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Fort Pitt Museum is an indoor/outdoor museum that is administered by the Senator John Heinz History Center in downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers , where the Ohio River is formed.
A view of the Fort Pitt Museum from Mount Washington; its structure is a recreation of a bastion of Ft. Pitt. In the 20th century, the city of Pittsburgh commissioned archeological excavation of the foundations of Fort Pitt. Afterward, some of the fort was reconstructed to give visitors at Point State Park a sense of the size of the fort.
Elmer H. Grimm Sr. Pharmacy Museum: Oakland: Medical: Historic pharmacy displays, part of the University of Pittsburgh: Fort Pitt Museum: Downtown: Open air: Fort Pitt's role during the French & Indian War, American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of Pittsburgh, administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Heinz History Center seen from the Strip District in Pittsburgh in July 2007. In 1879, a club called Old Residents of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was founded. In 1884, leaders changed the organization's name to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (HSWP); it has been operating continuously since then and is the Pittsburgh region's oldest cultural organization.
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Fort Pitt from Fort Amherst, 1838. The tower (centre) and blockhouse (right) are now demolished, but the hospital building (left) is extant. Fort Pitt is a Napoleonic era fort on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester, Kent. A fort on the site was proposed as early as 1779 by Hugh Debbieg, then Chief Engineer at Chatham.
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse [6] or Bouquet's Redoubt [7]) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh.It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, [8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".
Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), on the site of present-day Pittsburgh; Fort Pitt (Amtrak), former train operated between Pittsburgh and Altoona; Fort Pitt Blockhouse, a structure built in support of Fort Pitt; Fort Pitt Boulevard; Fort Pitt Brewing Company, active 1906 to 1957; Fort Pitt Bridge; Fort Pitt Elementary School; Fort Pitt Foundry ...