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Lower Hill District Scene
1950/1956
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Title
Lower Hill District Scene
Creator
Department of City Planning
Identifier
MSP285.B033.F06.I05
Description
Looking south on Chatham Street from Wylie Avenue. The Hill District, one of the oldest residential sections in Pittsburgh, began in the late 1840s when banker Thomas Mellon bought a tract of farmland on the slopes nearest the city and subdivided it into smaller lots. In subsequent years successive waves of immigrants including Jews, Italians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles and, finally, African Americans populated the Hill. After World War II, during the city’s Lower Hill redevelopment, 80 city blocks or 100 acres were cleared and 8000 residents, or one-fifth of the Hill’s population at the time, were relocated to make way for the Civic Arena development project.
Subject
Lower Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Chatham Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Houses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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