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George Washington
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ultimatly led two companies such as Virginia into the Great Meadows in attempt of knocking the French and their American Indian allies out of position. -
William Pitt the Elder
He was prime senastor of England, because of him they had a victory over Europe, French, and Indian war. -
Marquis Duquesne
Duquesne's plan was to build forts, but he stopped after the make of the 3rd fort, Fort Duquesne. The French then destroyed it. -
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Pittsburgh
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John Forbes
Forbes named the land Pittsborough in honor of William Pitts. He was also a British general. -
Fort Pitt has been buit.
Fort Pitt was the last, and largest built of 5 forts built by the British and French. -
Stephan Foster
Was thought to have been indpired by Charles Dickens 1854 story "Hard Times" in Coketown.
He wrote the song "Hard Times Come Again No More." -
George Anschutz
Anschutz built the world's first iron furnace in the year of 1792. -
Grant's Hill
Grant's Hill of the city, made in appreciation for General James Grant who was allegedy killed around September of 1958. -
Major Ebenezer Danny
He was the first mayor of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was then changed from a borough to a city. -
Monongahela Wharf
This was used for boats coming to Pittsburgh or for other certain types of business. -
Nevil B. Craig
Craig was a Publisher, and Editor for The Post Gazette. He was aslso the Author of the City's first published History in 1851. -
John Roebling
Roebling had developed the first wire rope in 1841. He then adapted it to the canal aqueduct across The Allegheny River.
around 1845-1847, he used wire rope for the world's first cable suspension bridge across the Monogehela River at Smithfield St. -
Charles Dickens
He took a packet boat from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. He wrote in his notes, . -
A Great Fire
This huge fire traveled for about 24 blocks. From Grant Street into Pipetown. At last, it burned itself out alongside Boyd's Hill. -
Martin R. Delany
He wrote the paper called The Mystery.
He was the first African American in American history to be a field officer to serve in The Civil War,
He also graduated from Harvard Medical School. -
William Kelly/Henry Bossemor
Kelly had experimented with a new kind of metal in 1847.
In England, Bossemor did elaborate steelmaking using Kelly's process. -
Jane Grey Swisshelm
Swisshelm published the Pittsburgh's Saturday visitor defending slavery and women's rights.
Paid off from such good work she had done, Pennsylvania passed a law that now allowed married women to own property. -
David N. White
White published first call for formation of a Pennsylvania republican party. He was also the founder of the National Party First National Convention. -
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Edwin L. Drake
Had brung in the first sucessful well in 1859. It was then transported down the Allygheny River by flatboat in 1869. Oil traders met and they did business with the oil boats on Duquesne Way Wharf. There were millions of barrels per day by 1885. -
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The Rodman Gun
This gun was named for L.T. Thomas J. Rodman. He was commander of the Allygheny Arsenal. This was the largest in the world. -
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Henry Clay Frick
When Frick was 14 he earned $3.50 weekly as an errand boy for a store. He bought coal lands and was insistent on making coke. in 1863 coke reduced to 90 a ton taking many companies out. in the 1880's, 10,000 ovens to 11,000 and so on. -
Henry K. Porter
Porter began manufacturing light switching locomotives in a Lawerenceville plant under the given name of Smith and Porter. Over the years the firm continued making locomotives, anywhere to as much as 600 a year were manufactured until 1939 before they really entered all of the success and authority. -
James Parton
On this date, Parton wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that it would define the story for the next coming 120 years. -
George Westinghouse
Westinghouse was 19 when he recieved his first patent for a rotary steam engine. in 1869 when he was 22, he ultimatly introduced the airbrake, which was the first potent, meaning to stop heavy trains. -
Pittsburgh Dollar Saving Institution/ Isaac Hobbs
The building was designed by Isaac Hobbs, architect. This building was completed in 1871 and it still stands to this day. The red sandstone is the oldest intact in Downtown Pittsburgh. -
Mount Washington Duquesne Incline
The incline was built for around $7,000.00.
