Junction Hollow is a small wooded valley bordering the west flanks of Schenley Park and the campus of Carnegie Mellon University and the southern edge of the University of Pittsburgh 's campus in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .
5-556: Panther Hollow is a small, somewhat isolated community at the bottom of Joncaire Street in Junction Hollow that runs along Boundary Street and is located in the Central Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . The community was settled in late 19th century mostly by Italian immigrants from Pizzoferrato and Gamberale , Italy . Even today, park benches and picnic tables in the neighborhood are painted in
10-657: Is often confused for Panther Hollow , which at Panther Hollow Lake veers off from it to the northeast into the park. 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
15-640: The Monongahela River and runs through the neighborhood of Four Mile Run north into Oakland along Schenley Park, Carnegie Mellon, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh , 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 , and Frazier Street Bridge. Junction Hollow
20-550: 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 University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to the river, but it was never realized. Since
25-639: The red, white, and green of the Italian flag and a sign post marks the distance to the two Italian cities from which most of the original residents arrived. Among its most famous such residents was Pittsburgh boxing legend Mose Butch. A remembrance memorial in the neighborhood, dedicated on December 2, 2007, commemorates the original 95 families that first settled in the neighborhood. Video Junction Hollow The 150-foot-deep (46 m) valley runs south to north approximately 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km). It begins where Four Mile Run empties into
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