Armstrong Parklet

1935/1980

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Armstrong Parklet
  • Title
  • Armstrong Parklet
  • Creator
  • Elton L. Schnellbacher
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B019.F07.I01
  • Description
  • Armstrong Parklet was located at the corner of 12th and Sarah Streets in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood. The South Side is across the Monongahela River and approximately 1.4 miles south of downtown Pittsburgh. The area was once composed of a number of smaller communities including Birmingham and East Birmingham, Ormsby, South Pittsburgh, and Monongahela. All of these boroughs were annexed to the City of Pittsburgh in 1872. During the late eighteenth century the South Side had a single owner, John Ormsby, who had been given several thousand acres as payment for his assistance in the building of Fort Pitt. In 1811 Ormsby’s son-in-law, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, laid out a town on the flats and named its streets after Ormsby’s children, Mary, Jane, Sarah, and Sidney.
  • Subject
  • Armstrong Parklet (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    South Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Playgrounds--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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