By 1880 it attracted over 500,000 people with no injuries to be reported. in the summer, there would be sometimes be up to 6,000 passengers a day and an evening using this way of transportation. -
Riot Law Triumphant
After strikers and their supporters lead a bombardment of stones and revolver shot at the troops firing into the crowd killing 20 men, women, and children and 29 wounded. -
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Andrew William Mellon
Mellon became had of T. Mellon and Sons Bank. From here, he and his brother, Rcihard B both shared the same interests in coal, coke, steel, aluminum, oil, railroads, etc.. This led to them developing one of the worlds great financial empires around the Mellon National Bank. (1902) Later in his life, Mellon was secretary of U.S. Treasury and embassader of England. -
Thomas Mellon
Mellon attended Western University. He was a judge for a good 10 years. After being a judge Mellon opened T.Mellon and Son's Bank on Smithfield Street. This led to backing Pittsburgh's industrial growth. -
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Allegheny County Courthouse
The courthouse rapidly came to be the most admired of all the America's architectual works. It was built to replace John Chislett's courthouse which was destroyed by a fire in 1882. -
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Smithfield Street Bridge
The bridge was desgined by Gustav Lindental. It opened in 1883. It's purpose was to seperate traffic accordingly, such as carriages and wagons seperated from the horse-drawn trolleys. This was how it functioned until it was rearranged in 1915. It was completed around the 1990's with new coat of original paint with six copper finals on the portals. -
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Pittsburgh Female College
The collge was established in 1868, made for giving women oppertunities for better education. The name was changed to Pennsylvania College for Women, and once again changed to Chatham College honering William Pitt for first earl of chatham. Then in 2007 it was changed to Chatham University. -
The Gazette
They observed interior straps in which a pessenger could hold onto and ride with no stress its even as if you were sitting. -
Andrew Carnegie
With him knowing that most workers were pulling 12 hour shifts 6 or 7 days a week Carnegie began to give some of alot of his wealth to the community having public libraries and museums. -
Henry Clay Frick
This was one of the most crazed strikes in American labor history. In result, it ended with at little 14 dead,11 steelworkers and 3 Pinkerton guards. -
George W.G, Ferris
Ferris built the big wheel from Pittsburgh with to be proved the fairs biggest attraction in the time of 19 weeks with 1,453,611 customers paid a big $726,805.0. It had 36 enclosed couches with glass windows. -
Andrew Carnegie
He founded "Carnegie International", for masses of the people. It is the oldest exhibition of international contempory art in North America. It is the second oldest in the world. -
United States Steel Corporation
On the eve formation 89 executives of Carnegie companies came together for dinner in the Schenley Hotel ballrom. -
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Frank Leslie's Weekly
This was an issue dovoted to Pittsburgh which included the farmer's bank and Frcik buildings. Pittsburgh had the historic spelling updated in 1911. -
Luna Park
The park opened on this day. On days it attracted up to 35,000 people nightly who came for the aerial acts, band concerts, and more. a lion had got out and killed a woman. Ever since this occurance its popularity went down greatly. There ended up being a fire and the park was not rebuilt. -
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George W. Guthrie
Guthrie was elected for Mayor. He served as Mayor for 4 years. He died in Japan 4 years after President Woodrow Wilson cambassador to Japan. -
A Pittsburgh Survey
This was one of the first and most completed analysis of urban conditions in the United States. It was funded by the Russel sage foundation with almost 70 researchers with a photographer Lewis Hine. lastly, they had an artist Joseph Stella. -
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Rachel Carson
Carson was born in 1907. She was born in the Allygheny River town of Springdale, growing up in a rural setting. She was a writer, scientist, and ecologist. She even announced to the world to the dangers of pesticide misuse, beginning the modern enviormental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring. She graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929. In the following 3 years she got her master's for zoology. 15 year career as a scientist, and edtitor for the federal goverment. -
Gulf Oil
They opened the World's first drive in station on December 1, 1913. Gas pumps were out on the curves, and vehicles were parked to be serviced. -
