Notes:Lincoln Avenue

See also Notes:Puckety Road.

1869-05-10: Source:New-streets: "The Puckety Road. ¶ The Puckety road was next visited. It was decided to take out several ugly angles and to make it from thirty-three feet to a fifty foot avenue. Its extension was also decided upon through to the Allegheny river, but that will hardly take place for many years."

1869-05-10: Source:New-streets-and-avenues: "The Puckety road, which is now thirty-three feet wide, will be converted into an avenue with a width of fifty feet, and will be extended to the Allegheny river."

1869-06-28, Common Council (Source:Municipal-record-1869, p. 65): "Report of Survey Committee. ¶ Mr. CHISLETT, Chairman of the Survey Committee, presented ordinances and plans for the opening of Bates and Atwood street; Forty-third street, from Bulter [sic] to Davidson [sic] street; and Main street. Also, for opening Puckety road, and changing the name thereof to Lincoln street. ¶ The plans were approved, and the ordinances read three times and passed."

1869-06-28: Source:Ordinance-1869-puckety: "An ordinance authorizing the opening the [sic] Puckety Road, from the Frankstown Road to Spring street, and changing the name to Lincoln avenue."

1874-05-08: "Lincoln avenue improvement," Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, [p. 4] (Newspapers.com 86347659): "We were informed that work commenced on the Lincoln avenue improvement on May 6th by Mr. Haynes, the contractor, for the abutment of the Silver Lake Bridge."

1874-05-08: "The improvement of Lincoln avenue," Pittsburgh Commercial, [p. 4] (Newspapers.com 85479511)

1876-11-04: "Streets and roads," Daily Gazette, [p. 4] (Newspapers.com 85585038): "The following ordinances were affirmatively recommended to Councils: . . . to assess the cost of a bridge over Negley's Run, on the line of Lincoln avenue, . . . ."

• Also Newspapers.com 85537936.

1966?: Source:Stringtown, pp. 100–101: "The part of Puckety Road inside the city (now Lincoln Avenue from Frankstown to Shetland), the Puckety Road to Lincoln Avenue near Apple Street in 1872 was changed [p. 101] to Lincoln Avenue and improved. It passed 14 farms and there were 42 property owners from Frankstown Avenue to the City Line. The commissioners elected to handle the matter were George Finley, Samuel Rafferty, A. K. Henderson, Isaac G. McMinn and Samuel B. Ross. In 1876, it became a very popular road over which farmers brought produce into East Liberty from as far away as the Kiskiminetas River. The pavement was of wood block on a stone foundation. It served until 1893 when torn up for street car tracks."

2015: Source:Wilson-wilson, p. 93: Today's stone-arch Lincoln Avenue Bridge was completed in 1905.