An older neighborhood name formerly in use within the Allegheny West area was
Swampoodle. The name is now archaic, although SEPTA's proposed
Swampoodle Connection was named for it as recently as the 1980s. Finkel defines Swampoodle as "Junction of three railroad lines, vic. [vicinity] Lehigh Avenue and 22nd Streets." He gives "(before 1926)" as the time period during which the name is attested in the sources that he and his contributors consulted. The Philadelphia Information Locator Service list, augmented from the Finkel 1995 list, repeats the same definition. However, the junction of three railroads to which they refer would apparently be the junction at
North Philadelphia station, which clearly has been well east of 22nd Street since the 1890s or earlier. Perhaps
Swampoodle extended throughout the entire area between North Philadelphia station and 22nd Street. ==References==