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Northland has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh to provide access to historic photographs of the North Hills area. You can search and browse these images using the Historic Pittsburgh website. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/northland.html
What’s online:
The core of the Northland Historical Image Collection is made up of more than 800 photographs from the Allegheny County Department of Public Works covering the municipalities of Bradford Woods Borough, Franklin Park Borough, Marshall Township, McCandless Township and Ross Township. These photos cover the construction and upgrades of county roads beginning in 1919 in the North Hills as well as the construction of North Park. Also included are photographs from the North Allegheny History Museum collection, the Franklin Park Borough collection and private collections from individuals, organizations and businesses in the North Hills area.
Ordering reproductions of images from the Northland Historical Image Collection:
- If the source collection is The North Allegheny History Museum please contact Joe Bullick at jebullick@zoominternet.net.
- If the source collection is the Franklin Park Borough Archives please contact Debby Rabold at 412-364-4115 ext. 309.
All other source collections use the form below to request a digital copy of the image/images you want from Northland.
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to everyone who helped to create this local history resource for you, especially:
Bill Connery, Allegheny County Department of Public Works
Debby Rabold, Franklin Park Historian
Krystal Mitchell
Friends of North Park – in particular, Mary Bates and John Berckbickler
Joe Bullick, North Allegheny History Museum
Diane Holleran
Michael Bolam and Aaron Brenner, University of Pittsburgh – Digital Research Library
Digging Deeper: Click on the links below for supporting information regarding the road projects and other events covered in the historic photographs.
What do the Station numbers listed on some of the photos mean?
Allegheny County Department of Public Works road projects used a system of Station numbers to mark a specific location on a road during their projects. These stations were reference points that corresponded to the project map. Stations would be numbered every 100 feet from the beginning of each road project to the end of that project. Station numbers for each project were different, so a station number for a future project on the same road would likely refer to a different location unless that project began in the same place as the previous one.
Summary and timeline of Allegheny County road projects in the North Hills
1912 Allegheny County Road Department Outline Plan of Improved Roads (published by Hutchinson & McCrary in Marietta, Ohio and the scale is 1”=2,000’)
Updated February 23, 2012