Panther Hollow is a small, somewhat isolated neighborhood at the bottom of Joncaire Street in

Junction Hollow Junction Hollow is a small wooded valley bordering the west flanks of Schenley Park and the campus of Carnegie Mellon University and the southern edge of the University of Pittsburgh's campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The valley runs south t ...

that runs along Boundary Street and is located in the Central

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section of

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. The neighborhood was settled in late 19th century mostly by Italian immigrants from

Pizzoferrato Pizzoferrato is a ''comune'' and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy. History Pizzoferrato was founded in the Middle Ages. Its high vantage point helped protect it from bandits. Very few documents remain so much of the ...

and

Gamberale Gamberale is a village and ''comune'' in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. The village is from Chieti, the provincial capital. It lies high in the Apennine Mountains The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (; grc-g ...

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. Even today, park benches and picnic tables in the neighborhood are painted in the red, white, and green of the

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and a sign post marks the distance to the two Italian cities from which most of the original residents arrived. Among its most famous such residents was Pittsburgh boxing legend Mose Butch. A remembrance memorial in the neighborhood, dedicated on December 2, 2007, commemorates the original 95 families that first settled in the neighborhood.

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Schenley Park website

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Names of the families and plaque
Video
WQED feature on Panther Hollow
{{Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Italian-American culture in Pittsburgh Parks in Pittsburgh Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh

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