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Mary Jemison adopted by Seneca Nation.
Mary Jemison she was a captive in the French and Indian war. Her family was ceremonially killed by the Seneca. She was married to two men but only when one of the husbands died on a trip. -
Gen. Forbes wins for British at Ft. Duquesne. French destroy the fort.
The Battle of Fort Duquesne was a British assault on the eponymous French fort (later the site of Pittsburgh) that was repulsed with heavy losses on 14 September 1758, during the French and Indian War.
The attack on Fort Duquesne was part of a large-scale British expedition with 6,000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country (the upper Ohio River Valley) and clear the way for an invasion of Canada. Forbes ordered Major James Grant of the 1st Highlan -
Fort Pitt is built.
(1761-1792) - First established in 1761 during the French & Indian War by British forces in present day Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Named after William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham. Also known as Fort Dunmore. Abandoned in 1792. -
: Pittsburgh’s street plan laid out.
A plan of Pittsburgh was made by John Campbell in 1764, five years before the patent for ... William Wood laid out the portion of Pittsburgh between the Allegheny and ... The streets were laid out in straight lines regardless of topography, the ... -
Washington and Guyasuta make a treaty at Forks of the Ohio
Washington meets with Half-King to build a trading post for Virginia (British) at the Forks of the Ohio 1752-1754
15 May 1752 Washing tries to make a fort at the forks of the Ohio. Succeeding with their trust. -
Pittsburgh Gazette founded by John Scull, 1st newspaper west of the Alleghenies
On July 29, 1786, Scull and Hall released the first edition of a four-page weekly called the Pittsburgh Gazette, the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains. During its first years of publication the paper struggled. Scull experienced difficulty in procuring the materials necessary for publication and in distributing the paper in a region still largely isolated by mountains and a poor road system. Distribution increased after Pittsburgh established weekly postal service with Al -
Pittsburgh becomes a city; Major Ebenezer Denny is 1st Mayor
Beginning with the City's incorporation in 1816, there have been 55 different individuals who have held the post of Mayor in the history of Pittsburgh. There have been 59 administration changes (four individuals held the post during separate terms). Over the years, Pittsburghers became endeared to many of these officials. -
Great Fire destroys much of the city and leaves 12,000 residents homeless
The Great Fire of Pittsburgh, which occurred on April 10 1845, destroyed a third of the city with damages estimated in the millions, perhaps tens of millions of dollars. While having little effect on the culture of the city except to spur further growth, it would provide a temporal reference point for the remainder of the century and beyond -
Martin Delaney, editor of The Mystery
Martin R. Delany, in full Martin Robison Delany (born May 6, 1812, Charles Town, Virginia, U.S.—died January 24, 1885, Xenia, Ohio), African American abolitionist, physician, and editor in the pre-Civil War period; his espousal of black nationalism and racial pride anticipated expressions of such views a century later.he paper won an excellent reputation, and its articles were often reprinted in the white press. From 1846 to 1849 he worked in partnership with the abolitionist leader. -
Stephen Collins Foster
In 1846, Foster moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a bookkeeper with his brother's steamship company. While in Cincinnati, Foster penned his first successful songs—among them "Oh! Susanna," which became an anthem of the California Gold Rush—in 1848–1849. In 1849, he published Foster's Ethiopian Melodies, which included the successful song "Nelly Was a Lady", made famous by the Christy Minstrels. A plaque marks the site of Foster's residence in Cincinnati. -
Andrew Carnegie is a messenger
Carnegie’s big break came in 1849 when he got a job at the O’Reilly Telegraph Company as a messenger boy (his Uncle knew the owner, yet another expatriate Scot). {Aside – Carnegie’s experience was fairly typical. The more daring emigrated to America first. They would send letters home recounting their experiences. The more timid would then emigrate and rely upon the informal networks of fellow countrymen – Scots, Irish, German, etc. – for help in finding housing and work. -
St. Pauls Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is a Church of England cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604.[1] The present church, dating from the late 17th century, was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. -
Pennsylvania Republican Party
The Republican Party name was christened in an editorial written by New York newspaper magnate Horace Greeley. Greeley printed in June 1854: "We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery." -
Felix R. Bronot
FELIX R. BRUNOT was born Feb. 7, 1820, in Newport, Kentucky, where his father, a regular army officer, was located. Elsewhere we have referred to his grandfather, FELIX R. BRUNOT, a physician of early Pittsburgh. In 1821, the family returned to Pittsburgh. The father retired from the army shortly after that, and brought up his family in a reidence standing where the Union Station now stands. FELIX R. BRUNOT was sent to Jefferson College in 1834. -
Henry Clay Frick, eventually known as the “Coke King,” begins buying coal lands.
