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The Whiskey Rebellion Part 2
the protest and enforce the tax laws. As venturing across the mountains was quirte difficult, the Pittsburghers decided they would produce their own goods and if they had a surplus, sell it to make profit off of their crops. -
The Whiskey Rebellion
The Pittsburgh region's economy was largely agricultural through most of the 1700s, growing from mere subsistence to having a surplus, especially in grains. Farmers found they could make better profits, especially in shipping, by turning their surplus grain into alcohol and bartering it. At the age of 23 President George Washington noted the importance of Pittsburgh and had to face his first challenge as a president; The Whiskey Rebellion. Washington had to send troops to squelch the protest... -
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Early 1700s
The early 1700s were a time where there was little to no sobriety in the nations and in the United States in general. -
Philippe Thomas Joncaire
Philippe Thomas Joncaire, with a troop of Indians, passed by en route to Logstown to establish a French trading house in Pittsburgh. -
George Washington and Robert Dinwinddie
The 21-year old Major George Washington, emissary from Virginia's Governor Robert Dinwiddie travel to the French commandant at Fort LeBoeuf on French Creek , observed the land at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and described it as "extremely well situated for a Fort as it has the absolute command of both Rivers. The Land at the Point is 20 or 25 Feet above the common Surface of the Water; and a considerable Bottom of flat, -
George Washington Was Stranded On Garrison Island
George Washington and his guide, Christopher Gist, were stranded on Garrison Island in the Allegheny River after their raft had been broken into pieces by floating ice in the Allegheny River. -
William Trent Arrived at the Fork
William Tren, the Indian trader, came to the forks. When the militiamen who he had enlisted in the Monongahela Valley arrived, Trent began to build a fort and named it Fort Prince George. -
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Pittsburgh History
This is the history of the steel city Pittsburgh From 1754 to 2014 -
Washington tries to push French off of land
Lt. Col. George Washington tries to push the French and Native Americans out of the Great Meadows. Rain-filled trenches and a "constant galding fire upon us" forced him to go back -
William Pitt the Elder
England was struggling in its attempts to win the New World. Then, William Pitt the Elder became prime minister. His leadership resulted in British victories both in Europe and the French and Inidan War. -
Battle Over Fort Duquesne
Major James Grant (with Forbes's army), received permission to attack Fort Duquesne. He led his force of 800 into disaster; one third of his men were killed. -
The Taking of Fort Duquesne
The Marquis Duquesne planned to build many military forts from St. Lawrence to Mississippi. Lack of supplies forced him to stop at the third, Fort Duquesne. It was a stockade fort at the forks of the Ohio. The French destroyed it in 1758. After destroying it they then left. -
James burd founded Pittsburgh
Colonel James Burd counted the population of Pittsburgh; he found that 149 people, besides the soldiers, were living there. -
General Robert Monokton made Stanwix treaty
General Robert Monckton, in command at Fort Pitt, reafirmed Stanwix's treaty with the Indians. -
Giovanni Morgagni First Autopsies
In 1761, Giovanni Morgagni of Padua was the first man to perform autopsies that relate the patient's illness to their pathologic findings postmortem. Cancer could now can be detected, even after the event of death. -
Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt was cfinished in the winter of 1761. It was the last and largest of the five forts built by the British and the French at the Forks of the Ohio as they fought for control of the land. By 1796 the fort was in ruins, some of its bricks had been salvaged to build some of the town's earliest houses. -
Pittsburgh's New Street Plan
In 1764, the Penns had commissioned Fort Pitt's Col. John Campbell to lay out a street plan for the town. But it only had four blocks adjacent to the fort along the Monongahela River. -
Neville B. Craig's Birth
Neville B. Craig was born in bloockhouse which his parents had put an annex on where they set up housekeeping, later in his life Craig decided to become a proffecional publisher and editor for the Pittsburgh Gazette. -
Ben Franklin's Death
Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the home of his daughter, Sarah Bache. He was 84, suffered from gout and had complained of ailments for some time, completing the final codicil to his will a little more than a year and a half prior to his death. -
