Pittsburgh & Allegheny City Maps
published 1872 and also includes the boroughs of
Monongahela, Temperanceville, Chartiers, Saint-Clair,
Union, Birmingham,
Sharpsburg, Allentown, East Liberty, Millvale, Etna, Mt. Washington, Ormsby
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All the maps include landowner names for the
year 1877 in high quality PDF format
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| 1872 | 6.5 mb | INDEX to maps below |
| 1872 | 4.3 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 1 |
| 1872 | 7.6 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 2 |
| 1872 | 4.3 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 3 |
| 1872 | 5.5 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 4 |
| 1872 | 4.6 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 5 |
| 1872 | 4.8 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 6 |
| 1872 | 5.6 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 7 |
| 1872 | 4.1 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 8 |
| 1872 | 5.8 mb | Allegheny City Ward No. 9 |
| 1872 | 5.3 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 1 |
| 1872 | 3.3 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 2 |
| 1872 | 3.1 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 3 (plus original plan) |
| 1872 | 4.4 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 4 |
| 1872 | 4.9 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 5 (includes Wards 7 & 8) |
| 1872 | 3.4 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 6 |
| 1872 | 4.9 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 7 & 8 (includes Ward 5) |
| 1872 | 3.8 mb | Pittsburgh City Wards No. 9 & 10 |
| 1872 | 6.5 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 11 (includes part Ward 13) |
| 1872 | 5.1 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 12 |
| 1872 | 2.6 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 13 |
| 1872 | 3.2 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 14 |
| 1872 | 4.9 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 15 |
| 1872 | 5.7 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 16 |
| 1872 | 5.5 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 17 |
| 1872 | 3.6 mb | Pittsburgh City Wards No. 18 & 19 |
| 1872 | 2.6 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 20 |
| 1872 | 2.6 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 21 |
| 1872 | 2.7 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 22 |
| 1872 | 3.7 mb | Pittsburgh City Ward No. 23 |
| 1872 | 3.3 mb | Temperanceville & Chartiers |
| 1872 | 2.6 mb | West Pittsburgh & Union |
| 1872 | 2.7 mb | Saint Clair & Lower Saint Clair |
| 1872 | 7.9 mb | Birmingham & East Birmingham |
| 1872 | 4.4 mb | Monongahela & South Pittsburgh |
| 1872 | 6.8 mb | East Liberty, Pittsburgh (part of Wards 19, 20, 21) |
| 1872 | 5.8 mb | Sharpsburg & Allentown |
| 1872 | 8.6 mb | Mt. Washington |
| 1872 | 5.9 mb | Millvale & Etna |
| 1872 | 4.1 mb | Ormsby |
| 1872 | 4.1 mb | Homestead |
| 1877 | Various | Ohio River Maps - 67 additional maps Pittsburgh to Cincinnati Note: this set is on another web page |
These maps identify wards, districts and
townships and also include landowner and street names.
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Many early settlers came down the Ohio river
from Pennsylvania. I've found the new www.footnote.com
web site extremely helpful. New material from the Pennsylvania Archives has
just been added which is now free. After the Revolutionary War many
families settled in the new frontier along the Ohio River. Individuals, as
well as their descendants, claimed their service pensions in the form of
land grants in the new territories in the Ohio River Valley.
. . . some documents are free . . . others are
by membership . . . and the original records are excellent
quality . . .
Some of the Pension Applications read like a family tree - here's
an example I found
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Rumsey Map Collection
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