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Swisshelm Park is a neighborhood located in the southeast corner of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is represented on (Pittsburgh City Council ) by Corey O'Connor. The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire houses 19 Engine in Swisshelm Park. Swisshelm Park is bordered by Swissvale to the east and Monongahela River to the south. The rest of the neighborhood is largely surrounded by Frick Park. Squirrel Hill's (Nine Mile Run ) project borders it on the west; to the north is a section of the park adjacent to the Regent Square and the Parkway East. It also includes Duck Hollow,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hollowed Out | Last Word | Pittsburgh City Paper )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Progress in 7-year campaign against Duck Hollow dumping | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette )〕 whose roads only connect to Squirrel Hill, in its borders. The Sarah Jackson Black Community Center caters to the recreational and civic interests of the neighborhood. The Center also lists the names of the hundreds who fought in the Second World War from the small community, including seven who died in action. Swisshelm Park Parklet is the place for young children to play. The neighborhood adjoins Frick Park, Regent Square, the Squirrel Hill shopping district, and Edgewood Towne Centre. Swisshelm Park is full of suburban-style ranch and two story brick homes. It is also a tightly knit, family-oriented community. Its residents are active in its many recreational and youth programs. Because many city agencies require its employees to be city residents, the suburban character of the neighborhood has attracted many employees in the Fire Bureau, Police Department, and Pittsburgh School District. == History == Long before it had a name, Swisshelm Park was home to the Susquehannock and Iroquois Indians. Like the adjacent borough of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, Swisshelm Park is named after the Swisshelm family, which moved to the area in 1800, although the land was also known to locals as Deniston Park or North Homestead.〔http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paallegh/swisshelm.html〕 John Swisshelm (1752–1838), a veteran of Valley Forge, purchased a grist mill from William Pollock in 1808 and built a small log cabin in Nine Mile Run Hollow.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Atlas of the Swisshelm Park Neighborhood of Pittsburgh 1977 )〕 The approximate location of the Swisshelm family homestead was just west of what is now S. Braddock Avenue and W. Swissvale Avenue, with the grist mill likely buried where the adjacent parkway now sits.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the Gateway Site )〕 The largely Scotch-Irish settlers in the area took their grain to Swisshelm's grist mill for grinding, which then made its way to Pittsburgh via the old Braddock Road.〔 The grist mill and barn had crumbled and fallen by 1892, while the old Swisshelm house burned down in 1904.〔 The Swisshelm name gained fame and prestige from John Swisshelm's daughter-in-law, Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm, who was a teacher, business owner, prominent feminist, publisher of the Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter - an anti-slavery newspaper〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anti-Slavery Newspapers )〕 - and an organizer of the Underground Railroad. In 1850 Swisshelm made history as the first woman in the Senate press gallery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jane Grey Swisshelm | biography - American journalist | Britannica.com )〕 It was Jane Swisshelm who gave the Borough of Swissvale its name and for whom Swisshelm Park was likely named.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 Before the coal industry moved into Swisshelm Park, the area was mostly farmland. One prominent land-owner in the area was William. S. Haven - a close friend of Andrew Carnegie and one of wealthiest men in Pittsburgh at the time.〔 Haven's homestead was adjoined by the Swisshelm residence at Nine Mile Run Hollow and occupied what is today the Edgewood Towne Centre.〔 Haven's wife, Helen (Cooper),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Haven, William S.; Helen Cooper )〕 gained notoriety during the Civil War for her generous support for the Union troops at nearby Camp Copeland (in the Braddock Borough). She is said to have made daily trips to the camp and, at her own expense, provided the troops with home cooked meals while attending to the sick and dying. Other homesteads in the area were owned by Robert Milligan, John McKelvy, Samuel Deniston, Thomas Dickson, Alexander Gordon, J. S. Newmyer, and Col. William G. Hawkins - all of whom now have schools and streets named after them in Swissvale, Edgewood, and surrounding areas. The building of the Pennsylvania Railroad through the area in 1852 encouraged industry. The Dickson-Stewart Coal Company began operations in 1866, attracting miners and their families. Swisshelm Park was incorporated into the City of Pittsburgh in 1868, relatively late in the city's history,〔An Atlas of the Swisshelm Park Neighborhood of Pittsburgh 1977 http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/files/nrep/1977/swisshelm PNA 1977.pdf〕 when Jane Swisshelm was 53 years old. However, as late as the 1930s, residents noted that they were often not considered by others to be "City residents," given the rather isolated nature of the neighborhood.〔 Even today, Swisshelm Park remains unknown to many Pittsburgh residents and is frequently mistaken as a suburb.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An intro to Swisshelm Park )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to PittsburghCityLiving! )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swisshelm Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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