Henry Clay Frick dominated the coke industry during the late nineteenth century, first as head of his own company, and then as a partner with markerAndrew Carnegie. [He and Carnegie also integrated coke and steel production. His dominance of the coke industry contrasted with the fragmented ownership of bituminous coal mines in western Pennsylvania and more closely resembled the oligarchic control that a handful of railroads exercised over anthracite mining in eastern Pennsylvania (see the marker -
Smith and Porter begins making locomotives in Lawrenceville.
Henry Kirke Porter forms a partnership with John Y. Smith and they call the company Smith & Porter. The two open a small machine shop on 28th Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and begin repairing and building industrial equipment. They receive an order for their first locomotive on the March 4, 1867, and build the "Joshua Rhodes" for the New Castle Railroad and Mining Company. They were to build 43 locomotives together, including the "Minnetonka" which is currently preserved in running c -
T. Mellon and Sons Bank started
The original bank, T. Mellon and Sons Bank, was founded in 1869 by Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), a native of Ireland. One of his four sons, Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937), joined the business in 1874 and proved so capable that the elder Mellon transferred the bank’s ownership to him in 1882. With the bank as the cornerstone of his financial empire, Andrew Mellon (later treasury secretary in the Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover administrations) helped establish Pittsburgh. -
George Westinghouse invents the air brake.
The hydroelectric development of Niagara Falls by George Westinghouse in 1896 inaugurated the practice of placing generating stations far from consumption centers. The Niagara plant transmitted massive amounts of power to Buffalo, New York, over 20 miles away. With Niagara, Westinghouse convincingly demonstrated both the general superiority of transmitting power with electricity rather than by mechanical means (the use of ropes, hydraulic pipes, or compressed air had also been proposed). -
Monongahela Incline
The Monongahela Incline, built in 1870, is located near the Smithfield Street bridge, directly across the Monongahela River from downtown Pittsburgh. It has a length of 635 feet, a height of 367.4 feet, and a grade of 78%. Its lower station is across the street from the Station Square's Freight House Building. -
1875: Carnegie open J. Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock.
1875
Edgar Thomson Works opens.
Carnegie opens his first steel plant, the Edgar Thomson Works, in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The plant is named for the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Not surprisingly, Carnegie's first order is for 2000 steel rails for the Pennsylvania Railroad. -
Pennsylvania Railroad Strike leaves 61 people dead and 150 injured.
When the Civil War ended, a boom in railroad construction ensued, with roughly 55,000 kilometers (35,000) miles of new track being laid from coast-to-coast between 1866 and 1873. The railroads, then the second largest employer outside of agriculture, required large amounts of capital investment, and thus entailed massive financial risk. Speculators fed large amounts of money into the industry, causing abnormal growth and over expansion. Jay Cooke's firm, like many other banking firms. -
Duquesne Incline
The Duquesne Incline, built in 1877, is located just west of the Fort Pitt Bridge, and faces the Ohio River. it has a length of 793 feet, a height of 400 feet, and a grade of 58%. Its lower station is near entrance A to Station Square. The Duquesne Incline offeres some of the most dramatic views of the city and is often used more by tourists for sightseeing. -
Smith Feild Street Bridge
In 1818, a wooden bridge was built across the Monongahela by Louis Wernwag at a cost of $102,000. This bridge was destroyed in Pittsburgh's Great Fire of 1845. The second bridge on the site was a wire rope suspension bridge built by John A. Roebling. Increases in both bridge traffic and river traffic eventually made the lightly built bridge with eight short spans inadequate. The present Lindenthal bridge was built in its place, using the Roebling bridge's stone masonry piers. -
Smithfield Street Bridge
The Smithfield Street bridge (1883) is considered by most to be Pittsburgh's most historically significant bridge for several reasons: 1) it replaced two bridge structures by well-known bridge engineers, Lewis Wernwag and John A. Roebling (creator of the Brooklyn Bridge); 2) it was the first American use of the lenticular (lens-shaped) truss design; and 3) it was one of the first major bridges in the US built primarily with steel, and is probably the oldest extant major steel truss remaining. -
Chattam University
Founded as the Pennsylvania Female College on December 11, 1869, by Reverend William Trimble Beatty, Chatham was initially situated in the Berry mansion on Woodland Road off Fifth Avenue in the neighborhood of Shadyside. The campus today is composed of buildings and grounds from a number of former private mansions, including those of Andrew Mellon, Edward Stanton Fickes, George M. Laughlin Jr. and James Rea. It was renamed Pennsylvania College for Women in 1890, and as Chatham College in 1955. -
Allegheny County Courthouse
