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George Washington, sent a letter to the governor of Virginia about building a fort at 3 rivers. At the time he was 21 years old and he was a major in Virgina Militia.
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George Washingotn, now 22 Led to Virginia army companies to try to push out the French and American Indians. He wanted to fight for his country. He forced the retreat and lost.
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George washington Fought General Braddock - General Braddock was killed. He led the way for settlement in Western PA.
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He was an aggressive prime minister from England, Help win in the Europe and the French and Indian war.
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These are the three rivers. The three rivers was a good place to buid forts, a "Strategic Location". Pittsburgh began as a fort of the Ohio in the western frontier. It was an easy access to the north and west of Allegheny.
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Maruquis Duquesne built the fort Duquesne at the Ohio river. The French destroyed the fort just before they took flight.
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John Forbes directed the march to fort Duquesne and named land at confluence Pittsborough after William Pitt. He died 4 months after the British took fort.
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Fort Pitt was builtby the british and the French. It was completed in 1761. The fort was in ruins:some of it breaking apart, and sme bricks had been taken of for use of houses.
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John Scull, who is the founder of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was the man who brought a printing press over the mountains to establish the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies.
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Pittsburgh and its tavern were viewed by the rebels as supporters of the federal excise tax on whiskey. They were lanning on burning dow the town but Henry Brackenridge talked them out of it.
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When Pittsburgh became a city, he was the first mayor. Also a war soldier, a merchant, and a housebuilder. in 1781 he wrote a war journal, the surrender of British at Yorktown, Virginia.
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John Roebling Developed the first wired rope in Saxonburg. He used it to design the world's first cable suspension bridge. He also built the Brooklyn bridge.
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Jane Swisshelm was a women who wrote the tsburgh Saturday Visitor. She was against slavery, and her law was passed that married women should rights to own property.
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Charles Dickens was a famous writer, who traveled form Baltimore in 1842. He wrote thst he had found a both the accommodations and the travelers. His adventure ended with great pleasure.
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After the fire the county's new courthouse survived the fire. Who's architect was John Chislett. He also designed the city's oldest office building Burkes building.
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Grant Street was consumed with about 24 blocks, and it spread eastward. Pittsburgh Post Gazette is located on this street. William Price manufactured clay pipes on Grant street.
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The Great Fire was located on Stanwix St. and Boulevard of the allies. There were nearly 1000 buildings and homes destroyed. 2 days after The Geart Fire people began calling Pittsburgh a "Doomed City" after it had been said in the newspapers everywhere. After the fire people began to quickly rebuild.
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Stephen Collins Foster was born on the 4th of July in 1826 In lawrenceville. He wrote 189 songs.
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Martin Delaney was the Editor of the newspaper " The Mystery". He was a doctor who graduated from Harvard medical school. He called for President Polkto accept african-american soldiers into the Mexican war.
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He was the developer of the James O' Hara glassworks. His home was destroyed during the great fire, and so he build his home on 5th Avenue in Oakland.
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Andrew Carnegie was a messanger. While he was Messanging he found $500 and he returned it. At age 16, he was an official for the Pennsylvania raillroad.
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I t was one of the first finest built churches in the United States. A woman name Mary Cassatt painted a mural for the cathedral.
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David N. White was the founder of the republican party. He also was apart of the first national convention held in Pittsburgh.
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It was one of many produced guns during the civil war. Pittsburgh produced it. And it was named after Thomas J Rodman.
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It was for the war to send medical aid and food to the front lines.
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He was 19 when he first obtained his first patent for a rotary steam engine. When he was 22 he introduced the air brake.
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He built a multimillion-dollar food business. He died in 1919, when he did he was suceeded by his sons: Howard as President and Clifford as Vice President. The Heinz building is located at 7009 Penn Ave. in Point Breeze.
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It was the city's very first incline. At one point in time the city had seventeen inclines.
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The Duquesne was built for $17,000. It was attracted by 500,00 passangers by 1880, and 6,000 passengers on Sundays in the summer.
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Andrew Carnegie began to return wealth to the community, through libraries and museums.
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Gustau Lidenthal replaced Roebling's bridge. It separated carriage/wagon traffic from horse drawn troleys.
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He designed the Allegheny Co. Huse to replace John Chisletts. Design was admired and copied.
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It was the bloodiest strike in history. Henry Clay Frick locked out the workers. 300 guards hired to protect the mill from workers, and guards approached on barges.
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Called "a big wheel from Pittsburgh". It was designed by engineer George W. Ferris. It was located on Arch Street in Alleghney city when it was designed.
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The Pirates had one ofbaseballs strongeest hitting clubs, and they lost an infielder to the American Association.
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The Irene Kaufmann Settlement was founded in 1897 to aid immagrants settling which was in the Hill District. It was named in the memory of Henry Kaufmann's daughter when he provided a new building.
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Andrew Carnegie built his one man rule on a competive system. Henry Clay Frick who ran carnegies steel mills believed in corpate independence.
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John A. Brashear was known and honored for his precision instruments and lenses. He was also known as Uncle John, a gentle understanding man that loved children and was loved back.
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Banker J. Morgan bought out carneigie, and other eight other steel firms.
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It was located on corner of Craig Street and Baum Boulevard. It attracted upto 35,000 people. There was a fire at the park, and ever since that it was not rebuilt.
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George W. Guthrie wa elected mayor in 1906, which he served 4 years. He was a mayor on a democratic anticoruption platform. He was appointed Guthrie, ambassador of Japa. He died 4 years later after that.