The First Iron Furnace
The first iron furnace made by George Anschutz in 1792. Then in 1803 it turned into the first foundry, Joseph McClurg. Another Pittsburgher, William Kelly, started experimenting with a new kind of metal in 1847. After that Andrew Carnegie opened the first Bessemer steel plant on a mass scale in 1875 on Braddock's Field. They first ordered 2,000 steel rails for the Pennsylvania Railroad president J. Edgar Thomson. -
Tarleton Bates and Thomas Stewart Duel
Tarleton and Thomas were in a duel over a political argument and in the end Tarleton Bates was shot and Thomesw Stewart was the victor of the duel. -
Neville B. Craig Publishing
Craig was an influential publisher and editor for the Pittsburgh Gazette,founded in 1786 by John Scull, who brought the printing press over the mountains to establish the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies. -
Stephen Collins Foster
On the day when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died ,Stephen Collins Foster, Americas first songwriter was born in a cottage in Lawrenceville. He wrote 189 songs in his short, troubled, life, many of them melodic and had many sentimental ballads. His inspiraton came from slave songs, and the African American dialect of Blackface he heard when on the Cincinnati wharf as a clerk for his brother's steamboat. -
Pittsburgh Population
Population: Pittsburgh, 12,568; Allegheny, 2801 citizens, eight slaves; Allegheny County, 50,552. -
The Burke's Building
Burke's Building was built in 1836 at 211 Fourth Avenue, it is the city's oldest office building. It was designed by John Chislett. -
Monongahela Hotel Built
In a wharf little boys used to play at in modern day wilkinsburgh, at the time there was a wood mill that was torn down to begin the construction of the Monongahela Hotel. -
Thomas Mellon
Thomas Mellon, who was born in Ireland, grew up on Wetmoreland County farm. He attended Western University. He started his own law business in 1839. He married Sarah Jane Negley in 1843, and had 8 children. After being a judge of the common pleas court, he opened T. Mellon and Sons Bank on Smithfield Street. -
Allegheny Courthouse
The Allegheny Courthouse was built in 1842 on top of Grant's Hill. It survived the Great Fire. John Chislett built the courthouse, he was Pittsburgh's first proffesional architect. -
The Great Fire of 1845
In 1845, there was a massive fire that destroyed a lot of the city and caused millions in city damages. The fire started as a fire for washing laundry. In theory, sparks from the fire caused a nearby ice house to burn, Conditions of the city, also adn the fire spread, it was a ddry breezy day and there was debris everywhere from factories -
The Rope Was Invented by John Roebling
John Roebling invented the rope in America, he mostly used wire in the design of his rope to suspend weight and then his designs went on to be able to make the Brooklyn bridge -
The Mystery Issue
Robert A. Delany made a newspaper for the soldiers of the Mexican war that was going on at that time. Robert A. Delany was a graduate of Harvard University and published this newspaper. -
First Woman To Dent Man
The first Pittsburgh wonam to make a dent in the man's world was abolitionist Jane Grey Swisshelm, shown with her daughter. Frim 1848 to 1854, she published many different articles including "Pittsburgh Saturday Visitor,"mainly to no further her crusades slavery and for women's rights. Due to her brave actions a law was passed in Pensylvania that allows the right that women can own property. -
Publishing Of The First Call Of Formation For The Republican Party
Gazette editor David N. White published the first call for formation for the Republicans of Pennsylvania party in 1855. He also was a organization in Pittsburgh at this first national convention in February of 1856. The sessions were held near Lafayette Hall on Fourth Street near Wood Street. -
Pittsburgh Dollar Saving Institution
Pittsburgh's Dollar Savings Institution first opened its doors, the building was complted 16 years later in 1871 and still stands to this very day. -
The Rodman Gun
The Rodman Gun was one of the many produced. It is named after Lt. Thomas J. Rodman. It was the largest in the world at it's time. It was produced by the C. Knapp Foundry during the Civil War. Other Pittsburgh factories made other war supplies due to the fact that many soldiers equals many guns. -
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Price of Coke is Dropping Dramatically
The price of coke is dropping dramatically in the pittsburgh area, coke was only selling for 90 cents a ton in the time period that is listed. -
The Pittsburgh Sanitation Fair raised over 320000.00
The Pittsburgh Sanitary Fair raised $322,217.00 for sanitation pupouses and to keep Pittsburgh people clean and disease free. -
