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George Washington
George and his allies had to retreat because they were getting shot at.
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William Pitt (The Elder)
Prime Minister of England; because of him England won both in the Europe and in the French and Indian war.
Ch 1 -
Marquis Duquesne
He had planned to build forts, he stopped with the 3rd fort. Fort Duquesne got destroyed by the French.
Ch 1 -
John Forbes
~ From 1758-1759 ~
Forbes named the land we know today as Pittsbugh to Pittsborough, in honor of William Pitt.
Forbes was also a British General.
Ch 1 -
Fort Pitt
The last and largest of the 4 forts that were built by the British and English.
Ch 1 -
Block House
The block house is the oldest building in Pittsbugh. Today (2014) you can find it down by The Point.
Ch 1 -
Outlaw Slavery
Pennsylvania was the first state to outlaw slavery. Mid 19th century debate with it was everywhere.
Ch 3 -
Development of Pittsburgh
~ 1783- 1802 ~
Streets, apartments, markets, and a courthouse were built. Boat builders began the development of Pittsburgh as a city.
Ch. 1 -
Neville B. Craig
~ 1786-1851 ~
Craig was the infuential publisher and author of the Pittsbugh Gazette (1786).
He authored the city's first published history. (1851)
Ch 2 -
Tarleton Bates and Thomas Stewart
Tarleton Bates and Thomas Stewart were in a duel because of a political arguement. Tarelton was killed and Thomas won.
Ch 1 -
Grant's Hill
~ 1816 - early 1900s ~
Grant's Hill was named for General James Grant who died in September of 1858. Grant's Hill is projected from Bluff into the city.
Ch 2 -
Ebenzer Denny
Ebenzer was the first mayor of Pittsburgh. He changed Pittsbugh from a borough to a city.
Ch 2 -
Monongahela Wharf
It was used for boats coming to Pittsburgh for business.
A type of boat that came was called a keel boat. A keel boat is a low boat that transported goods. Instead of it using oars it used a pole.
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Stephen Collins Foster
Stephen was born July 4th, 1826.
He is America's first professional song writer. He wrote 186 songs, many melodic, sentimental ballads. Inspiration came from slave songs, black face minstrel songs, and the African American dialect.
Ch 3 -
Philly to the 'Burgh
Travelers from Philadelphia could cross the state by train to Harrisburg then transfer to packet boats.
Ch 2 -
John Roebling
~1841 - 1847~
John developed the first wire rope, in 1841, on his farm.
From 1845 - 1847, he used the wire rope in the design of the first cable suspension bridge across the Monongehela River to the Smithfield Street.
He was America's most prominent bridge Engineer
Ch 3 -
Fire!
There was a fire that spread out 24 blocks in the middle of the city. It spread eastward beyond Grant st. into Pipetown then burned out on Boyd's hill.
Ch 2 -
Jane Grey Swisshelm
Jane published Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter.
Because of her, Pennsylvania passed a law allowing married women to own property.
Did Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter[ to further her cursades agaisnt slavery and for women's rights.
Ch 3 -
Andrew Carnegie
He became the official of the Pensylvania Railroad
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First train
A crowd gathered at East Liberty to welcome the first train that came through from the East.
1854 a tunnel was built.
Ch 3 -
Benjamin, Bernard, Samuel, and James
Benjamin Jones, , Bernard Lauth, and Samuel Kier all got into iron making.
Samuel Kier left the firm a short time after to refine oil.
JAmes Laughlin, a banker at the time, built blast furnaces in 1859, he later merged with the Jones brothers.
When the firm got reorganized it became the J&L Steel Coportion in 1923.
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David N. White
David White called the first Republican party to order. He is also one of the founders of the party.
Ch 3 -
St. Paul Cathedral
Acclaimed one of the fiinest church buildings.
It was on the corner of Grant Street and Fifth Avenue.
In the 1870s, Mary Cassatt painted a mural in Italy for the Cathedral.
It was thought to be destroyed in a fire in 1877.
Ch 3 -
Pittsbugh Dollar Savings Institution
Nine deposits weere made when it fist opened its doors.
The PDSI is located on Fourth Avenue.
Philadelphia architect Issac Hubs, designed and completed it in 1871.
