Grapefruit League- McKechnie Field- Pittsburgh Pirates

HEARING AN UMPIRE CALL “PLAY BALL!” IS NOTHING NEW IN FLORIDA. MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING BEGAN HERE IN 1888, WHEN THE WASHINGTON STATESMEN

(LATER THE WASHINGTON SENATORS) VISITED JACKSONVILLE TO PLAY A SERIES OF PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES.

FLORIDA BECAME A ...

Pittsburgh's Hill District_Malina Suity

In the 1950s, the city of Pittsburgh demolished 95 acres of the Lower Hill neighborhood to construct what would one day be the Civic Arena. The project displaced over 1,000 families, with many relocating to public housing, and cut a ...

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie No. 508

1950

The Little Giant:

The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, established in 1875, connected the steel centers of Conellsville, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown, Ohio. Only 120 miles long, the P&LE served most of the major industries in the region, providing it the most ...

First Mining of Pittsburgh Coal

This State's bituminous coal industry was born about 1760 on Coal Hill, now Mt. 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 ...

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Ford City Works

Among the largest and most productive plate glass factories in the world; opened 1887. At its peak, the plant employed more than 3,500 ethnically diverse workers, who passed through a specially-built tunnel under busy train tracks. Operations ended 1991.

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Pittsburgh Glass Works

First glass factory in Pittsburgh was established on this site by James O'Hara and Isaac Craig in 1797. It manufactured bottles and window glass until the 1880s. A precursor of Pittsburgh's rise as the nation's largest glass producer.

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The Pittsburgh Platform

This defining document of American Reform Judaism was signed by eighteen rabbis at the Concordia Club near here, November, 1885. The 8-point statement encouraged ecumenical dialogue, emphasized the progressive nature of Reform Judaism, and identified Judaism as a religion.

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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company

First commercially successful U.S. plate glass maker, founded 1883 by John Ford, John Pitcairn and others. First plant was at Creighton; office was half a block east of here on Fourth Avenue. The company became PPG Industries in 1968.

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University of Pittsburgh

First institution of higher education west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. Founded in 1787 as the Pittsburgh Academy, it became the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1819. Present name was adopted in 1908.

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Ships Bell of the U.S.S. Pittsburgh

North face

Ships Bell of the U.S.S. Pittsburgh

Flagship of Admiral Harry Shepard Knapp

1856 – 1923

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Erected in memory of

Admiral Harry S. Knapp

by

Ezra Woods Poat No. 31

American Legion

1951

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Whittlesey Avenue, on the left ...