackley. "Why are there so many 'run roads' in the Pittsburgh region?" 90.5 WESA, June 21, 2019. https://www.wesa.fm/post/why-are-there-so-many-run-roads-pittsburgh-region. [view source] blackley-why
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: Including Its Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time; a Description of Its Historic and Interesting Localities; Its Cities, Towns and Villages; Religious, Educational, Social and Military History; Mining, Manufacturing and Commercial Interests; Improvements, Resources, Statistics, Etc.: Also Portraits of Some of Its Prominent Men, and Biographies of Many of Its Representative Citizens, part II, p. 386. A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889. Google Books DwzYAAAAMAAJ; Internet Archive historyofalleghe1889cush. [view source] history-of-allegheny-county
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Edward C. Sykes. "Bellevue will celebrate her 35th anniversary: How the pretty suburb was built: Bellevue has grown from a wilderness to one of the choicest residence spots in the county—the thirty-fifth birthday of the borough will be fittingly celebrated by the citizens—early history of the town." Pittsburgh Gazette, Aug. 31, 1902, sec. 6, p. 6. Newspapers.com 86204111. [view source] bellevue-35th
- ↑ Joe Bennett. "What do you call a river?: When the Indians saw the sluggish stream's banks crumbling, they had a name for it." Pittsburgh Press, July 30, 1978, Pittsburgh's Family Magazine, p. 3. Newspapers.com 146982756. [view source] bennett-river
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 History of Pittsburgh and Environs, vol. 3, p. 763. American Historical Society, New York and Chicago, 1922. Google Books k_kMAAAAYAAJ, QMtaAAAAYAAJ; HathiTrust 011262563; Internet Archive historyofpittsbu03flem. [view source] history-pgh-environs-3
