The section of Perry South surrounding Charles Street was once called Pleasant Valley and considered a neighborhood in its own right.

[3] Perrysville Avenue is an extension of Federal Street, the main north-south thoroughfare of the city formerly known as Allegheny.

Federal Street ends and Perrysville Avenue begins where the flat river plain gives way to a steep hill.

Josh Gibson, Hall of Fame catcher for the Homestead Grays, a Negro National League team of the 1920s, lived there."

A series of these rowhouses on Brightridge Street have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.