Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1919 — Beginning of Pittsburgh. [ARTICLE]

Beginning of Pittsburgh.

November 25 is the anniversary of the raising of the English flag over the ruins of Fort Duquesne in 1754." The place was ttjen named Pittsburgh, in honor of Britain’s famous prime minister. It owes its great growth to its proximity to coal and iron fields of vast magnitude.