Notes:Grant Street

1879-01-14: Source:Worlds-questions: "The battle the World refers to was fought about where the Allegheny county Court House now stands, on Grant street, Grant Hill, so named after the British Major. It is a great wonder the name has been spared, and that our wise councilmen have not renamed the street 111th or something of that sort. The Damphools of that body of worthies, erased from the city map a score or two of historic names of streets, a few years ago, (Marbury, Pitt, Hay, St. Clair, Wayne, Irwin, etc.) and rechristened the streets by numbers."

Source:Frey, p. 31: "Col. Woods gave names to the streets close to the Monongahela as familiar to-day as when he christened them; Grant Street was named after Major James Grant, Smithfield for Devereux Smith and Wood for the surveyor himself."

1988-08-28: Rich Gigler, "Historic loser: If you thought Grant Street named for U. S. hero, think again," Pittsburgh Press, p. A2 (Newspapers.com 145736178)