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- Segregation
- 1883 onward
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- General area only
Pittsburgh
Founded in 1883 as a Black working-class suburb beside the Pegram railroad shops. It lost half its population between 1970 and 1990 amid disinvestment.
The record
White investor H. L. Wilson owned the land, and it grew up much like neighboring Mechanicsville, but Pittsburgh was predominantly African American. Four streetcar lines served it, and Black-owned businesses lined McDaniel Street. As better-off Black families moved into formerly white areas from the 1960s and public and private investment fell off, home values dropped and houses were abandoned. The population fell from 7,276 in 1970 to 3,624 in 1990 (Wikipedia). Pittsburgh was in the federal Model Cities area; the plan map for its Pittsburgh-Adair Park section is on GSU's GeoServer.
Today: The BeltLine corridor forms the neighborhood's southern edge, and residents have raised concerns about gentrification (Wikipedia).
Where on the map: Between I-20/the rail line (north), Metropolitan Pkwy (west), Peoplestown (east) and the BeltLine (south).