Notes:Penn Avenue

From Pittsburgh Streets

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  • Source:Miller@23: "The street names Liberty, Union, Congress, Federal, Penn and Webster are reminiscent of the patriotic spirit of the early times."
  • The Penn Avenue Act of 1870. See "A heavy burden," Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, 1877-01-05, p. 4 (Newspapers.com 86343088) and "The Penn avenue act," Daily Post, 1877-01-05, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 88173776) for an overview. See also Source:Hays, chapter 7, "Infrastructure and city-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."