*Editor’s note: This is the second and final part of a two-part article looking at the contrasting histories of Brunot Island and Washington’s Landing. It was written by Macklin Monaghan, a former intern for The Northside Chronicle, as an internship final project. See the March 2026 issue or our website, thenorthsidechronicle.com, for the first part of the series.
During these same years however, Brunot Island witnessed a contrasting turn of events.
While not directly correlated to Westinghouse, his development of the island lead to the infrastructure needed to properly access the island, in which in 1903 — the same year that the railroad was constructed on Washington’s landing, a group of businessmen organized under the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Driving Club and constructed a one mile oval dirt race track on Brunot Island; of which, horse and motor vehicle races were hosted for an audience on the island. The first race was hosted in 1904, and in the following year Louis Chevrolet took the AAA championship title taking place on the island, according to WESA, Pittsburgh’s NPR news station…