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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Adjacent to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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| | In 1751, the legislators of the Province of Pennsylvania ordered from an English foundry "A Good Bell" for the new bell tower of the state house (now know as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. It was to be the jubilee symbol of the Pennsylvania . . . — — Map (db m66452) HM |
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A celebration of the three rivers and the molten metals that have been major forces in shaping Pittsburgh's industrial history.
Collection of Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
[Additional plaque on the base of the sculpture:] . . . — — Map (db m156088) HM |
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August 18, 1934, Roberto Walker Clemente is born in Barrio San Anton, Carolina in Puerto Rico.
October 9, 1952, Clemente signs with the Santurce Crabbers of the Puerto Rico League.
1954, Clemente plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers' Montreal . . . — — Map (db m156089) HM |
| | At this site in Dec. 1913, Gulf Refining Co. opened the first drive-in facility designed and built to provide gasoline, oils, and lubricants to the motoring public. Its success led to construction of thousands of gas stations by different oil . . . — — Map (db m40872) HM |
| | Moving river cargo along the Allegheny was difficult when low bridges prevented large boats from passing through. The 30th Street Bridge was the last obstruction on the Allegheny that interfered with river commerce. When replaced in 1928, the new . . . — — Map (db m99528) HM |
| | 841 Lincoln Avenue (c.1865)
Restored by
Junior League of Pittsburgh
An Historic Property of
Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation — — Map (db m65162) HM |
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Legend has it that when millionaire industrialist Henry Clay Frick told his 17-year-old daughter, Helen, that she could have anything she wanted for her debutante party in 1908, she asked for a park where the children of Pittsburgh could enjoy . . . — — Map (db m156197) HM |
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Point of Confluence
Nature itself has conspired to render the Ohio hereabouts a place of consequence and importance, and the rendezvous of all the people of North America that are within reach of it.
John Mitchell 1756 . . . — — Map (db m156277) HM |
| | The Pennsylvania Canal across Pennsylvania was an engineering triumph with a spectacular 37-mile railroad portage over the Allegheny Mountains. For half a century between 1820 and the Civil War, packet boats pulled by mules navigated through the . . . — — Map (db m83762) HM |
| | Designed by Benjamin H. Latrobe and constructed in 1814. The Arsenal was used as a military garrison, in the manufacture and storing of supplies during the Civil War, Indian Wars, and Spanish American War. — — Map (db m40874) HM |
| | Allegheny Cemetery Incorporated
1844 — — Map (db m66198) HM |
| | In the early 1700s, the Allegheny River formed a boundary: lands claimed by European nations were to the east, and lands claimed by Native Americans were to the west.
Near this site in 1783, James Robinson, the first permanent European settler . . . — — Map (db m78602) HM |
| | Major strikes by women cotton factory workers protesting 12-hour work-days occurred nearby in Allegheny City in 1845 and 1848. The strikes led to an 1848 state law limiting workdays to 10 hours and prohibiting children under twelve years of age from . . . — — Map (db m40301) HM |
| | Formed September 24, 1788 out of Westmoreland and Washington counties. Named for the Allegheny River. County seat of Pittsburgh was laid out in 1764 and became a city in 1816. A center of the iron, steel and other industries and “Workshop of . . . — — Map (db m40937) HM |
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Allegheny County
Courthouse and Jail
has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of america
1976
National Park Service . . . — — Map (db m156216) HM |
| | Erected to the memory of the 4,000 brave men of Allegheny County. Who fell in the great struggle to maintain the integrity of our union. The eye of God rests upon their graves even when unmarked by man. And their sleeping dust shall arise in the . . . — — Map (db m58142) HM |
