One Hundred Years of Progress

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Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Progress: Address by Hon. George T. Oliver, Senator From Pennsylvania, Delivered at the Banquet of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society, in Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the City of Pittsburgh, March 18th, 1916At the time of its incorporation as a city, one hundred years ago today, Pittsburgh comprised only the triangle bounded by the two rivers and a line running from Try street, on the Monongahela River, to what was then Washington street, but is now Eleventh street, on the Allegheny. The city was divided into two and afterwards into four wards. In 1837 the Borough of Northern Liberties, extending out Penn and Liberty avenues from Eleventh street, was annexed to the city as the Fifth ward. In 1845 and 1846, the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth wards were added, extending the city limits out to the Pitt Township line near Soho on the Monongahela side and to the Lawrenceville line at about Thirty-third street on the Allegheny.In 1867 the Borough of Lawrenceville and the Townships of Pitt, Oakland, Peebles', Liberty and Collins, comprising what is now known as the East End, were added. At this time the South Side boroughs and the City of Allegheny also voted on the question of annexation, but returned large majorities against the proposition, but in 1872, by an act of Assembly, the eight boroughs on the South Side of the river were added to the city without the formality of a referendum. With the exception of a few, small boroughs and parts of townships in the East End and on the South Side, no further additions were made until the rape of the City of Allegheny in 1907, with which we are all familiar, and which gave to the city its present metropolitan status.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.