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Pittsburg was established in 1906 as part of a mining operation developed by Buford Pusser coal entrepreneur John Carp (for whom nearby Carp is named). Carp named the village for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , as he hoped it would achieve that city's prosperity.
Pittsburg (also Halbsville) is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Illinois, United States. Located at 38°52′17″N 89°12′42″W / 38.87139°N 89.21167°W / 38.87139; -89.21167 (38.8714354, -89.2117374), it lies at an elevation of 531 feet (162
Mt. Carmel Hospital was founded in 1903 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita, Kansas under the direction of Mother Mary Bernard Sheridan, [2] incidentally the same year as the founding of Pittsburg State University. The hospital's original mission was to serve miners and their families with its first 20-bed facility located between Pittsburg ...
Saint Ives Street city steps in California Kirkbride, Pittsburgh. Photo by Laura Zurowski. California-Kirkbride is a neighborhood on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's North Side. The neighborhood consists of a wedge of land between the railroad tracks at the northern edge of Manchester and a steep hill at the southern edges of Brightwood and Perry ...
This is a list of 90 neighborhoods in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.Generally neighborhood development followed ward boundaries, although the City Planning Commission has defined some neighborhood areas. [1]
The Pittsburgh Cancer Institute was founded in 1985 under the direction of Ronald B. Herberman, MD. [3] [4] In 1990, the center earned NCI designation. [5]The Hillman Cancer Center was opened in 2002 and housed the clinical services for UPMC Cancer Centers and research facilities for the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. [6]
Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is home to over 125 completed high-rise buildings of at least 115 feet (35 m), [1] 32 of which exceed 300 feet (91 m). The tallest building in Pittsburgh is the 64- story U.S. Steel Tower , which rises 841 feet (256 m), was completed in 1970, [ 2 ] and is also the fifth ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]