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General George Washington
General George Washington led two Virgiinia companies into the Great Meadows, to try to dislodge the French and their American Indian allies. -
William Pitt The Elder
Pitt came to power in 1757 as a prime minister. His leadership resulted victories in the french and indian war and the Europe . -
Marquis Duquene1758
Stirred british colonists to action with a plan to tall military forts from the Mississippi
Distant bases forced him to stop with the third, Fort Duquesne, a stockade fort at the forks of the Ohio.
The French retreated from the British and destroyed the fort before they can get to it -
Illness of John Forbes
The illness that John Forbes had, made him miss the last 6 weeks of the victorious march to Fort Duquesne. He died March of 1759,almost 4 months after the british took the forkes on November 25, 1758. -
Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt was the last fort of the three built by the french and british. At the forks of the Ohio as they fought for the land. -
The Block House
Its the oldest building in Pittsburgh -
Develpement of Pittsburgh
Streets were built. Apartment Buildings, a market, and a courthouse were also built. Boat builders started to make Pittsburgh an actually city. -
George Anschutz
Built the first iron furnace her in Pittsburgh -
Tarleton Bates and Thomas Stewart
These two men was in a duel because of a pollitical argument, Bates, an editor of the Tree of Liberty, was shot and killed by a merchant, Thomas Stewart. -
Major Ebenezer Denny
Ebenezer was the first mayor of Pittsburgh
Pittsbrurgh was changed from a borough to a city -
Monongahela Warf
The monongahela was used by boats coming to pittsburgh
and too transportation such as traveling or trading or selling goods -
Stephen Collins Foster
Foster was born in a cottage in Lawrencille. He was the first professional songwriter. He wrote 189 songs in his short and stubborn life. Most of his songs was melodic, and sentimental ballads. -
Neville B. Craig
Neville Craig was the son of Isaac Craig and Amelia Craig . He was born in the blockhouse in 1787. Craig was the publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette. -
Pioneer Fast Line
People that are in Philidelphia can travelm to Pittsburgh in less than 3 and 1/2 days. People can transport from state to state by using a tran instead of a boat. -
The First Wire Rope
German, John Roebling, made to first wired rope on his farm in Saxonburg in, 1841. Through the years of 1845-1847, he used his new creation to build the world's first cable suspension bridge across the Monongahela River and the Smithfield Street.
He was America's best Bridge Engineer. -
The Great Fire
A huge fire started in Pittsburgh that caused 12,000 people homeless, 1 death, millions of dollars worth of damagea and also decrease of population. This fire left Pittsburghers with nothing to do about it. -
The Mystery
This article was made from Martin R. Delany. A Harvard Medical School graduate. -
Jane Grey Swisshelm
Jane Swisshelm was the first women to dent a man's world. She wanted to get rid of slavery. From 1848-1854, she published the Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter. She also wanted women's rights. -
Andrew Carnegie
On November 2, 1849, little Andrew, a messanger found a $500 draft for the O'Reilly Telegraph Co mpany. Like a honest little boy, he returned it. -
The First Through Train
A crowd gathered in East Liberty in December 10,1852, to welcome the first through train from the East. which has escalated mountains, via inclined planes. -
David N. White
David White, the Gazzete eeditor, published the first call for formation of a Pennsylvania Republican Party. He also was a founder of the national party, which completed orginization in Pittsburgh, at its first national conventionin February1856. These sessions was in the Layfayette Hall on Fourth Street. -
St. Paul Cathedral Church
Acclaimed as one of the finest churches in the United States. -
Pittsburgh Dollar Saving Institution
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Pittsburgh Sanitary Commision
The pittsburgh sanitary commission was organized early in the war to send medical care to the front lines. -
Rodman Gun
Was one of many produced during the civil war but the C.Knapp foundry. It wa the biggest in the war -
Henry J Heinz
He plaanted a three quarter acre horseradish patch in Sharpsburg for horses to eat -
Mount Washington's Incline
The duquesne incline was built in 1877 for $47,000. 500,000 people rode this incline without anybody getting injured.
