Monongahela Street
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| Monongahela Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Hazelwood |
| Origin of name | Monongahela River |
Monongahela Street is named for the Monongahela River. The name Monongahela comes from the Unami language, one of the native Lenape (Delaware) languages.[1][2] Translations include "the one that flows with banks that continually cave off,"[1] "high banks or bluffs, falling in at many places,"[3] "high banks breaking off in some places and tumbling down,"[4] and "high banks breaking off and falling down in places."[2]
See also the Boulevard of the Allies, which was originally to be named Monongahela Boulevard.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Bright. Native American Placenames of the United States, p. 296. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. [view source] bright
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Squirrel Hill Historical Society. Helen Wilson, ed. Squirrel Hill: A neighborhood history, p. 30. History Press, Charleston, S. C., 2017, ISBN 978-1-4671-3625-9. LCCN 2016961484. [view source] wilson-helen
- ↑ Annie Clark Miller. Early Land Marks and Names of Old Pittsburgh: An address delivered before the Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution at Carnegie Institute, Nov. 30, 1923, p. 6. Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924. Historic Pittsburgh 00awn8211m; Internet Archive earlylandmarksna00mill. [view source] miller
- ↑ "Street names sketch history of city: Tribute to many pioneers dimmed by time." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 26, 1936, anniversary section IV, p. 16. Newspapers.com 88921069. [view source] street-names