| | Tiny star-shaped white flowers give this native plant a foamy appearance. Butterflies and other pollinators visit its delicate blooms. Foamflower leaves were used to make an astringent wash for mouth sores and other wounds. — — Map (db m156276) HM |
| | Allegheny High School
1904
Frederick John Osterling, Architect — — Map (db m58602) HM |
| | Part of the University of Pittsburgh. Chartered 1860; located here since 1912. At the original site nearby, Professor Samuel P. Langley conducted experiments that would lead to the first sustained, mechanically powered flight in 1896. — — Map (db m42219) HM |
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Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Originally Allegheny Post Office
William M. Aiken, Architect 1894-97 — — Map (db m58600) HM |
| | Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War (1861-1865). As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. This propelled the . . . — — Map (db m99059) HM WM |
| | The seeds, buds and twigs of this native plant provide food for wildlife. The Iroquois have used this native plant to treat muscle soreness, bruises, and arthritis. Witch hazel extract is an ingredient in many commercial skin toning products. — — Map (db m156278) HM |
| | A poor Scottish immigrant, Carnegie became a millionaire steel magnate and proponent of the "Gospel of Wealth." Seeking to benefit society with his fortune, he built over 2,500 libraries and endowed institutions advancing education and peace. — — Map (db m40875) HM |
| | Prominent Indian trader and interpreter, employed by the provincial governor of Pennsylvania as an Indian agent in the Western Country. As a trader travelled "To Allegheny" as far as Logstown, (Ambridge, PA). With two other Indian traders . . . — — Map (db m66451) HM |
| | Aria Cultural District Lofts
Originally, Gerber Carriage Company
Rutan & Russell, Architects, 1904-05 — — Map (db m128179) HM |
| | Arrott Building
1902
Frederick John Osterling, architect — — Map (db m67181) HM |
| | A founder of the “hard-bop” school of jazz, drummer Blakey grew up here, and got his start with Billy Eckstine's band. Blakey’s group, “The Jazz Messengers,” featured Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, and Wynton . . . — — Map (db m48883) HM |
| | Co-founder of Pittsburgh’s Black Horizon Theater and the author of a cycle of ten plays that have been hailed as a unique triumph in American literature. The plays cover each decade of the 20th century and most focus on African American life in the . . . — — Map (db m48884) HM |
| | To the south, at Nash and Avery Streets, stood Avery College. Founded in 1849 by Charles Avery (1784-1858), Methodist lay preacher, philanthropist, abolitionist, to provide a classical education for Negroes. — — Map (db m41046) HM |
| | Owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-1932, and legendary baseball leader influential in initiating the first modern World Series, 1903. He led Pirates to 6 National League and 2 World Series titles and was vital to building Forbes Field here, 1909. — — Map (db m40876) HM |
| | Benedum-Trees Building
Thomas H. Scott, Arch., 1905 — — Map (db m67184) HM |
| | This 10-ton Bessemer Converter was originally installed at the A. M. Byers Company, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. It was built by the Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation at its New Castle, Pennsylvania, plant in 1930, and was one of the last commercially . . . — — Map (db m61313) HM |
| | Founded 1808 & known as the African Church. Chartered in 1818. Located nearby in early years, church was site of area's first school for colored children, 1831, and statewide civil rights convention, 1841. Congregation moved to Wylie Avenue, 1872; . . . — — Map (db m42023) HM |
| | African American jazz balladeer and bandleader whose innovative style and sponsorship of new talent helped revolutionize jazz in the 1940s. One of the nation's most popular vocalists, he had 11 gold records. He grew up in this house. — — Map (db m54980) HM |
| | In this house on February 3, 1874, Gertrude Stein was born to Daniel and Amelia Stein. Author, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature.