This inclined helps people get from West Carson St up to Mount Washington easier than driving or even walking. You can also take it down too. -
Pittsburgh Pirates's stongest Hitting Club in Baseball
The second place Pittsburgh Pirates had one of the strongest hitting clubs. Number 17, Jake Stenzel, batted .409. Number 2, Elmer Smith batted .366. The 3rd Pirate was number 7, George Van Haltren and he batted .350. -
Carnegie International
Andrew found the Carnegie international in 1896. It will bring art work to Pittsburgh and to build a collection of contemporary art.
Today it is the oldest exibition of international contemporary art in The United States -
Luna Park
Luna Park open in 1905 on the old Aspinwall estate. The main entrance was at the corner of Craig Street and Baum Boulevard.
At night, there was aerial acts, band concerts, and a shoot-the-chutes ride into a pool of water that atracted crowds up to 35,000 people. In 1907, a lion escaped and killed a woman and that made its populaton decrease. There was also a fire two years later and the park never got re-built. -
Fred Clarke
Fred Clarke won 110 league games and the World Series -
Cumberland W. Posey
Son of one of the formers of the Pittsburgh courier, organized a group of homestead steel workers into what was one of baseball's greatest blubs and great attractions -
Steel Mills
Blanketed the Strip District. A wave of migration of southern black men and their families to Pittsburgh for steel jobs in the early decades of the 20th century. -
Univerity of Pittsburgh
Frick Arcres in Oakland became the new site of the University of Pittsburgh in the 1920s -
First KDKA's Downtown Studio
Will Rodgers and Ziegfield Follies, cast memebers of the special broadcast from KDKA's first downtown studi thats locacated on Wood Street and Liberty Avenue in the Post Offices. On Novemeber 2, 1920, about a 1000 People tuned Crystal sets to KDKA, to hear the returns of the Harding Cox election. That was scheduled the first actual radio broadcast. -
KennyWood Park
After the opening of King Tutankhamen's tomb,Kennywood Park changed the theme of its Bug House dark ride to Tut's Tomb the following year in 1924 -
Liberty Tubes
On March 27, 1928 country commisioner Joseph Armstrong's two grandsons cut the ribbon to open the $6 million, Liberty Bridge. The next 90 minutes, Pittsburghers drove their cars across the Liberty Bridge -
William McNair
He was Pittsburgh's first democratic mayor. -
Mellon Square Park
In October of 1955, Mellon Square Park opened on the 18th of that month. On its first day, about 5,000 people gathered on the Terrazzo Plaza to watch the two men that is dedicating the park, David Lawrence and Richard Mellon -
Harvey Haddix
Harvey Haddix becmae the first pitcher in baseball history to throw 12 pefect innings -
John Cardinal Wright
Known for his ecumenicism while servicing as bishop of Pittsburgh from 1959-1969. He was elevated by the Pope, Paul VI. In 1965, he went on a trip to the Vatican -
Civic Auditorium
The $22.5 million Civic Arena was built in 1960. It was funded by Edgar J. Kaufmann and designed by Mitchell and Ritchey. People say that it was the biggest retractable dome. At first people didnt know what to call it, but then it got its offical name, Civic Auditorium. It was also refered to the Civic Arena -
General Matthew B. Ridgway
He led the American forces in Europe and Asia. He chaired the board of Mellon Institute for five years before he retired. He retired in 1960.
he died in 1993 at the age of 98 -
Pirates 1960 World Series
Pirates !st basemen Bill Mazeroski, leads the pittsburgh pirates to world series champions ! when he hits a clutch bottom of the 9th walk off homerun -
John F. Kennedy
Kennedyp made his last of the six political visits here on October 12, 1962, addressing about 8300 people to at the Pitt Field House. He discarded his remarks to burst on the Republicans.
