First Free Public Library Building in the United States

First Free

Public Library Building

in the United States

Donated by

Andrew Carnegie

Supported by

Public Funds

Completed in 1890

Women's Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Marker can be reached from Allegheny Square East west of East Ohio Street.

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Peppertown Park

Honoring the early farming community of Berkely Heights, known as Peppertown, and famous for its pepper crops. This park was the site of the Petrone family farm.

Marker is on Plainfield Avenue, on the left when traveling south.

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General George S. Patton, Jr.

Class of 1909

by

James Earle Fraser

1950

Marker is on Thayer Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Charles Taze Russell

(1852-1916)

Pastor Russell formed a Bible study group in Allegheny City in the 1870's; developed it into the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. It became the legal corporation for Jehovah's Witnesses. He lived in the Bible House nearby, 1894-1909; spoke ...

Bridgeville, Delaware

Settled in 1684

by

Christopher Nutter

Through a land grant from Charles Calvert,

The third Lord Baron of Baltimore

Originally referred to as

"Attawattacoquin"

Later known as

"Bridge Branch"

until January 3, 1871, thereafter named

"Bridgeville"

and was incorporated on March 29, 1871

The Bridge Bicentennial ...

Liberty Baptist Church

Between 1837 and 1841 the Baptists in this section were stirred on Missions, Sunday Schools and ministerial support. In 1841 the Ocklochnee anti-Missionary Baptist Assn. passed a ruling to dismiss members believing in the “new fangled institutions of the day.” ...

Horace Greeley’s Crossing Point

Before the first bridge on this site was completed, travelers forded the river just east of this bridge. It became risky during the peak of the spring river flows due to the melting snows that filled the streams and rivers.

In ...

First World Series

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 Boston's Cy Young. Games ...

Thomas Clarke House

In 1772, Thomas Clarke, a Quaker farmer purchased 200 acres of land from his brother William. The land, then part of West Windsor, had been in the Clarke family since 1696. Thomas replaced an existing structure with the main house ...

The Boston Company

Seven members of the Boston Mechanics’ Mining & Trading Company, namely George West (President), Walter Pollard, James MacDonald (Business manager), Mark Leonardo Blunt (later Postmaster), James McIntyre, Lawrence Panton, and Joseph T. Bird arrived in Golden on June 12, 1859. ...