The Allegany County Courthouse is the Maryland Circuit court for Allegany County, Maryland, United States. It is located in Cumberland's Washington Street Historic District. Although many church spires dot the Cumberland landscape, it is the Allegany County Courthouse that dominates this city's skyline. The building is prominently sited along Washington Street, which rises sharply from Wills Creek running through the heart of Cumberland. Historically, courthouses in America have been one of the -
Pennsylvania College for Women
Founded as the Pennsylvania Female College on December 11, 1869, by Reverend William Trimble Beatty, Chatham was initially situated in the Berry mansion on Woodland Road off Fifth Avenue in the neighborhood of Shadyside. The campus today is composed of buildings and grounds from a number of former private mansions, including those of Andrew Mellon, Edward Stanton Fickes, George M. Laughlin Jr. and James Rea. It was renamed Pennsylvania College for Women in 1890, and as Chatham College in 1955. -
Homestead Steel Strike
After striking in 1889, Homestead's workers won a three-year contract that recognized the union and provided a favorable wage scale. But both markerHenry Clay Frick and markerAndrew Carnegie agreed that when the contract expired in July 1892, they would break the union and restore their complete control over the mills. -
Ferris Wheel
Burnham's speech was cleverly contrived to produce immediate reaction: he asserted that the architects of America had covered themselves with glory and enduring fame by their artistic skill and original designs for mammoth buildings, while the civil engineers had contributed very little or nothing in the way of originating novel features or of demonstrating the possibilities of modern engineering practice. -
1893: Pittsburgh Pirates the 2nd strongest hitting club
The Pittsburgh Pirates scored more runs in 1893 than any other year in franchise history and they played just 131 games that season. The team wasn’t built on home runs as you would expect from a team that scored 7.4 runs per game for a total of 970 runs. They hit just 37 of them all year. More than any other team in franchise history . -
Carnegie International
In 1895, Andrew Carnegie inaugurated the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, including what is now Carnegie Museum of Art. While many US museums of the time were buying old master collections, Carnegie’s museum was to acquire “the old masters of tomorrow.” In effect, he had created the country’s first contemporary art museum. Invented as a means to build the collection of the newly founded Carnegie Institute, the Carnegie International (est. 1896) . -
Schenley Hotel
The Schenley Hotel, located between Fifth Avenue and Forbes Avenue at the intersection with Bigelow Boulevard, was built in 1898. The hotel, described as "Pittsburgh's class hotel of the early 20th Century, was sold to the University of Pittsburgh in 1956. It is now the school's Student Union building, known as the William Pitt Union. The building is one of the finest pieces of architecture in the Oakland area, a landscape dotted with several early 20th Century landmark structures. -
Luna Park/Kenny wood opens a few years later
Opened in 1905, Luna Park in Oakland was known for its performances, odd attractions and, most notably, its use of electricity. Then after a terrible accident it shut down. Then now it is Kwnown as Kenny wood. -
1st drive-in service station, Baum Blvd
Gulf Refining was the first company to professionalize the service. The decision to open the first station along Baum Boulevard in Pittsburgh was no accident. By 1913 when the station was opened, Baum Boulevard had become known as "automobile row" because of the high number of dealerships that were located along the thoroughfare. -
Jennie Bradley Roessing - suffrage movement
Born in the Pittsburgh area ca.1882, Jennie Bradley was the daughter of John Bradley, a successful tailor. She married and later divorced Frank M. Roessing, a civil engineer. Although these events greatly influenced her devotion to the Woman Suffrage Movement, little documentation exists on this period of her life. Jennie Bradley Roessing's campaign for woman suffrage began in 1904 when she, Hannah Patterson, Mary Flinn, Lucy Kennedy, and Mary Bakewell organized the Allegheny County Equal Right. -
Urban League of Pittsburgh founded
In 1917, John T. Clark surveyed the needs of Pittsburgh's African-American community of the by bringing the National Urban League to Pittsburgh. In 1918, Dr. Francis Tyson and the Pittsburgh Council for Social Services Among Negroes asked that Clark establish an Urban League branch in Pittsburgh (505 Wylie Avenue).The Board of the Pittsburgh Council became the first executive board members of the Urban League. Some of its active members were Dr. Francis Tyson of the University of Pittsburgh. -
Henry Heinz dies
After an illness dating from last Saturday, Henry J. Heinz, founder and president of the H. J. Heinz Company, the largest pickling and condiment manufacturing concern in the world, died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home, Penn and Murtland Avenues. Death, it is stated, was due to pneumonia. -
Liberty Tunnels
When construction began again in 1919, the County Planning Commission determined that traffic from the north portal would interfere with Carson St. Booth & Flinn, Ltd., contractor for the 1904 Mt. Washington streetcar tunnel, the pre-empted Neeld Tunnel and the Holland Tunnels in New York City, was awarded the contract for the Liberty Tunnels in December 1919. -
Mellon Institute