John F Kennedy died November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas. -
Rachel Carson
Grew up in a rural community with her mom which was the reason Rachel loves nature so much. She was a writer, scientist and an ecologist. -
Riot in the Hill District
505 fires, one death to a woman from homestead, millions of thefts, trade losses, police and national guard. $620,000 in property damage and 926 arrest. -
Walt Harper
Jazz, pianist,grew up in a muical family in Schenley Heights and was a mainstay at the Crawford Grill before Opening his own club -
Heinz Hall
Loew's Penn Theatre was converted into Heinz Hall for a new home for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Performing Arts. This was very nice on the inside. It had a glittering palace of crystal chandeliers. White, gold-leafed Corinthian Columns and also had cromison carpet -
Roberto Clemente makes baseball history
Pirates' Right Fielder Roberto Clemente is honored of being the 11th man in baseball history to have 3,000 hits in one year.
In the 18 years of playing with the pirates he received a .318 batting average. He died at the age of 38 from a plane crash of San Juan. -
Point State Park
In August, of 1974, Point State Park added a 150 foot sraying fountain that was the last piece of the park. It also got a Fort Pitt Museum. -
Gerald Ford
made a commitment to federal aid for day by day operations of financially troubled tansit system at a conference at the Hilton -
Jane Scully
Jane was the fiirst woman to be elected to the board of directors of Gulf Oil Corperation. She also was the president of Carlow College. -
Pennsylvania Lottery
The Number game went legal in 1977. The first day of the state lottery's new game, the Daily Number, people lined up outside of New Diamond Market in Market Square. -
Daniel Constantine Marino Jr
In 1979 of February, Dan Mariono signs a letter to play for Pittsburgh of University. He played football at Central Catholic and he was a star. He became the Panthers' most heralded pickup sice Tony Dorsett -
Willie Stargel
Willie Stargel retired in October of 1982. He played all 20 years of baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a Outfielder and a 1st Baseman. Stargel was a seven time all star that hit 475 home runs and had more than 1,500 RBI's.He was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1988 with a 82% vote. -
Dorothy Six
one of the world's biggest and most modern blast furnace -
Sophie Masloff
Sophie Masloff was the first female mayor. She also was the first to suggest that Pittsburgh build an old fashioned ball park for the Pittsburgh Pirates.During the Fourth of July, she conducts the pittsburgh's symphony in the Point State Park. -
William Block III
Pittsburgh Post Gazette publisher, William Block celebrates the first paper after an eight month stike that finally ended with the closure of the Pittsburgh Press and the sale of the assets of the Post Gazette. -
Historic Center
The Historic Center was opened in a former ice company warehouse in the Strip District. After it was built, Pittsburgh gained a large historic space in which to help it examine and celebrate its past. The coglike finial, designed by Pfaffmann and associates, pays tribute in part to City's engineering achievements. -
George Washington and Guyasuta Statue
Guyasuta, chief of Senecas, was a guide for George Washington on his journey to Fort Leboeuf in 1753. This statue can be found on Mount Washington. -
Suzie McConnell-Serio
Suzie won Olympic medals of 1988 and 1992. She also earned a record of 321-86 as a coach for 13 years at Oakland Catholic High School before coaching in the WNBA -
Fred Rodgers
Fred Rodgers was an educator, Presbyterian minister and a consummate gentleman. He hosted the famous Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood for 33 years in Oakland Studios of WQED. In 2008, a memorial statue and children's park was built in his honor -
The War Is Over
Finally the War is over. On Fifth Ave. Confetti rained down on the Soldiers, the civillians, and the sailors. They lost 5800 of soldiers.
They also got $19 billion of amunition and war goods and $95 million yons of steel for wartime -
Steve Blass
Steve's pitching led the pirates to a World Series win over the Baltomore Orioles in 1971.
Steve Blass shut down the Orioles's lineup for two games. Their powerful lineup was only aloud 1 run each game.
In 1983, Steve Blass became a commentaor and is still continuing his commentator Career
