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During the mid-19th century, Pittsburgh witnessed a dramatic influx of German immigrants, including a brick mason whose son, Henry J. Heinz, founded the H.J. Heinz Company in 1869. Heinz was at the forefront of reform efforts to improve food purity, working conditions, hours, and wages, [ 45 ] but the company bitterly opposed the formation of ...
Dapper Dan Charities is founded by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editor Al Abrams. 1937 Ohio River flood of 1937. The Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets fold for the final time. October 22: The Pittsburgh Americans football franchise folds; November 20: The Homestead High-Level Bridge opens. The Pittsburgh Panthers football team claim their eighth national ...
Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
Pittsburgh is spelled without the h in its 1816 city charter. Advertisement for The Pittsburg Dispatch from 1876. The newspaper used the Pittsburg spelling from its second year (1847) to its end of publication in 1923. [2] Pittsburgh was so named when British forces captured Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War (Seven Years War).
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
Allegheny County (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ ɡ eɪ n i / AL-ig-AY-nee) is a county in Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, after Philadelphia County.
Pages in category "History of Pittsburgh" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...