Eboda Way

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Eboda Way
Neighborhood Sheraden
Olive Alley (until 1914)
Portion Northwest of about Daykin Street
A Alley (until 1908)
Portion Southeast of about Daykin Street
Origin of name Sequential lettering of alleys in the Sheraden Terrace plan
Eboda Alley (1908–1914)

This alley was first laid out as Olive Alley in 1890 in part D of the plan of John A. Wood & Son.[1]

It was extended southeastward as A Alley in the 1891 Sheraden Terrace plan, which lettered its parallel alleys from A to G,[2] and further in the 1893 Melrose plan, which did not name its alleys.[3]

When Sheraden Borough was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907,[4] city officials apparently believed that the alleys in the Sheraden Terrace and Melrose plans were unnamed, so the corresponding portion of the alley was named Eboda Alley the following year.[5]

Olive Alley was made part of Eboda Alley in 1914.[6] Later that year, Eboda Alley became Eboda Way, when a city ordinance changed all alleys in Pittsburgh to ways.[7]

See also

  • A Alley, for other alleys that have had that name

References

  1. "John A. Wood & Son's plan of Part D, Esplen plan of lots, Chartiers Twp." Laid out Sept. 1890; recorded Feb. 9, 1891, Plan Book 11, pp. 100–101. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780501. [view source]john-a-wood-son-plan-d
  2. "Wood, Harmon & Co's plan of Sheraden Terrace, Chartiers Twp." Laid out Apr. 1891; recorded May 16, 1891, Plan Book 11, pp. 134–135. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780557. [view source]sheraden-terrace-plan
  3. "Plan of Melrose: Chartiers Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.: By Wood, Harmon & Co." Laid out Apr. 1893; recorded May 13, 1893, Plan Book 13, pp. 196–199. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780926. [view source]melrose-plan
  4. Mark A. Connelly. "Sheraden Borough–Pittsburgh City 1907 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/sheraden-borough-pittsburgh-city-1907-merger/. [view source]lgeo-sheraden-annexation
  5. "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of avenues, streets and alleys in the Forty-third ward (formerly the Borough of Sheraden) of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1907–1909, no. 393. Passed July 9, 1908; approved July 13, 1908. Ordinance Book 19, p. 496. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1907–'08–'09, appendix, pp. 210–214, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1909 (Google Books gMBEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598897; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecordselect1907, Pghmunicipalrecordcommon1907). [view source]ordinance-1907-1909-393
  6. "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets and alleys in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1914, no. 77. Passed Mar. 10, 1914; approved Mar. 14, 1914. Ordinance Book 26, p. 13. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1914, appendix, pp. 65–66, McClung Printing Co., Pittsburgh (HathiTrust uiug.30112108223899; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1914). [view source]ordinance-1914-77
  7. "An ordinance changing the name 'alley' on every thoroughfare in the City of Pittsburgh to 'way.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1914, no. 402. Passed Nov. 10, 1914; approved Nov. 16, 1914. Ordinance Book 26, p. 360. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1914, appendix, p. 226, McClung Printing Co., Pittsburgh (HathiTrust uiug.30112108223899; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1914). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 23, 1914, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 86505785), and Nov. 24, p. 12 (Newspapers.com 86505809). [view source]ordinance-1914-402