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George Washington describes to the govenor of Virginia the value of the Forks of the Ohio.
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When the Virginans start building the French don't like it. So they kick them out so they can't build at the Forks. The French then build Fort Duqesne.
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Virginans start battle of the Monongahela. General Braddock is killed in the battle. The Virginians take his body so it doesn't get defiled.
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Mary Jemison and her family get captured. After a while the Native Americans decided to narrow out the group so thy could move faster. Mary and a little boy got out. She had to watch her family get killed and scalped.
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Mary Jemison is adopted by the Seneca after seeing her family die. She lives there for a while before getting married to Shininjee.
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General John Forbes named the area near Fort Duquesne Pittsbourgh after William Pitt the Elder of the area...
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Fort Pitt is built. It is finished being built in the Forks of the Ohio.
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While Pittsburgh was becoming a town John Scull came. He traveled the whole way with a printing press. He made our 1st newspaper.
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Pittsburgh's first iron furnace is built now by George Anschutz
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Pittsburgh is officially named a town
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Joseph McClurg develops the first foundry in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh is official named a borough.
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Pittsburgh finally becomes a certified city. Major Ebenenzer Denny was the 1st Mayor.
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Stephens Collins Foster was born today
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In Early April a Huge fire broke out in the City it left many devastated. It leaft over 12000 residents homeless.
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Martin Delaney is the editor of the Mystery Newsletter
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Joe Roebling Smithfield Street bridge
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Pittsburgh Dollar Savings Institution opens
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Jones & Laughlin (eventually J&L Steel) begin building blast furnaces on the Monongahela River.
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Rodman Gun produced in Pittsburgh
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Almost a hundred people, mainly women and young girls, die in Allegheny Arsenal explosion in Lawrenceville.
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Henry Clay Frick, eventually known as the “Coke King,” begins buying coal lands.
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Smith and Porter begins making locomotives in Lawrenceville.
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T. Mellon and Sons Bank started
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George Westinghouse invents the air brake.
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United States Board on Geographic Names said that any towns or cities with burgh must be spelled without the "h"
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the Us Steel is formed when 88 executive members meet for dinner
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The Pirates go to and WIN the WORLD SERIES. WOO GO BUCS
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Due to protests the United States Board on Geographic Names reverses its decision, and city becomes officially Pittsburgh.
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In 1946 Morris Berman caught a picture of Mayor David L Lawrence napping at the desk in a time of exhaustion
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It snowed 30 inches in the great blizzard of 1950
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a photographer named Clyde Hare took a picture of Spring Hill and Troy Hill
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Homestead Works officially closes down
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The Homestead Works is torn down and the new shopoing district called the Waterfront is built over it.
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Mario Lemieux comes out of retirement and returns to the Pittsburgh Penguins
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The Three Rivers Stadium is demolished and PNC park begins building...
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Pittsburgh steelers win Super Bowl XL and Jerome Bettis.
