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George Washington
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. -
George Washington
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. -
George Washington
George washington Fought General Braddock - General Braddock was killed. He led the way for settlement in Western PA. -
William Pitt the Elder
He was an aggressive prime minister from England, Help win in the Europe and the French and Indian war. -
Allegheny, Mononghela, and the Ohio river
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. -
Marquis Duquesne
Maruquis Duquesne built the fort Duquesne at the Ohio river. The French destroyed the fort just before they took flight. -
John Forbes
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. -
Fort Pitt
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. -
John Scull
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. -
Whiskey Rebellion
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. -
Ebenezer Denny
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. -
John Roebling
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. -
Jane Grey Swisshelm
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. -
Charles Dickens
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. -
John Chislett
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. -
Grant Street
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. -
The Great Fire
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. -
Stephen Collins Foster
Stephen Collins Foster was born on the 4th of July in 1826 In lawrenceville. He wrote 189 songs. -
Martin R. Delaney
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. -
William Peter Eichbaum
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. -
Andrew Carnegie
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. -
St. Paul Cathedral
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. -
David N. White
David N. White was the founder of the republican party. He also was apart of the first national convention held in Pittsburgh. -
The Rodman Gun
It was one of many produced guns during the civil war. Pittsburgh produced it. And it was named after Thomas J Rodman. -
Pittsburgh Sanitary Commision
It was for the war to send medical aid and food to the front lines. -
George Westinghouse
He was 19 when he first obtained his first patent for a rotary steam engine. When he was 22 he introduced the air brake. -
Henry J. Heinz
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. -
Monoghela Incline
It was the city's very first incline. At one point in time the city had seventeen inclines. -
Duquesne Incline
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. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie began to return wealth to the community, through libraries and museums. -
Smithfield street bridge.
Gustau Lidenthal replaced Roebling's bridge. It separated carriage/wagon traffic from horse drawn troleys. -
Henry Hobson Richardson
He designed the Allegheny Co. Huse to replace John Chisletts. Design was admired and copied. -
The Homestead strike
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. -
The ferris Wheel
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. -
Pittsburgh pirates
The Pirates had one ofbaseballs strongeest hitting clubs, and they lost an infielder to the American Association. -
Irene Kaufmann
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. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie built his one man rule on a competive system. Henry Clay Frick who ran carnegies steel mills believed in corpate independence. -
John A. Brashear
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. -
Carnegie companies
Banker J. Morgan bought out carneigie, and other eight other steel firms. -
Luna Park
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. -
George W. Guthrie
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. -
Smithfeild Street
It was a business black between virgin alley and sixth avenue. William E Stieren lived on this street. -
The Homestead Boardinghouse
There was slavic mill workers who worked there. Someone took a picture of the mill workers, which it was taken by Lewis Hine. -
Homestead Grays/National Negro League
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. -
Mellon Institute
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. -
Jennie Bradley Roessing
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. -
KDKA
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). -
Frick Acres
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. -
The frst scheduled KDKA radio broadcast
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. -
Cathedral of Learning
The cathedral of learnign was first known as a prop used to be built. Was part of University of Pitt. campus. -
Depression Village
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. -
LST 750
The LST was launched on memorial day in 1944. The tank landing ship built war bonds. $5 million from Allegheny residents. -
David L. Lawrence
David L. Lawrence was elected mayor. There was a 27 day power shut down power behind the renaissance; he was apart of the change. -
Robert Ferris Prince
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. -
Suburbs
People were moving in out of cities. The suburbs had larger houses on larger lots. Penn Hills wass a surburbs neighborhood. -
Blizzard
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. -
Greater Pittsburgh Airport
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. -
Gateway Center
Old building were demolished "new ones rising". It was a creation of the golden triangle. -
William Steinberg
William Steinberg escaped Nazi Germany after Hitler rise. He worked for NBC orchestra. He turned Pittsburgh symphany into the world leader as the conductor. -
Polio Vaccine
Dr. Salk invented the "Polio Vaccine" in 1954. He in innoculated 137 children from arsenal school. -
Harvey Haddix
He played for the pittsburgh pirates. He had 12 perfect innings, and he was the first pitcher to do so. -
Lower hill redevelopment
Cleared out 95 acres of names and businesses. It created the arena and high rise apartments. In April 1960 the civic arena was constructed. -
World series win
The Pittsburgh Pirates went against the New York Yankees at the World series. Bill Mazeroski hit a winning home run. -
Rachel Carson
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. -
East Liberty redevelopment
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. -
Hill dstrict riot
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. -
Tropical Storm Agnes
Storm Agnes struck Pittsburgh in 1972. It crested the rivers, at 35.82 ft. at where the 3 rivers met. -
Roberto Clemente
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. -
Fountain
The three river fountain soars 150 feet. It incorparates a new for Pitt museum, and of Fort Duquesne in the grass. -
Daily number
Pennsylvania had a new lottery game that people would line up and play outsde of the new diamond market in market spuare. -
Dorothy Six
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. -
Homestead Works
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. -
Andy Warhol museum
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. -
Fred Rodgers
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. -
August Wilson
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. -
Myron Cope
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. -
Steelers win Super Bowl
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. -
Rivers Casino opens
The Rivers Casino is located in Pittsburgh. It opened on August 9 2009. Many people go there to go gamble. -
North Shore Connector opens
The North Shore Connector opened, whcih goesunder the Allegheny river. It is the new link between Downtown and the North Shore. -
Fountain re-opens at Point
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. -
Bill Peduto elected 60th mayor
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.
