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3 unusual facts about Forbes Avenue


David Hunter Riddle

It was located on the corner of Ross and Diamond (now Forbes Avenue) streets, on the site of the present day City-County building.

Forbes Avenue

From Oakland, Forbes Avenue continues eastward past Carnegie Mellon University and Schenley Park, through the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and past Homewood Cemetery and Frick Park before it reaches its eastern terminus at Wilkinsburg.

It has a length of about ten miles (16 km) and is named for John Forbes (1707–1759), whose expedition recaptured Fort Duquesne and who renamed the place Pittsburgh in 1758.



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