Designed in classical styles with pilasters lining the walls and a large medallion in the ceiling.
Ch 4 -
100th Birthday of Pgh
On the 100th birthday many Pittsburghers stopped to buy a copy of centnnenal celebration keepstake.
Ch 3 -
Railroads
The rails for the railroads were being rolled out into large quanties.
Ch 3 -
The Rodman Gun
The Rodman Gun was produced during the Civil War by C. Knapp Foundry.
The gun was named after Lt. Thomas J. Rodman, the commander of Allegheny Arsenal, the largest in the world.
Ch 4 -
James Scott Negley
James was a Major General.
He was a veteran of the Mexican war then later the commander of the state militia.
He did a retreat in Chickamauga, he was relieved of his commands.
Ch 4 -
Henry Clay Frick
When Henry was young, around 14, he was earning $3.50 a week as an errand boy.
Five years later, he's buying coal lands, he wanted to make coke.
In the late 1880s the "Coke King", his nickanme, had 10,000 ovens and had 11,000 employees.
Ch 4 -
George Westinghouse
George Westinhouse was 19 when he obtained his first patent, for a rotary steam engine.
In 1869, he introduced the firrst air brakes, first effective means for stopping heavy trains.
Ch 4 -
Henry K. Porter
Henry began producing light switching locomotives.
When he managed to do it 600 locomotives a year were built, until 1939.
Ch 4 -
Mount Washington Incline
The incline attracted 500,000 passengers.
Sundays during summer, 6,000 passengers carried day and evening.
The incline is a working reminder of the 17 inclines that connected the hills and valeeys of Pittsburgh.
Ch 5 -
Riot Law Triumphant
Railroad workers got together to protest wage cuts and lay offs.
On July 21st, a few days later, strikers and supporters directed a barrage of stones and a revolver shot at troops and into the crowd. It killed 20 men, women, and children, and wounding 29.
Milworkers, miners, and other workers got into the whole riot too.
They destroyed dozens of railroad cars and buildings.
When it was over they left 61 dead and 150 injured. Thhey caused $7 million in property damage.
Ch 4 -
Andrew William Mellon
~ 1880- 1902 ~
Andrew became the head of T. Mellon and Sons bank.
His brother Richard B. and him developed one of the great financial empires.
Mellon National bank, incorporated in 1902.
Andrew became a secretary of the U.S. Treasury and an ambassodor to England.
Ch 7 -
The Smithfield Street Bridge
The bridge was built by Gustev Lindenthal.
It was first opened in 1883.
The bridge seperated carriage and wagon taffic from horse-drawn carriages.
The bridge was modernized in 1915
Ch 5 -
John Shoenberger's Mansion
John's mnsion became the Pittsbugh Club.
A few years later it was the Elk's Club.
It got demolished from 1950-1951
Ch 8 -
Pittsburg or Pittsbugh?
~ 1890 - 1911 ~
Pittsbugh was orginally spelled Pittsburg. They went with the majority that had brugh/burg in the name, so they lost the h in 1890.
In 1911 they got the h back so it could be Pittsburgh.
Ch 6 -
Carnegie Steels Homestead Works
Ended with 14 people dead- 11 steel workers and 3 Pinkerton Guards.
In the early morning Pinkerton guards met the steel workers and friends outside the building.
The Pinkerton guards surrendered and were forced to walk through the strikers.
The company hired replacement workers after that.
Ch 5 -
Geoorge W.G Ferris: Ferris Wheel
It's 250 feet high, that is equal to 25 stories.
It was the biggest attraction in Pittsbugh.
In 19 weeks 1,453,611 people paid which is $726,805, they made off it.
It was made by George W.G. Ferris.
Ch 5 -
Pirates
The Pirates were one of baseballs' strong-hitting clubs.
"Louis Bierbauer was the distributed player over whom the Pirates got their name"
Al Buckenburger was their manager for three seasons.
Ch 5 -
Carnegie International
The Carnegie International was founded by Andrew Carnegie.
It brought art to Pittsbugh.
It built a collection of contemporary art.
Today it is the oldest exhibatation of International contemporary art, in North Amreica. It is the 2nd oldest in the world.