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Andrew William/Richard Beatty Mellon
Mellon Institute for Industrial Research was established. (1913)
In the future they supplied just about $10 million for a new building. -
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Jennie Bradley Roessing
In hope of gaining support for women's voting, she drove a liberty bell truck ovethe road of Pennsylvania, traveling and speaking in all 67 countries. -
Urban League of Pittsburgh
They put together the Lawerenceville Community Uplift Club. There were 35 steelworkers, wifes caring for the sick, and attending sponsered events. -
Henry Clay Frick
Frick ran Carenegie's Steel Mills. He believed in corporate interdependence and rule by directors, this eventually led to a long field. He also had Frick of Art and an Historical Center. -
80th Infantry Division
The soldiers paraded on Penn Avenue after a year in France Enright Theater named for Thomas F. Enright, who was the first American soldier killed in the war. -
Will Rogers/ Ziegfield Follies
They teamed up for a broadcast from KDKA's first downtown studio. 1,000 people from Pittsburgh tuned into crystal sets to KDKA. -
Dr. Frank Conrad
Conrad, in 1916 began experiementing with the wireless telephone. This eventually led to amateur station 8XK in a garage, just behind of his home. -
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Kennywood Park
After the opening of King Tutankhamen's tomb, the park changed the theme of its bug house dark ride to King Tut's Tomb the next year.In the year 1995 Lost Kennywood was born in additon from Luna Park. -
Richard King Mellon
Mellon was the man who stood behind Renaissance I. He then begun his Mellon Bank career as messenger. He eventually became president when he was 35 years old. -
Henrietta Leaver
Leaver won the Miss America crown.
Later, she posed in a bathing suit for scultpor Frank Vittor. Though she declined the option, Vittor still composed the staue as nude. After it's success, she dropped her declined thoughts. -
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is the day Roosevelt came to town. He came to inspect the Homestead works and Mesta Machine plant. -
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George Ferris Prince
He was the engineer George Farris's great-nephew. Prince was a Pirates broadcaster from 1948-75. He did so again just before his deather in 1985. -
John H. Moreland
This was when Moreland was in his 70s. He tended to vegetable gardens in an empty lot. -
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University of Pittsburgh
In this period, they expanded just about $35 million on seven new buidlings. They also bought more than $12 million in real estate. They put together a master plan that included six to eight more new buildings. -
Robert C. Schmertz
Schmertz was grandfather and namesake of the architect who wrote and sang songs such as "Monongahela Sai." -
Harvey Haddix
Haddix became the first pitcher in baseball history by throwing 12 perfect innings right before being beaten by a double off the bat of Joe Alcock in the 13th inning. Alcock was the Milwaukee Braves first baseman. -
Gen. Matthew B. Rideway
Rideway was a former U.S. Army chief of staff. He led American forces in Europe and Asia. He also chaired the board of Mellon Institute for the next 5 years. He retired in 1960, He passed away when he was 98 years old in his Fox Chapel home. -
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy made the last of his six visits here. He addressed nearly 8,300 people at the Pitt Field House, because of Democratic candidates. -
Walt Harper
Harper was a jazz pianist who helped bring life back into the Market Square, including the opening of his Attic Nightclub. -
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Suzie McConnell-Serio
She competed for the Cleveland Rockers against the Washington Mystics in an August of 2000 game, briefly after she notified her retirement. She won Olympic medels in 1988 and 1992. In April of 2007 she had been named head of women's basketball couch. -
Mario Lemieux
When Lemieux was retiring, he watched his banner was being raised to the ceiling of the Civic Arena. He returned briefly in 2000, but retired in 2006. He had major Health problems, but still was a Penguin for 17 seasons. -
Fred Rogers
He hosted Mister Roger's Neighborhood for 33 years in the Oakland studios of WQED. He was also an educater and Presbyterian minister. -
Jerome Bettis
in February of 2006, it was Bettis's final season of being in the Steelers running back, being a Lombardi trophy winner also. He helped the team win 21-10 over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. -
Bill Mazeroski
Mazeroski was ecstatic after his 1960 World Series winning home run. They were playing against the New York Yankie.
