Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1895 - Pittsburgh

Pittsburg, or Pittsburgh, a city and the capital of Alleghany co., Pa., and a port of delivery, is 354 miles W. by N. of Philadelphia, # miles S. of Erie, and 193 miles E. of Columbus. Lat. 40° 26' 34" N.; lon. 80° 2'38" W. Within the angle formed by the rivers Alleghany and Monongahela where they meet and give birth to the Ohio (the three rivers forming a water-line which, viewed from the W., resembles a letter Y, except that the Ohio trends some what to the N.) lies the original Pittsburg, the inner point being the site of the old Fort Du Quesne of the French, later of Fort Pitt, the nucleus of the city; looking inland from the point the land widens rapidly and at the same time rises slowly, but quite perceptibly, from the high-water level to an elevation of from 400 to 500 feet. Mostly upon this slope lies the closely-built-up portion of the city, with river-frontage on both the N.W. and the S.W., extending about 8 miles, with but a slight inclination northward in the Alleghany line, and two slight curves, first northward then southward, in that of the Monongahela. Until 1872 the city was bounded by the two rivers, but during that year it crossed the S.W. boundary by the annexation of the extensive manufacturing district formerly comprised in the boroughs of Temperanceville, Union, West Pittsburg, Allentown, Mount Washington, Birmingham, East Birmingham, Lower St. Clair, South Pittsburg, and Ormsby. In 1874 the city was further enlarged by annexing Wilkins township on the E...

It became a county town in 1791, was incorporated a borough in 1804, and was chartered as a city in 1816. Pop. in 1810,4768; in 1820, 7248; in 1830, 12,542; in 1840, 21,115; in 1860, 49,217; in 1870, 85,076... Pop. in 1880, 156,389; in 1890, 238,617.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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