Ch 5 -
U.S Steel Corporation
89 executives of Carnegie companies gathered for dinner at the Schenley Hotel.
Charles Schwab, feared the Carnegie-Rockafeller Steel War would have disatrious results.
Banker J. Pierpoint Morgan obliged, buying out Carnegie and 8 other steel firms.
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Luna Park
Luna Park attracted 35,000 people.
Pople came for the Aerial acts, band concerts, and shoot-the-chutes ride into a pool of water.
A menagerie lion escaped and killed a woman in 1907, Luna Park became less attractive.
A fire started in Luna Park and messed it up, they didn't rebuild it after.
Ch 6 -
George W. Gruthie
George was elected mayor in 1906, on a Democratic Corruption.
He served for 4 years as mayor.
1913 Pres. Woodrow Wilson appointed Gruthie ambassador to Japan, where he died 4 years later.
Ch 6 -
Rachel Carson
~ 1907 - 1964 ~
Rachel was born in 1907, in the Allegheny River town, Springdale.
Rachel was a writer, scientist, and ecologist.
She alerted the world to the dangers of misused pesticides.
She began the enviormental movement.
Graduated 1929-1932, she got her masters degree in zoology.
In 1936, she was the scientist and editor for the federal government.
Rachel translated her research into books.
She lated on died in 1964.
Ch 9 -
Pittsburgh Survey
At the Homestead Boarding House, Salvic mill workers were photographed.
They were put in the Pittsbugh Survey, published in 1910, by Russell Sage Fondation.
It helped bring about social reforms both here and other large cities.
Ch 6 -
Gulf Oil
World's first gas drive-in service station.
Pumps were usually on curbs and you would have had to park on city streets.
Gulf Oil founded in 1901, pioneered in many phases of motoring.
Ch 6 -
KDKA
Will Rogers and Ziergfield Follies, had a special broadcast.
1.000 Pittsburghers tuned in to it.
It was the World's first radio broadcast.
Ch 7 -
Tut's Tomb
~ 1923 - 1995 ~
In 1923 King Tut's Tomb was opened.
Kennywood changed their Bug House dark ride into Tut's Tomb because of the opening of Tut.
In 1995, Kennywood made Lost KEnnywood and added Luna Park in it.
Ch 6 -
Liberty Bridge
Liberty Bridge/Tube was completed in 1924.
It was a $6 million project.
County commisioner Joseph G. Armstrong's 2 grandsons undid the ribbon on opening day.
Ch 7 -
Louis Americus's Oyster Bar
Pittsburghers began drinking at midnight, at the bar.
This bar is located in Market Square.
A saloon of the brass-cuspider, swining door vintage.
Ch 7 -
William McNair
William was Pittsburgh's first democratic mayor.
He was a born windmill tilter.
Ch 7 -
Frank Vittor and Henrita Leaver
Henrita Leaver won the Miss America crown.
Leaver posed in a bathing suit fort a statue of her.
Frank Vittor finished the statue and leaving it nude.
Leaver protested against it but Vittor wouldn't budge.
The Jury called it "true and beautiful". Vittor left it how it was and that was that.
Ch 7 -
Pittsburgh's Flood
Streets in the Triangle were filled with water.
Some places it was 20 feet deep.
Transportation was by either a rowboat or canoe.
The 3 rivers had risen to flood stage 112 times.
Ch 7 -
William Steinberg
Steinberg left Germany on Hitler's rise.
He helped form Israeli's Philharmonic.
Ch 8 -
Richard King Mellon
Richard was the one who stood behind Renassiance 1.
He began his career at Mellon bank as a messenger.
He rose to President of the Mellon bank in 1934 when he was just 35 years old.
Ch 8 -
Pittsbugh's help with war
192,000 men and women in armed forces.
5,800 people gave their lives.
4,000 industries made $19 billion of munitions and war goods.
95 million tons of steel for war wage.
Ch 8 -
Pittsburgh Ship Center
Pittsbugh was a key ship building center in Worlld War II .
LSTs (tank landing ship)band other sea vessels were put into the water by hundreds.
Memorial Day in 1944, LST-750s were finached by $5 million of war bonds.
