Peebles Township was a
township
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in
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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. Created out of
Pitt Township in 1833, it originally included most of what is now the eastern part of the city of
Pittsburgh
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from the
Monongahela River
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in the south (today's
Hazelwood) to the
Allegheny River
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in the north. Portions of Peebles broke away to form the borough of
Lawrenceville (1834) and the townships of
Collins (1850) and
Liberty
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(1864). Those municipalities and the remainder of Peebles Township were incorporated into Pittsburgh in 1868.
References
External links
1850 map of Allegheny County
Former townships in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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