Diversity in Pittsburgh
Between 1870 and 1920, the population of Pittsburgh grew almost sevenfold. Many of the new residents were immigrants who sought employment in the factories and mills and introduced new traditions, languages, and cultures to the city. The different cultures gathered in hilly areas such as modern Bloomfield, Squirell Hill, and many other areas were the different cultures headed. -
Duquesne Incline
The Duquesne Incline was built in 1877. It cost $47,000 to build. By the year it had 500,000 passengers "without injury to any one". In an article about it said "Experience in this plane has shown that popular predjudice against this mode of travel has ceased, and on Sundays during the summer 6,000 passengers are carried during the day and evening: the cars ascending and descending as rapidly as filled and emptied." -
Rail Worker Rebellions
On July 19, 1877 a rebellion happened becasue of the wage cuts that the rail workers were getting due to the mass production of rails. When local police and militia sided with them troops from philadelphia were called in to stop the rebeliion. -
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The Gilded Age of Industry
Agaist the backdrop of the gilded age stands the lockout and strike at homstead in1892. In hilly pittsburgh, the contrasts between the haves and the have-nots was evident to all: the city was filling up, with millworkers' frame houses along narrow, terraced, switchback streets, and with elegant mansions onn broad, tree-lined avenues for mill executives and owners. -
Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson said, "If they honor me for the pigmy things I have done, what will they say when they see Pittsburgh finished?" In that statement, he was refferinf to the courthouse and jail. His work replaced John Chislett's courthouse, which burned down in a fire in 1882. The courthouse and jail are one of america's most admired and imitated works. -
Andrew Carnegie "The Gospel of Wealth"
Andrew Carnegie was well known as a philanthropist to the region of Pittsburgh. “In 1889 he wrote "The Gospel of Wealth", in which he asserted that all personal wealth beyond that required to supply the needs of one's family should be regarded as a trust fund to be administered for the benefit of the Pittsburgh community”. -
Pittsburgh loses its h
In 1890,the U.S Board of Geographic Names took the h out of Pittsburgh and at the time it was spelled Pittsburg due to people not knowing the correct spelling for the word burgh. -
Ferris Wheel
The ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Expostion in Chicage, was designed and built by Geaorge W.G. Ferris. The ferris wheel was the fair's biggest atrraction. In the 19 weeks that it was at the fair, it had 1,453,611 passengers pay $726,805 to ride. The wheel was called the "Big Wheel from Pittsburgh." The ferris wheel ha 36 glass coaches, and it was 1250 feet high. At the time George Ferris, lived in a modest brick house at 204 (now 1318) Arch Street. -
Brushton Annexexes Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh gets annxexed by the burough of Brushtown and becomes a city ever more than it was before. -
Battle at Homestead
The Battle of Homestead was actually a strke cause by Henry Clay Frick. The strike was started by Henry Clay Frick, when he had a lockout. The strike is said to be one of America's bloodiest strikes. At the end of the strike, there were 14 dead; 11 steelworkers and 3 Pinkerton guards. Frick sealed off the mill, and brought in 300 Pinkerton guards. No one knows who fired the first shot, but in the end the Pinkertons surrendered and Company hired replacements. -
Modern Pittsburgh
In the 20th century the economy of Pittsburgh was primarily driven by the steel industry and the city had reached a population 321,616 persons. Pittsburgh was becoming a big city and it is still growing to this day in population and in technological advancements. -
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New Century, A World War
As the steel industry continued to grow, many mill and factory workers were having little to no money. The Steel Idustry was dominating Pittsburgh's landscape and climate, the lives of workers and families caught national attention to the Pittsburgh Survey, which was the first national urban area life analysis of urban conditions in the United States. -
United States Steel Coopreration
Eighty-nine executives of carnegie companies all gathered for dinner. They gathered at Schenley Hotel Ballroom. Charles Schwab was afraid that the Carnegie-Rockefeller war would end in disaster, "He pleaded for peace and growth through consolidation." J. Pierpoint Morgan agreed, and he bought Carnegie and 8 other steel firms. -
United States Steel Corp.
