Pittsburgh's South Side
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Pittsburgh's South Side

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eBook - ePub

Pittsburgh's South Side

About this book

In 1763, King George III granted 3,000 acres of bottomland on the south side of the Monongahela River to Maj. Gen. John Ormsby for his service in capturing Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. Just 100 years later, this flat river plain became the center of the ?Workplace of the World.? Powerful industrial giants such as B. F. Jones, James Laughlin, and Henry W. Oliver were drawn to the area, making it the heart of the Industrial Revolution. Immigrants came in droves from Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, and later from central and Eastern Europe. They crowded Carson Street with the sights and sounds of different languages, customs, and fashions. These were the people who made the steel and iron that built America. Pittsburgh?s South Side is their story, a story of glass factories, steel mills, incline planes, trolley cars, saloons, and the crowded row houses where they raised their families.

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Information

Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9781439632727
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. One - THE GLASS CAPITAL OF AMERICA
  9. Two - THE WORKPLACE OF THE WORLD
  10. Three - THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT AMERICA
  11. Four - THE TROLLEYS AND INCLINES
  12. Five - THE STREETS AND ALLEYWAYS
  13. Six - THE STORES, SALOONS, AND HOTELS
  14. Seven - THE BRIDGES CROSSING THE MONONGAHELA
  15. Eight - THE SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND LIBRARIES
  16. Nine - SPECIAL PEOPLE AND SPECIAL PLACES