"In the United States there is no space where nobody is . . . — — Map (db m78335) HM |
| | This tablet marks the birthplace of the aluminum industry in the United States. On the site of this building the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, now Aluminum Company of America, late in November, 1888, produced the first commercial run of aluminum by . . . — — Map (db m79882) HM |
| | Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
1903 — — Map (db m65226) HM |
| | Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Originally Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science
Ingham and Boyd, architects, 1939 — — Map (db m58601) HM |
| | Burke's Landmark
John Chislett, architect — — Map (db m67183) HM |
| | Byers-Lyon House
1898
Alden & Harlow, Architects — — Map (db m65207) HM |
| | January 2, 1921 from Calvary Church for the first time in history a church service was broadcasted by radio wireless by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. — — Map (db m65042) HM |
| | Calvary United Methodist Church
Built 1892-95
Vrydaugh & Shepherd and T.B. Wolfe, Architects — — Map (db m65165) HM |
| | Was present at the defeat of Braddock in 1755 and took part in all the subsequent wars until the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, after which he remained the friend and ally of the United States. — — Map (db m65044) |
| | Hall's invention of electrolytic manufacture of aluminum was first applied to commercial production in 1888 by the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which later became Alcoa. This process, developed here, made the commercial use of aluminum possible. — — Map (db m73628) HM |
| | Pastor Russell formed a Bible study group in Allegheny City in the 1870's; developed it into the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. It became the legal corporation for Jehovah's Witnesses. He lived in the Bible House nearby, 1894-1909; spoke here . . . — — Map (db m40173) HM |
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This portal is dedicated
to
Chuck Muer
Founder of
The Grand Concourse
upon its tenth anniversary
April 29, 1988
— — Map (db m156283) HM |
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Henry Hornbostel, designer
Edward B. Lee, architect with
Palmer, Hornbostel & Jones, 1915-17
[Additional plaque on the building:]
This building erected A.D. 1915▼1917 ▼ For the City of . . . — — Map (db m156235) HM |
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In commemoration of
The Centennial Anniversary
of the U.S. Civil War
and to honor and remember the Poles who served as volunteers in Pennsylvania Regiments
1861 - 1865 — — Map (db m156236) WM |
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Henry Clay Frick Estate
c. 1870, remodeled 1891 - 92
Frederick John Osterling, architect for remodeling — — Map (db m156189) HM |
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The Gilded Age mansion you see today is quite different from the home the Fricks purchased in 1882. After some alterations by architect Andrew Peebles, Henry Clay Frick and his bride Adelaide Howard Childs moved into the 11-room home in 1883. . . . — — Map (db m156193) HM |
| | Pittsburgh’s first successful blast furnace for making pig iron. Operations began near here, 1859, using Connellsville coke as fuel. The furnace’s technology initiated a new era, leading to more advanced furnaces capable of producing huge amounts of . . . — — Map (db m15138) HM |
| | Colonial Place Historic District
George S. Orth, architect
E.H. Bachman, landscape artist
1898 — — Map (db m76367) HM |
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Former P&LE R.R. Central Warehouse
Built 1917, an historic property of
Pittsburgh History &
Landmarks Foundation
— — Map (db m156287) HM |
| | Congregation B'nai Israel
Built 1923
Henry Hornbostel, Architect — — Map (db m65133) HM |
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Corliss Street Tunnel
1914
Stanley L. Roush, architect; D.N. Sprague, chief engineer — — Map (db m101344) HM |
| | Dedicated
August 25, 1996
Rededication
Saturday May 17, 2003
County of Allegheny
Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Incorporated — — Map (db m60475) HM |
| | County Office Building
Stanley L. Roush, architect
1929-31 — — Map (db m65609) HM |
| | A center of Black social life where musicians such as Art Blakey, Mary Lou Williams, John Coltrane drew a racially mixed, international clientele. Here, Crawford Grill number 2, the second of three clubs opened 1943; was owned by William (Gus) . . . — — Map (db m40882) HM |
| | Outstanding as an NAACP organizer, Mrs. Lampkin was its National Field Secretary, 1935-47. President, Lucy Stone Civic League, 1915-65. A charter member, National Council of Negro Women, and Vice President, The Pittsburgh Courier. She lived here . . . — — Map (db m52128) HM |
| | David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1946 to 1959 and Governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963, was born in the Old Point District, now Point State Park, on June 18, 1889. As Mayor and Governor, he provided the public leadership which . . . — — Map (db m43570) HM |
| | Diplodocus carnegii lived 150 million years ago, when dinosaurs dominated the land. Carnegie Museum paleontologists first discovered the remains in Wyoming on July 4, 1899. A new species, the dinosaur was named after Andrew Carnegie, the museums . . . — — Map (db m99165) HM |
| | Community activist who founded Neighborhood Housing Services in 1968 A model of resident-led community development, it inspired a national movement and led to the creation of NeighborWorks America. Richardson was a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh’s . . . — — Map (db m141861) HM |
| | Historic Landmark The Duquesne Incline - 1877Built by Samuel Diescher, Engineer for Kirk Bigham & Associates Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation — — Map (db m8859) HM |
| | Founded by Holy Ghost Fathers from Germany in 1878. Incorporated 1882 as the Pittsburgh Catholic College. Named Duquesne University in 1911, this Catholic institution has served students of many faiths in liberal arts and professional studies. — — Map (db m35486) HM |
| | Eberhardt & Ober Brewing Co. brewed beers in accordance with the German beer purity law. Current home of Penn Brewery.
