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[Donald Galt]

On 5 Sep 00, at 1:10, Donald Galt wrote:

> The oldest map I have, dating from the 1880s, shows West
> Liberty along the Washington Road in Lower St. Clair
> township - i.e. the section along WL Avenue north of
> Brookline. More modern maps place it in the same location.

The date of the abovementioned map is in fact 1862 rather than the 
1880s.

By 1890 West Liberty was a borough, until absorption into 
Pittsburgh on 6 Jan 1908. It abutted Pittsburgh along the line of 
what is now Warrington Avenue (the upper part of which was then 
called Washington Avenue), then continuing west down Sawmill 
Run.

West Liberty borough was separated from the borough of 
Beechview by a complicated boundary including Fallowfield 
Avenue. It included all of Brookline, but not Banksville, Dormont or 
what is now Mount Lebanon. Edgebrook was excluded, the line 
between WL and Baldwin township running along a complicated 
line to the northeast partly along Whited Street. WL extended as 
far east as Beltzhoover Avenue, but the territory east of Montooth 
and as far south as McKinley Park had been occupied by the 
borough of Beltzhoover, incorporated into Pittsburgh in 1898.

Don