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It was a business black between virgin alley and sixth avenue. William E Stieren lived on this street.
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There was slavic mill workers who worked there. Someone took a picture of the mill workers, which it was taken by Lewis Hine.
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The Homestead grays/ the National Negro League was a baseball club, and a gate attraction organized by Cumberland W. Posey who was the son of one of the founders of Pittsburgh Courier. The Homestead grays won eight out of nine National Negro League titles.
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The Mellon Institute was established by the Mellon family for industrial research. a couple of years later the family supplied about 10,000,000 for a new building.
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She tried to gain support for women's rights to vote. She drove a "Liberty Bell" truck over the rural roads of Pennsylvania. She was a nationally known suffragist.
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KDKA was started by Dr. Frank Conrad who was a westinghouse engineer. He was experimenting with the "wireless telephone", and behind his house in Westinghouse is where KDKA (Westinghouse Electric Corporation).
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Frick Acres is located in Oakland. It was a gift from the Mellon and it became the site of the University of Pittsburgh's new campus in the 1920's.
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Will Rodgers and Ziegfield Follies they teamed up for a special broadcast for KDKA downtown. About 1,000 Pittsburghers tuned. It was the world's first scheduled radio broadcast.
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The cathedral of learnign was first known as a prop used to be built. Was part of University of Pitt. campus.
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The Depression village sprang in the 1930's between Penn and Liberty. It was next to the St. Patrick's church. It was a jobless army of 15,000 men under father Cox's command, they marched into Washington D.C on January 1932 to appeal to Presidengt Horbert Hoover for relief.
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The LST was launched on memorial day in 1944. The tank landing ship built war bonds. $5 million from Allegheny residents.
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David L. Lawrence was elected mayor. There was a 27 day power shut down power behind the renaissance; he was apart of the change.
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Robert Prince was a known person around Pittsburgh because he was the Pirates broadcaster from 1948 to 1975. He would not intone at the end of the pirates win.
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People were moving in out of cities. The suburbs had larger houses on larger lots. Penn Hills wass a surburbs neighborhood.
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There were about 30.5 inches of snow over night on Novemebr 23 in 1950. There were 5,000 stranded cars, and a national guard called to patrol the streets.
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The airoport opened on May 31st in 1952. Familes brought their children so that they could watch the planes take off and land. 1958 Calder mobile.
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Old building were demolished "new ones rising". It was a creation of the golden triangle.
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William Steinberg escaped Nazi Germany after Hitler rise. He worked for NBC orchestra. He turned Pittsburgh symphany into the world leader as the conductor.
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Dr. Salk invented the "Polio Vaccine" in 1954. He in innoculated 137 children from arsenal school.
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He played for the pittsburgh pirates. He had 12 perfect innings, and he was the first pitcher to do so.
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Cleared out 95 acres of names and businesses. It created the arena and high rise apartments. In April 1960 the civic arena was constructed.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates went against the New York Yankees at the World series. Bill Mazeroski hit a winning home run.
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Rachel Carson was a scientist who wrote a book called "silent spring". She graduated from Pennsylvania college for women. She alerted people about the dangers of pesticides.
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When they rebuilt east liberty there were closed and narrow streets. They put in fountains and parks. There were about 45 million in damage, and in Feb. 1969 they reopened streets and restored parking.
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When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there was a big riot in the Hill District. There were 620,000 property damaged, 926 arrests, and 505 fires.
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Storm Agnes struck Pittsburgh in 1972. It crested the rivers, at 35.82 ft. at where the 3 rivers met.
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Roberto Clemente died at age 38 because he was killed in a plane crash. He was the 11th player to get 3000 hits. He played for the pirates for 18 years.
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The three river fountain soars 150 feet. It incorparates a new for Pitt museum, and of Fort Duquesne in the grass.
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Pennsylvania had a new lottery game that people would line up and play outsde of the new diamond market in market spuare.
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The Dorothy Six was one of the world's largest modern blast furnaces in Duquesne. comparatively high labor caused it all to the decline of the American steel industry.
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Homestead Works employed 10,000 workers in 1989. 10 years later it was known as a shopping center called the waterfront. which was part of a strip mall.
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The Andrew Warhol museum is one of the four carnegie museums. It opened in 1994 and is located on the northside of Pittsbrugh. It shows varies of exhibits of Andy Warhols work.
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Fred Rodger also known as "mister Rodger" was a educated Presbyrian minister. In 2002 he hosted a show called "Mister Rodgers Neighborhood" for 33 years located in Oakland studios of WQED. After he died people put a statue in honor of hom in front of the watersteps.
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August Wilson was a play-writer who basically spent his whole life writing. He died in 2005, and there is a building defined by him.
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Myron Cope use to have people turn up their radios and listen to "The ever-celebrated sand-blaster of the word". He died in Febuary of 2008.
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On Febuary 1, 2009, the Pittsburgh Steelers went against the Arizona Cardinals in the super bowl. They on. The steelers had 27, and the Cardinals had 23.
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The Rivers Casino is located in Pittsburgh. It opened on August 9 2009. Many people go there to go gamble.
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The North Shore Connector opened, whcih goesunder the Allegheny river. It is the new link between Downtown and the North Shore.
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In 2009 the point at state park reopened. It closed because there wasn't enough money much of themoney was spent moving the fountain's underground pump.
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Bill Peduto was elected the 60th mayor of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Democratic Party. in 2013 he defeated his opponent joshua Wander.