Eighty-nine executives of carnegie companies all gathered for dinner. They gathered at Schenley Hotel Ballroom. Charles Schwab was afraid that the Carnegie-Rockefeller war would end in disaster, "he pleaded for peace and growth through consolidation." J. Pierpoint Morgan agreed, and he bought Carnegie and 8 other steel firms. -
Wabash Terminal
The Wabash terminal was located at ferry Street(now Stanwix) and Liberty Avenue. It was a busy travel center during the years of 1904 to 1913. Those were the years of the rise and fall of George Jay Gould's railroad empire. the $800,000 Beaux-Arts palace was an office building until 1953. It was torn down for Gateway Center. It is now the site of Pittsburgh's 7th skyscraper in 1958. -
Luna Park
Luna Park opened on May 25, 1905. It had its main entrance at craig street and baum Boulevard. It had crowds of at the most 35,000 people each night. The people came for aerial acts, band concerts, and the shoot-the-chutes ride.In 1907, a lion escaped and killed a woman. After that happned, the park became less and les popular. Two years later the park burned down, and it was never rebuilt. -
George W. Guthrie
George W. Guthrie was elected mayor in 1906. He was a part of the Democratic Anticorruption platform. He served 4 years and In 1913, Woodrow Wilson made Guthrie ambassador of Japan. Guthrie died there 4 years later. Guthrie had co-authored the Pennsylvania-Allegheny city mercer bill. -
Wireless Phone Experimentations
Dr. Frank Conrad, Westinghouse engineer began experimentation with the wireless phone at 8XK in a garage behing his Wilkinsburgh home. Thus KDKA was born from this experimentaiton. -
King Tutankhamun's Tomb
King Tutankhamun's Tomb opened in 1923 as a public attraction at the amusement park "Kennywood." A year later, Kennywood changed the theme of The Bug House to Tut's Tomb. In 1995, Lost Kennywood was inspired by the shoot-the-chutes ride and surrounding buildings. -
Cancer First Official Diagnosis
Louis Leakey found the oldest possible hominid malignant tumor in 1932 from the remains of either a Homo erectus or an Australopithecus.This tumor was suggestive of a Burkitt’s lymphoma (although that nomenclature was certainly not in use then). Diseases that we know to be rare cancers today have had a long history with the peoples of today and the people sof yesterday. -
Atom Smasher Experiments
Westinghouse announced taht a new atom smasher was going to be built, he wanted to know and solve "much of the mystery sorrounding the structure of matter." The following year a atom smasher appeared in Forest Hills. -
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Civil Unrest and Title Teams
In the 1960's, the Vietnam War and the death of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. brought tumult to dozens of cities across the United States, one of the many was Pittsburgh. By the end of the 1960s, moving into the 1970s, the city would celebrate its proffectional sports teams and new identity: the Steel City and te Smoky City had become the City of Champions. -
1960 World Series
In the final game of the 1960 World Series, Bill Mazeroski hit a home run. He is a player of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they were facing against the New York yankees. The home run won the game. In April of 2008, 57,125 fams voted the home run the greatest moment in Sport's history. -
John F. Kennedy
On October 12, 1962 it was the last of six political visits that John F. Kennedy did in Pittsburgh. He spoke to 8,300 people at the Pitt Field house on behalf of democratic candidates. He didn't speak about what he originally intended to say, instead he talked about republicans. 300,000 people saw him drive from the airport, "open car", this was a year before he was killed. -
Learning Disabilities Association of America Is Established
Learning Disabilities Association of America is established in Pittsburgh to help children with learning disabilities to get the education that they need to survive in the real world. This assosiation is still going on to this day. -
J.W. Abel
J.W Abel becomes the president of United Steelworkers. He was given the gavel by David J. Mcdonald, who he beat in the 1965 election. He came up with the Experimental Negotiating Agreement, in 1973. The Experimantal Negotiating agreement was when the Union agreed not to strike during contract talks. He revolutionized collective bargaining with the steelworkers. -
Act 111
This act is the act that pennsylvania goes by which is the Binding Arbitration Reform and what act 111 goesw by is that police will have their limitaitons when it comes to prosecuting a criminal or striking against any person(s) that has commited a crime. People to this day believe that this reform should be changed so cops don't have to limit themselves when something serious is going on. -
Hill District Riots
There were a lot of riots in the Hill District after the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. happened. The riots resulted in 505 fires, 926 arrests, millions of dollars in theft costs, and trade losses. There were also a lot of costs for police and the National Guard. There was $620,000 worth in property damege. Also, there was a death of a woman in Homestead. -
Pittsburgh Forced Into Act 47
In December 2004, Pittsburgh was forced into an Act 47 because the finances in the city were down. In January 2003 Pittsburgh’s unemployment rate reached 6.8% -
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The Industrial Age For Modern Technological Advancements
These are the greateswt years for technological advancements from architecture, computer science, gaming, and many more technological advancements that we still use today. -
Vote For Best Moment In Pittsburgh Sports History
57,215 ecstaic fans were lined up to vote for Bill Mazeroski's bottom-of-the-ninth homer against the New York Yankees as the best moment is Pittsburgh sports history. -
Alcoa Cuts Jobs
Alcoa, a Pittsburgh based aluminum manufacturer, announced they will have to cut 13,500 jobs locally and globally due to the economy. -
Artificial Intelligence is even more powerful
With massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects and translate speech in real time. Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart, and it will influence what technologies are yet to come in the mere future.
