History -- Pgh & PRCo --- WAS:---[West Liberty]

[Donald Galt]

On 7 Sep 00, at 13:56, Jim Holland wrote:

> 
>  Did I miss something here?  If I remember correctly, one of
>  your
> previous posts indicated that Brookline and west as far as
> Neeld Avenue were included within West Liberty.  If this was
> annexed to the city, then Brookline and Beechview and
> districts within Pgh; how did their naming come about?
> 

Part of the western boundary of WL Borough ran along Fallowfield, 
so Beechview was for the most part not included in the borough. In 
fact, the 1876 map shows the borough of Espey, corresponding 
closely to Beechview. But the name must have been changed after 
1876, since the borough of Beechview was incorporated into Pgh in 
1909.

The turn-of-the-century topographic map makes no indication of 
Brookline, so I'd surmise that the name, as well as perhaps 
Edgebrook and Overbrook, hatched from the minds of later 
developers, quite possibly after West Liberty had disappeared as a 
corporate entity.

Can somebody tell us when the Brookline streetcar line was built?

Note to John Swindler: I don't know where Liberty Township was. 
East Liberty appears to have lain on the boundary between Collins 
and Pitt Townships.

Don