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

Zooelogical 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.

A SHORT HISTORY
OF
PITTSBURGH
1758-1908

A SHORT HISTORY OF PITTSBURGH

HISTORICAL

I

George Washington, the Father of his Country, is equally the Father of
Pittsburgh, for he came thither in November, 1753, and established the
location of the now imperial city by choosing it as the best place for a
fort. Washington was then twenty-one years old. He had by that time
written his precocious one hundred and ten maxims of civility and good
behavior; had declined to be a midshipman in the British navy; had made
his only sea-voyage to Barbados; had surveyed the esta