One of Pittsburgh’s famously steep hills, measuring in at a 24% grade and 20 feet wide, Rialto Street is also called “Pig Hill” by locals as it was used to drive pigs up from the rail stations on Herr’s Island (renamed Washington’s Landing) to Spring Garden, which was Pittsburgh’s early meat packing neighborhood.
Representing a North Side Neighborhood of Distinction
Info is wrong. It Troy Hill, not Spring Garden.
The slaughter houses were on Spring Garden
Keep going up and see what it is…
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Notice the extremely noxious invasive plant, Chinese knotweed on both sides of the street. It’s taking over western Pennsylvania!