Editing Aspinwall, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Laying Telford, Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, 1908.jpg|thumb|left|Laying [[macadam#Thomas Telford|Telford]] on Freeport Road, Aspinwall, 1908]]
In the mid-1880s, the area which is now Aspinwall was primarily owned by the descendants of James Ross, but as the steel industry was thriving in [[Pittsburgh]], Henry Warner, superintendent of the Allegheny County Workhouse, had the idea of creating a residential community along the bank of a river.

Warner traveled to New York to discuss the idea with Annie Aspinwall. He purchased {{convert|155|acre|km2}} of land from her and formed the Aspinwall Land Company in 1890. Pittsburghers, mostly from the upper-middle class, purchased lots from the 60 available home sites. By 1890, the town had 400 residents, most of whom were young couples with children. The existing government of O'Hara Township was having difficulty providing services to the rapidly growing area and, in 1892, 40 residents of the new community signed a petition requesting incorporation as "The Borough of Aspinwall, a self-governing unit."<ref name="aspinwallhistory">{{cite web| url =http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~njm1/asp1.htm| title = History of The Borough of Aspinwall, Pennsylvania | access-date = 2007-08-19| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070824095759/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~njm1/asp1.htm| archive-date= August 24, 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref>

Aspinwall was officially incorporated as a borough on December 28, 1892, from [[O'Hara Township]].<ref name="phmc">{{cite web| url =http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/counties/pdfs/Allegheny.pdf | title = Allegheny County – 2nd Class | access-date = 2007-08-19| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070810194157/http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/counties/pdfs/Allegheny.pdf| archive-date= August 10, 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref>

Aspinwall was served by [[Pittsburgh Railways]] streetcar service ''94 Aspinwall'' from c.1910 until November 12, 1960, when the service was discontinued on the closure of the 62nd Street Sharpsburg Bridge. This was replaced by the [[Senator Robert D. Fleming Bridge]] which did not have streetcar tracks.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.pghbridges.com/pittsburghE/0589-4482/sharpsburg1900.htm
|title=Sharpsburg Bridge c1900-1962
|date=December 22, 2008 
|access-date=August 14, 2009
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090830180546/http://pghbridges.com/pittsburghE/0589-4482/sharpsburg1900.htm| archive-date= August 30, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

From 1893 to 1905, Aspinwall developed in three phases, beginning with the area closest to the [[Allegheny River]]. On September 25, 1905, a group of Aspinwall residents purchased {{convert|200|acre|km2}} from the Delafield Plan and annexed this additional land to the borough.

Early recreational facilities in the borough included tennis courts and [[water fountain]]s. During [[World War&nbsp;I]], the Patriots Committee of Aspinwall purchased [[wristwatch]]es from a watch factory in [[Canton, Ohio]], which they presented to the approximately 164 Aspinwall men entering the service. Aspinwall held their own victory parade and memorial service for the soldiers of their borough.<ref name="aspinwallhistory"/>