. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . General Forbes. The army was immediately set at work erecting a smallmilitary work on the east bank of the Monongahela, and this was the first FortPitt, capable of holding two hundred men, from whence arose the name ofPittsburgh, as the settlement was called from the 1st of January, 1759, in thenewspapers and letters of the day. In the summer of 1759, General Stanwixarrived and commenced the erection of the second Fort Pitt, which the followingengraving shows the plan of and its position to the present streets of the a, Barracks, alrea
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . General Forbes. The army was immediately set at work erecting a smallmilitary work on the east bank of the Monongahela, and this was the first FortPitt, capable of holding two hundred men, from whence arose the name ofPittsburgh, as the settlement was called from the 1st of January, 1759, in thenewspapers and letters of the day. In the summer of 1759, General Stanwixarrived and commenced the erection of the second Fort Pitt, which the followingengraving shows the plan of and its position to the present streets of the a, Barracks, already built ft, Coiiimandants Ilotiso, not built, c, Sfon- House, f/, rf, PowderMagazines, r, CaseiiKite, completed. /, Store House for Flour, kc. fj, Wells, in two of wliicli arepumps. /(, Fort Duquepne. », », Ho:n Work, to cover French Barracks. A- First Fort Pitt,destroyed, n, hallv Iurt. Pittsburgh and Allegheny This plan is a reduced copy of the draft made by the constructing engineer,Rutzer, in 17(31, afterwards given to George the III, and presented by George IVto the British .Museum. The Hon. Richard Biddle, during a visit to London in1830, had a copy made from the original; from which, we presume, was madethe engraving we have here copied. In 1764, Colonel Boquet built a redoubt outside of the fort, on the spotmarked with a * in the plan, which is still standing. The following description of the fort and the village is from a diary kept bjone James Kenny, who had a traders store at the fort in 1761 : 11th mo: 19th.—The Fort Banks here is very near raised, wpittsburghallegh00thur
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