The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was first established as the Department of Industrial Research at the neighboring University of Pittsburgh. It conducted research for firms on a contractual basis; a company would contract the institute to solve a specific problem, and the institute would then hire an appropriate scientist to do the research. The results of the research then became the property of the contracting company. -
Salk vaccine
Polio has probably existed throughout human history. For example, there are references to paralytic polio in Egyptian artifacts dating to about 1000 BCE. However, severe polio was rare in ancient time, because of the hygiene factor discussed above. -
Mellon Square Park
In 1949 he proposed a new downtown headquarters building for ALCOA (now the Regional Enterprise Tower). As a bonus, it would have a nearby underground parking garage capped by a public plaza: Mellon Square, built in 1953-55, designed by Mitchell & Ritchey, landscaped by Simonds & Simonds, and paid for by Mellon family foundations. The Mellon family through various foundations gave a total of $4 million ($38.9 million in 2013 dollars) to help create the park. -
Harvey Haddix, 12 perfect innings, Pgh Pirates
Haddix will always be remembered for taking a perfect game into the 13th inning against the Milwaukee Braves on May 26, 1959. Haddix retired 36 consecutive batters in 12 innings essentially relying on two pitches: fastball and slider.[2][3] However, his Pittsburgh teammates didn't score, as Braves pitcher Lew Burdette was also pitching a shutout.[1] -
Civic Arena; Hill District redevelopment
Civic Arena (formerly the Civic Auditorium and Mellon Arena, nicknamed The Igloo[5][6]) was an arena located in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Civic Arena primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, from 1967 to 2010.[7] It was the first retractable roof major-sports venue in the world, covering 170,000 sq. feet and constructed with nearly 3,000 tons of Pittsburgh steel -
Hill District riots
"There's one thing I found out after spending so much time'' in the Hill District, Robert B. Pease, at the time the executive director of the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority, said in 1967. "Pittsburgh's three biggest problems are education, employment and housing -- in that order ... We forget sometimes that people are poor for only one reason: they don't have any money. A job is the product of an education. -
The Attic jazz club, Walt Harper
Simultaneously with the Crawford's Grill “phase” Harper began putting his business skills to good use by producing sold out "Walt Harper Jazz Workshops" at the Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel. In keeping with the Harper tradition, Walt focused on bringing in the biggest names of jazz into the city. By 1969, Harper was ready for his own jazz spot and opened Walt Harper’s Attic. By this time the word was out that if Walt Harper was involved, good music would follow. -
1st Female Mayor of Pittsburgh
City Council President was the first female mayor. After mayor Caliguiri died from amylodosis in 1988. So the 1st famle mayor was emitted right in. She was so happy that in 1990 point state park in her celebration so she contructed the syphony. -
F1 Tornado touches down on Mt. Washington
Large and dangerous storms have begun to produce tornados and macro-bursts. Twisters are a fairly common occurrance north of the city in places like Butler County, but a Golden Triangle Twister is a true rarity. Prior to 1998, the last recorded tornado in Pittsburgh occurred near Lincoln Place in 1944. The last time downtown Pittsburgh suffered a direct hit was over a century ago, in January of 1889. -
Waterfront shopping development opens
The mall was opened for business in 1999 after several years of planning and development. This development has continued until this day, with numerous expansion and improvement projects going on all the time that only add to its appeal.Currently, the mall is home to almost 80 stores, restaurants and services with options to satisfy the most diverse shopping lists and tastes. Retail outlets cover everything from department store favorites to chain stores and boutiques, with home furnishings. -
Three Rivers Stadium demolished
Sunday marked the end of one of the nation's best-known stadiums – site of one of football's most famous plays and a Pittsburgh pro sports resurgence in the 1970s.Thousands of onlookers cheered the implosion of the 30-year-old home of the Pirates and Steelers. Experts loaded 4,800 pound of dynamite into the mammoth circular stadium last week to clear the way for separate baseball and football stadiums nearby. -
August Wilson died
The cause was liver cancer, said his assistant, Dena Levitin. Mr. Wilson's cancer was diagnosed in the summer, and his illness was made public last month. -
1845
Martin Delany was a radical pre-Civil War abolitionist, black nationalist, explorer of Africa, and veteran of the American Civil War. His father was a slave, and all four of his grandparents had been captured in Africa and brought to America as slaves, but his mother was free, and by law this meant Delany was born free. From earliest childhood, he was told by his parents that his ancestors were African royalty. His family fled north when his mother faced prosecution for educating her children. -
A new metal in town Steel.
In Pittsburgh the new alloy in there. It was steel- said James Parton of Atlantic Monthly.
