Notes:Squirrel Hill Avenue
From Pittsburgh Streets
1902-03-11
- Source:Ordinance-1901-1902-553 located Squirrel Hill Avenue from Northumberland Avenue to Wilkins Street.
- Source:Ordinance-1901-1902-554 established its grade.
1904-06-18: Source:Ordinance-1904-1905-128 repealed the 1902 locating ordinance insofar as it related to the portion of Squirrel Hill Avenue between Beeler Street and Wilkins Avenue.
1983-09-28: Source:Browne-streets: "Squirrel Hill Avenue got its name from all the squirrels that used to run around there."
2017: Source:Wilson-helen, p. 28: "Local lore has it that before European settlers arrived in the mid-1700s, Native Americans used Squirrel Hill as a hunting ground and named it for the hordes of squirrels frisking about. The settlers found the squirrels a nuisance, getting into grain stores and damaging crops. However, breaded and fried, they made good eating."