They were launched with a crowd of 25,000 watching.
Ch 8 -
Greater Pittsburgh Airport
Families took their children to see the Arriving and take offs of airplanes coming in and out.
There was a terazzo compass on the floor of the lobby.
There was a mobile,that Alexander Calder created in 1958 for the Carnegie International,hanging in the sirport.
Ch 8 -
Home after War
Crowds of Soldiers, Sailors, and cililians met up.
Downtown streets were empty at 7:02 pm. People then started screaming and the crowd then rushed.
There was a massive amount of people.
Ch 8 -
Fred Rogers
~ 1954-2007 ~
Educator, Presbyterian ministeer, and a consummate gentleman.
Fred hosted the Mister Rogers' Neighbohood for 33 years.
He was on nation's first public television show, it was was signed in 1954.
He died in 2003..xc
In 2008, a memorial statue of Fred Rogers was built, along with a children's park. -
Mellon Square Park
Incorportative public-private alliance.
Richard K. Mellon knew about high finance and industry.
David L. Lawerence knew about government and politics.
5,000 people gathered to hear them dedicate the park.
It has an underground parking lot.
Ch 8 -
Politial Visit
John F. Kennedy stopped here in ittsburgh for his last visit of 6 places.
He addressed 8300 people.
For this he went to Pitt Field House on beehalf of Democratic canidates.
300000 people saw him pass in an open car.
Ch 9 -
I. W. Abel
~ 1965- 1973 ~ Handed the gravel as president of the Untied Steelworkers.
Abel ousted David J. McDonald.
Abel introduced The Enviormental Negotiating Agreement in 1973.
Worked to improve workplace health and safety and gaurntee pensions.
Ch 9 -
Rioting in the Hill District
During 1968 there was a riot in the Hill District it caused 505 fires, a death of a woman in homestead, millions in theft, trade losses, $620,000 in property damage, 926 arrests, and this was all following up from the Martin Luther King Jr. slaying.
Ch 9 -
Walt Harper
~ 1969 - 1980s ~ Walt Haper was a Jazz Pianist
He opened the Attic nightclub in Market Square.
Walt grew up into a musical family.
Walt was a mainstay at the Crawford Grill.
Harper's nightclub, the Attic, was closed down in 1976.
He the opened Harper's Jazz Club in the 1980s.
Both of his clubs fatured top Jazz stars.
Ch 9 -
Politictial Arena
David L. Lawerence died November 21,1966.
Richard King Mellon died Jue 5, 1970.
Mayor Peter Flaherty dominated after the passings of David and Richard.
Ch 9 -
Tropical Storm Agnes
There were four days of heavy rains.
Rivers crested at 35.82 feet, that's more than 10 feet above flood stage.
Point State Park was inundated.
The damage of Agnes was around $45 million.
Ch 9 -
Roberto Clemente
Roberto was the 11th player to make 3,000 hits.
He was with the Pirates for 18 years as a career.
He had a .318 lifetime batting average.
ROberto's death brought people's attention to his other achievemnts in life as a humanitarian.
He passed away at age 38 due to a cargo plane crash off San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was bringing supplies to survivors who were in the earthquake in Nicaragua.
Ch 9 -
Gas Shortage
Essey's gas station is one of few who had gas during the shortage.
This oil crisis happened in 1973. Memebers of the Arab Petroleum Exporting companies refused to ship gas over to America. America at the time was supporting Israel and the APE members didn't support them. Israel was inb a war with Egypt and Syria at this moment.
Ch 9 -
Point State Park
The fountain, The Point, is a 150 feet spray. It was a final component of Point State Park.
Point State incorportated the Fort Pitt Museum into it.
IT also recreaated the Mongahela Baistion of Fort Pitt and the outline.
Ch 9 -
Steeler Celebration?
Steelers were playing against the Vikings.
Art Rooney waited 42 years for a win at the Superbowl.
The celebration that went on included 39 people injured and 233 arrests.
120,000 fans obliterated the motorcade route swarming about coach Noll and his stalwarts.
Ch 9 -
Robert Ferris Prince
Robert is the great-nephew of George Ferris.
Just like George, Robert is also a huge figure in Pittsburgh.
