Junction Hollow is a small wooded valley bordering the west flanks of Schenley Park and the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Schenley Park is a large municipal park located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA between the neighborhoods of Oakland, Greenfield, Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
The 150-foot deep valley runs south to north approximately 2. 5 miles. It begins where Four Mile Run empties into the Monongahela River and runs through the neighborhood of Four Mile Run north into Oakland along Schenley Park, Carnegie Mellon, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and ends at Neville Street behind Central Catholic High School. The Monongahela River (məˌnɒŋɡəˈheɪlə also known locally as the Mon /ˈmɒn/ is a River on the Allegheny Plateau in North-Central Four Mile Run is a small Neighborhood in the Greenfield section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Oakland is the academic cultural and healthcare center of Pittsburgh and is Pennsylvania's third largest " Downtown " This article is about an organization that operates museums For the foundation which supports scientific research refer to the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Central Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic College preparatory school for boys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Junction Hollow is often confused for Panther Hollow, which at Schenley Lake veers off from it to the northeast into the park. Panther Hollow is a small wooded valley in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
History
Junction Hollow is named for the Pittsburgh Junction Railroad, which first laid tracks there in the 1880s. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (now CSX Transportation) mainline ran along the Monongahela, and the idea of a Junction Hollow spur line was to divert rail traffic north through Schenley Tunnel (beneath Neville Street) to a rail yard along the Allegheny River, thus avoiding rail congestion in Downtown. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B&O) was one of the Oldest railroads in the United States and the first Common carrier railroad Schenley Tunnel is a Railroad tunnel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The Allegheny River is a principal Tributary of the Ohio River and is located in the Eastern United States.
Prior to the railroad the area was known as the Four Mile Run Valley, for its stream that was named on account of its distance from the The Point. Point State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA at the confluence Today the stream is piped underneath the ground to the river.
In the 1950s and 1960s planners created a grand proposal to fill the hollow with a research complex extending from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to the river, but it was never realized. The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United
Since the 1990s the Eliza Furnace Trail extends into the hollow where it is called Junction Hollow Trail.
References
- Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787–1987. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7.
- Toker, Franklin (1986, 1994). Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5434-6.
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