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Junction Hollow is a small wooded valley bordering the west flanks of
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and the campus of Carnegie Mellon University and the southern edge of the
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's campus in
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,
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. The valley runs south to north approximately . It begins where Four Mile Run empties into the
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and runs through the neighborhood of
Four Mile Run Four Mile Run is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 stream in Northern Virginia that starts near Interstate 66, at Gordon Avenue in Fairfax County and pro ...
north into Oakland along Schenley Park, Carnegie Mellon, and the
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are four museums that are operated by the Carnegie Institute headquartered in the Carnegie Institute complex in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Carnegie Institute complex, which includes th ...
, and ends at Neville Street behind Central Catholic High School. It is spanned by four major bridges; from north to south they are the Forbes Avenue Bridge, Schenley Bridge,
Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge The Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge is a steel deck truss bridge located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The bridge carries the four-lane roadway of Boulevard of the Allies across a ravine known as Junction Hollow, connecting the ne ...
, and Frazier Street Bridge. Junction Hollow is often confused for
Panther Hollow Panther Hollow is a small, somewhat isolated neighborhood at the bottom of Joncaire Street in Junction Hollow that runs along Boundary Street and is located in the Central Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood was settle ...
, which at Panther Hollow Lake veers off from it to the northeast into the park.


History

Junction Hollow is named for the Pittsburgh Junction Railroad, which first laid tracks there in the 1880s, 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. 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 Point. Today the stream is piped underground to the river. In the 1950s and 1960s planners created a grand proposal to fill the hollow with a research complex extending from the
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and Carnegie Mellon University to the river, but it was never realized.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSYcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wlYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6704%2C3089945 Since the 1990s, the
Eliza Furnace Trail The Three Rivers Heritage Trail is an urban rail trail paralleling the riverbanks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County for about , often on both sides of the rivers, and offering views of the city. The tr ...
extends into the hollow, where it is called Junction Hollow Trail.


See also

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Four Mile Run Four Mile Run is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 stream in Northern Virginia that starts near Interstate 66, at Gordon Avenue in Fairfax County and pro ...


References

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