Valentine Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Valentine Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Troy Hill |
| Origin of name | Valentine Gast |
Valentine Street was laid out in 1891 by the heirs of John Gast, who had owned the land through which the street runs.[1][2] The street is named for Valentine Gast (ca. 1841 – 1894), the eldest son of John Gast. Valentine was a brewer and an alderman representing the Thirteenth Ward of Allegheny. He never married and lived with his sister on the Gast homestead.[3][4][5]
Bob Regan includes "Valentine" in his "Streets of Pittsburgh" crossword puzzle, clued as "A special card sent on February 14th."[6] Unfortunately this is just a dictionary definition of the word valentine and gives no information about the origins of the street name.
References
- ↑ "Plan of lots situate in the 13th. ward, City of Allegheny laid out by John Gast's Heirs." Laid out Apr. 29, 1891; recorded Dec. 24, 1891, Plan Book 12, p. 95. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780679. [view source] gast-heirs-plan
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Allegheny, vol. 2, plate 12. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1890. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1890-volume-2-plat-book-allegheny; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1890-allegheny-vol-2
- ↑ United States Census schedules, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. United States Census Office, 1870. Data available from Historic Pittsburgh at http://exhibit.library.pitt.edu/census/. [view source] census-1870-allegheny
- ↑ "Necrological record." Pittsburgh Post, Mar. 29, 1894, p. 4. Newspapers.com 86418372. [view source] necrological-1894-03-29
- ↑ "Valentine Gast dead: Demise of the Allegheny alderman and ex-councilman." Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, Mar. 29, 1894, p. 6. Newspapers.com 85588022. [view source] valentine-gast-dead
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the city, neighborhoods, streets, parks and more got their names, pp. 183–186. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
