Spring Way
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Spring Way | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Lower Lawrenceville, Strip District |
| Origin of name | Perhaps a spring of water |
| Spring Alley (until 1914) | |
| Origin of name | Perhaps a spring of water |
Spring Alley appears in William Darby's 1815 map of Pittsburgh, in the "Northern Liberties,"[1] as the lower Strip District was originally called. This map shows most of the line of the alley occupied by a wide stream or narrow pond,[1] which suggests that the name refers to a spring of water.
The alley became Spring Way in 1914 when a city ordinance changed all alleys to ways.[2]
See also
- Spring Alley, for other streets that have had that name
- Spring Street
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wm. Darby. Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent Country. R. Patterson and W. Darby, Philadelphia, 1815. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0197, DARMAP0198. Reproduced in John W. Reps, The Making of Urban America: A history of city planning in the United States, p. 207, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1965 (LCCN 63023414); and in Bruce J. Buvinger, The Origin, Development and Persistence of Street Patterns in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, p. 24. Also reproduced as "Plan von Pittsburg und Umgebungen" in Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Heinrich Luden, ed.), Reise Sr. Hoheit des Herzogs Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826, vol. II, following p. 200, Wilhelm Hoffmann, Weimar, 1828 (Internet Archive reisesrhoheitdes00bern, reisesrhoheitdes00inbern). [view source] darby
- ↑ "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. 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
