SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH
AUTHOR OF "OLIVER CROMWELL: A HISTORY," "PENRUDDOCK OF THE WHITE LAMBS," "JOHN MARMADUKE," "BEOWULF: A POEM," ETC.
PRINTED AT
THE DE VINNE PRESS
NEW YORK
1908
Copyright, 1908, by
Samuel Harden Church
CONTENTS
PAGE
HISTORICAL [13]
INDUSTRIAL [79]
INTELLECTUAL [89]
INDEX [127]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
George Washington, the first Pittsburgher Frontispiece
PAGE
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham [26]
Plan of Fort Pitt [31]
Henry Bouquet [32]
Block House of Fort Pitt. Built in 1764 [33]
Anthony Wayne [41]
Conestoga wagon [44]
Stage-coach [46]
Over the mountains in 1839; canal boat being hauled over the portage road [47]
View of Old Pittsburgh, 1817 [50]
Pittsburgh, showing the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers [80]
The Pittsburgh Country Club [88]
Panther Hollow Bridge, Schenley Park [93]
Entrance to Highland Park [97]
The Carnegie Institute [101]
Court-house [104]
Zoölogical Garden in Highland Park [107]
Carnegie Technical Schools (uncompleted) [111]
Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women [115]
Design of University of Pittsburgh [119]
Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh [123]
Phipps Conservatory, Schenley Park [125]
PREFACE
Some ten years ago I contributed to a book on "Historic Towns," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York and London, a brief historical sketch of Pittsburgh. The approach of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Pittsburgh, and the elaborate celebrations planned in connection therewith, led to many requests that I would reprint the sketch in its own covers as a souvenir of the occasion. Finding it quite inadequate for permanent preservation in its original form, I have, after much research and painstaking labor, rewritten the entire work, adding many new materials, and making of it what I believe to be a complete, though a short, history of our city. The story has developed itself into three natural divisions: historical, industrial, and intellectual, and the record will show that under either one of these titles Pittsburgh is a notable, and under all of them, an imperial, city.
S. H. C.
Lake Placid Club,
Adirondack Mountains,
August 25, 1908.