Streets Run is a
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accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the
Monongahela River in
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This
urban stream drains portions of the communities of
Pittsburgh,
Baldwin
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,
Brentwood,
West Mifflin and
Whitehall, an area of about ten square miles.
Colonial history
Streets Run, previously referred to as Licking Creek, is depicted in ''A map of the most inhabited part of
Virginia containing the whole province of
Maryland with part of
Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and
North Carolina,'' drawn by
Joshua Fry
Colonel Joshua Fry (1699–1754) was an English-born American adventurer who became a professor, then real estate investor and local official in the colony of Virginia. Although he served several terms in the House of Burgesses, he may be best kn ...
and
Peter Jefferson
Peter Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was a planter, cartographer and politician in colonial Virginia best known for being the father of the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. The "Fry-Jefferson Map", creat ...
in 1751, and published by Thos. Jefferys, London, 1755. This landmark map, unusual in that it relied on firsthand surveys, is the first correct depiction of the
Allegheny Mountains, complete with "The Great Road from the
Yadkin River thro Virgionia to
Philadelphia distant 455 Miles" - an accurate survey of what would come to be styled the
Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.
Mining history
James Hardin Hays began mining coal along Streets Run in 1828. Other coal mines in the watershed were run by the I.D. Risher and Daniel W Risher Companies, as well as the Harrison Gas Coal Company.
Railroad history
The
H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad
The H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad opened in 1878 to carry coal from the Hays family mines along Becks Run and Streets Run in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Both branches included an incline, and both are visib ...
ran along Streets Run to service the mine developed by J.H. Hays. It ended at Six Mile Ferry, on the Monongahela. The
Pittsburgh Southern Railroad
The Pittsburgh Southern Railway was a railroad in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was formed in March 1879 by the merger of the narrow gauge Pittsburgh Southern Railroad (which was the narrow gauge ''Pittsburgh, Castle Shannon and Washington ...
and its successor, the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...
,
[
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1883/07/03/103438623.pdf] also had lines running through the valley. The
Whitehall Tunnel
The Whitehall Tunnel in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania was originally built by the B&O Railroad in 1899 as a double-track tunnel. The tunnel was completed in 1900.
It was part of the Baltimore and Ohio Short Line Railroad, and allowed the B&O to by ...
connects this valley with the
Peters Creek watershed.
See also
*
List of rivers of Pennsylvania
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References
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Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Monongahela River
Mining in Pennsylvania
Rivers of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Allegheny Plateau