16. E & O Brewery
800 Vinial Street
-1884- — — Map (db m123171) HM |
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Pittsburgh's great baseball tradition began here more than a century ago. Pittsburgh and Allegheny (now the North Side) were twin cities that played out their local rivalry through "turf sports." The first ball park was an exhibition ground built . . . — — Map (db m156084) HM |
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Before Henry Clay Frick gave the City of Pittsburgh 150 acres to create Frick Park, the land — formerly called the Gunn Hill Tract — was owned by the Wilkins family. The Honorable William Wilkins (1779 - 1865) was a prominent . . . — — Map (db m156131) HM |
| | East Liberty Presbyterian Church
Built 1931-1935
Cram & Ferguson, Architects — — Map (db m122315) HM |
| | “Men…with but the thought of gain and gold were dreaming of tracks and trains, of massive walls and wreathing smoke from towering chimneys, while we dreamed of fame and power, of peaceful paths where once was strife, of space and breeze, of . . . — — Map (db m99061) HM |
| | James Laughlin, one of the founders of Jones & Laughlin, constructed the first Eliza Furnace, a stone blast furnace for smelting iron. Built in 1858 before the Civil War, Eliza marked the city's emerging iron and steel industry and was the first . . . — — Map (db m100347) HM |
| | Has Been Designated A
National Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America.
Henry Hobson Richardson, one of America's premier architects, designed this church (1884). . . . — — Map (db m65167) HM |
| | Epiphany Roman Catholic Church
1904
Edward Stotz, Architect
John T. Comes, Interior Designer — — Map (db m65607) HM |
| | The flowers and berries from this widespread native plant feed pollinators, birds, and many mammals. People used the roots for medicine long before the French built Fort Duquesne here at the Point. — — Map (db m156274) HM |
| | Family Court Facility, Court of Common Pleas
Originally Allegheny County Jail
Henry Hobson Richardson, architect
1884-86 — — Map (db m65613) HM |
| | Riverboat pilot Holmes Harger operated a steamboat ferry on 22nd Street. Not only did ferries provide passage across the rivers but the boats also traveled to and from landing sites all along the rivers. Before the ferries, people crossed on foot at . . . — — Map (db m152181) HM |
| | On the hill just west of here, the first known astronomical observatory with an aluminum dome was erected in 1930. Designed & built by Pittsburgh amateur astronomers led by Leo J. Scanlon, the Valley View Observatory stood beside his Van Buren St. . . . — — Map (db m35633) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m40172) HM |
| | This State's bituminous coal industry was born about 1760 on Coal Hill, now Mount Washington. Here the Pittsburgh coal bed was mined to supply Fort Pitt. This was eventually to be judged the most valuable individual mineral deposit in the United . . . — — Map (db m48882) HM |
| | First Muslim Mosque of Pittsburgh
Originally, Wylie Avenue Branch
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Alden & Harlow, architects, 1899 — — Map (db m78473) HM |
| | On November 12, 1892, at Recreation Park, a few blocks northwest of here, the Allegheny Athletic Association defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0. The winning touchdown was scored by William "Pudge" Heffelfinger, who received $500 for playing. . . . — — Map (db m39909) HM |
| | First United Methodist Church
Weary and Kramer, H. Wagoner, Architects
1893-95, 1952 — — Map (db m65135) HM |
| | In October 1903, National League champion Pittsburgh played American League champion Boston in major league baseball's first modern World Series. Boston won the best-of-9 series, 5 games to 3; prominent players included Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner and . . . — — Map (db m108595) HM |
| | The first all steel and concrete ballpark in the nation, Forbes Field was home to the Pirates, site of four World Series in 1909, 1925, 1927, and 1960 and two All-Star games. Hosted the Homestead Grays, Steelers, and Pitt Panthers, as well as . . . — — Map (db m40877) HM |
| | Fort Duquesne
End of Forbes Road
Occupied by General Forbes
November 25, 1758 and by him named
Pittsburgh.