Robert was the Pirates broadcaster from 1948-1975.
He was always kinown as the team's biggest fan. He gave them nicknames.
Robert died in 1985.
Ch 10 -
Daniel Constantine Marino Jr.
Verionica and Dan MArino watched as their son signed a paper to play football for University of Pittsburgh.
Daniel was the star at Central Catholic.
He became the Panther's most heralded recruit.
Ch 9 -
Willie Stargell
~ 1982 - 2001 ~
Leading homerunner in 1970s.
Retired in OCtober of 1982
He's a hall of famer outfielder and first baseman.
Willie played his whole 20-year career with the Pirates.
He's a 7 time all star.
He hit 475 homeruns and drove in 1,500 runs.
Willie died in April of 2001.
Ch 10 -
Dr. Thomas Starzl
Starzl was a researcher, surgeon, and a teacher.
He helped people around the worls for a second try at life.
He was a frontline medical reseach and the highest quality healthcare.
Ch 10 -
Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon was a professor in Carnegie Mellon University.
He was a fixture for 52 years.
His research on people's decisions won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 in economics. His work with Allen Newell also won in the mid-1950s.
Herbert created the first "Thinking Machine".
Ch 10 -
Sophie McConnell-Serio
~ 1988-2007 ~
Born into a family of hoopers.
Won olympic medals in 1988 and 1992.
Suzie earned a 321-86 record as coach for 13 years.
She coached at Oakland Catholic Highschool then in the WMBA.
Inn April of 2007 she was named head women's basketball coach at Duquense University.
Ch 10 -
Sophie Masloff
Sophie Masloff was Pittsburgh's first 3ofemale mayor.
She privatized the aiary, zoo, conservatory, and Shenley Parks' golf course because of the shrinking city.
She was also the first to suggesst an old-fashioned ball park for the Pirates.
Ch 10 -
Mario Lemieux
~ 1997- 2006 ~
Mario retired from the Penguins in 1997.
He came out of retirement to get back on the ice in 2000.
He played for the Pittsburgh Penguins for 17 seasons.
Mario bought the Penguins out when they went into Bank ruptcy in 1999.
He was treated successfully for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Mario created a Mario Lemieux Fondation to fund medical research.
Ch 10 -
Tornado
F1 Tornado came through Pittsburgh.
It went to Mount Washington, Hazelwood, Rankin, and Donegal, Westmoreland County.
Ch 10 -
Guyasuta & George Washington
Guyasuta was the cheif of the Senecas
George Washington was a soldier/the president.
Guyasuta acted as a guide for George, he was leading him to Fort LeBoeuf in 1973.
They becme a copper satue on Mount Washington, it symbolizes a reunion for the two men.
Ch 10 -
Penguins Win Stanley Cup
7 Games were played against the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup. This was Pittsburgh's second championship in about four months. The score was 2-1. It went on from May 30th-June 12th 2009.
ADV -
North Shore Connector
The North Shore connector extends Pittsburgh's Light rail system.
It's free to ride on, no paying is neccesary. The connector let's passengers to and from Pittsburgh's North Shore neighborhood.
The cost to build it was $523.4 millon. It was opened March 25, 2012. -
REOPENED
Point State Park's fountain reopened on June 7, 2013.
It was shut off in April of 2009. they havebeen planning to redo the fountain since 2001. There were $35 million of renovations. New LED lights inside of the fountains, restoreed the outer basin ring, added a disappearing waterfall in the basin, new pumping equipment, incresed the capacity for improvements, there is now a bluestone surface/deck around the fountain, and it's ADA accesible.
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Pittsburgh Duck
The Pittsburgh Duck was a 40 foot duck that was brought here by Florentijn Hofman, the artist of the duck. It was placed under the sixth street bridge but then was moved over to Point State Park. Over 200,000 people came to see the duck, that's like 200 people a day.
ADV -
Bill Peduto
Bill was Pittsburgh's 60th mayor. He worked for 19 years on the Pittsburgh City Council.
Bill made an impact on Pittsburgh by strengthening the Ethics code. He created the city's first Campaign Finance Limits. He also ended No-Bid contracts.
Bill was directly involved in $2 billion in transformation to the city.
