Notes:Clay Way

1836-11-04: Source:Administrators-sale mentions Clay Alley.

1852: Source:Mcgowin-1852: "Clay Alley"

1873-12-30: Source:Street-nomenclature: "Clay alley, Chatham to Washington street, Coke alley."

1874-01-05: Source:Ordinances-relative-to-street-improvements: "Clay alley, Chatham to Washington street, Coke alley."

1910: Source:Hopkins-1910: Majority of Clay Alley in plan labeled "Watson Est. (not recorded)"; western end in plan labeled "C. Magee"

1917-03-04: Source:Fleming-patriots: "We come now to the consideration of another class of names commemorated in Pittsburgh—great statesmen, orators, public men, men of great minds, great acts and great fame. Under this head we may mention Webster, Clay, . . . . ¶ Far From What Should Be. ¶ Excepting Judges Addison's and Wikins' [sic], none of these have local fame. All are national. Their names then here have been applied to the uses made solely through the desire to honor the men. Some of the applications are so far from what they should be when the commemorated one is considered that one can only wonder at the poor taste shown. ¶ For instance we have Clay way and Calhoun way—both alleys—the former an old name and figuring in print now mainly in police records. Many states have Clay counties and some cities Clay street. Pittsburgh has Clay way, which is not to be confounded with a muddy road. The way is paved and a block long."

1922-03-26: Source:Fleming-old-ninth mentions Clay Alley, in a list of streets and alleys named by Mrs. E. A. Gammons.

1960-05-05: Source:Ordinance-1960-159 vacated Clay Way.