His victory determined the destiny of the
Great West and established Anglo-Saxon
supremacy in the United States.
"His name . . . — — Map (db m42022) HM |
| | This tablet marks the site of a giant oak which stood on the northerly side of the road built in 1758 by Brigadier-General John Forbes on his military expedition against the French and Indians at Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh).
On November 25, . . . — — Map (db m71947) HM |
| | (Right side of entrance)
Forks of the Ohio
Fort Pitt Block House
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
(Left side . . . — — Map (db m40336) HM |
| | This marks the exact site of Fort Duquesne, built by the French in 1754
The Fort was destroyed by the French on the approach of the English Army in 1758 — — Map (db m43572) HM |
| | Stood on this site. It was completed in 1792. Built to protect Pittsburgh against Indian attacks and to serve as a chief supply base for General Wayne's army from 1792-1794. Reactivated during the War of 1812. Site sold in 1813. — — Map (db m40885) HM |
| | On November 15, 1881, in nearby Turner Hall, a convention was held to form the organization which became the American Federation of Labor. Soon it was the nation's largest labor federation. It became part of the merged AFL-CIO in 1955. — — Map (db m40940) HM |
| | Near here on November 14, 1938, the first convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations was held. 34 international unions were represented. Pittsburgh's Philip Murray was president from 1940-1952. — — Map (db m40175) HM |
| | On Feb. 4, 1896, sixteen delegates met at Moorheads Hall here to form the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers. Active in the struggle for health and safety standards; by 1996 it had 140,000 . . . — — Map (db m40936) HM |
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Pittsburgh industry boomed 1890 and 1910, leading to the development of Pittsburgh's "Wall Street," the Fourth Avenue financial district. Growth of the district was first spurred by the flow of corporate income of the burgeoning iron and steel . . . — — Map (db m156258) HM |
| | This memorial is dedicated in sincere tribute to the living and dead whose valiant efforts and unselfish sacrifices have made America great. God grant that the liberty of humanity won only by brave souls and vigilantly guarded, shall live on with . . . — — Map (db m100468) WM |
| | Distinguished journalist, one of the first two African American accredited correspondents during World War II. He covered the “Buffalo Soldiers” and “Tuskegee Airmen,” reporting from India, Burma, and China. Later, City . . . — — Map (db m40886) HM |
| | Pittsburgh sculptor whose subjects included American presidents and public figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Honus Wagner, and Mark Twain. He devoted his life to sculpting and teaching, and founded the city’s Society of Sculptors. An Italian . . . — — Map (db m40888) HM |
| | Office and Studio
228 Isabella Street
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places
By the United States Department of The Interior — — Map (db m65001) HM |
| | Never to be forgotten....
This plaque honors the visionaries of the Hill District's Freedom House Ambulance Service - founders, staff, medical advisors, funders, and supporters--for their significant contributions to emergency medical . . . — — Map (db m78474) HM |
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This park is a legacy of industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his daughter Helen. From modest beginnings — he was born to a Mennonite farmer and whiskey distiller in 1849 — Henry Frick became one of America's most influential and . . . — — Map (db m156155) HM |
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Frick Park is a place of wonder and enjoyment, thanks to its many strong partnerships and dedicated supporters. Chief among them are the City of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, and scores of . . . — — Map (db m156186) HM |
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The land that Henry Clay Frick bequeathed to the City in his will was re-dedicated as the Frick Woods Nature Reserve on Earth Day 1991. Frick's wish that the people of Pittsburgh have an undeveloped wildlife area to enjoy has been realized in . . . — — Map (db m156125) HM |
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