29 January 2023

My Pittsburgh Stories

 An alphabetical linked index to the stories about Pittsburgh history on this blog.

Abraham Lincoln's Valentine to Pittsburgh

Allegheny Arsenal Explosion, 1862

Bearing Witness to a Beldam: Mother Finch of Homestead

Captain Bill Jones 

Exciting North Side Booze Raids!

Fake Out: Original Reproductions in Pittsburgh

Forgotten History: Albert Gallatin and Fort Lafayette 

Forgotten History: Dooker's Hollow

Forgotten History: Father James Renshaw Cox 

Forgotten History: The Latrobe Family

Forgotten History: The Montooth House on the Hill  

Forgotten History: Pittsburgh's First Museum

Forgotten History:  Pittsburgh's Natatorium

Forgotten History: Police Brutality in Pittsburgh's Hill District, 1925

Forgotten History: Samuel and Luella Coleman, in a class by themselves

Giving the Flu the Respect it is Due: Pittsburgh 1918

Grimesey: Adventures in 19th Century Pittsburgh Policing 

Gusky: The Story of Pittsburgh's First Elephant

Keepers of the Eternal Flame: Pittsburgh and Natural Gas 

The Lower Hill District and Civic Arena 

Marly Horses and Pittsburgh Horses 

May Day: A Story about Worry, Work, and Profanity 

Of Pittsburgh Vice and a Three-Legged Dog 

Oh Give me a Home: the case of the unlikely Pittsburgh buffalo

Pittsburgh, Alligator County 

Pittsburgh and Japanese-American Internment Camp Refugees

Pittsburgh's Central High School 

Pittsburgh's Fountain of Youth. (Too bad, Ponce de León).

Pittsburgh's Lost Islands

Pittsburgh Remembers Andrew Carnegie, The Great Showman 

The Pittsburgh Society Scandal of 1907...That Wasn't 

Quiet, pleasant and self-possessed: Sarah Jane Negley Mellon

Quo Vadis? Guiseppe Moretti's Moveable Pittsburgh Monuments

Rollin' on the River: Pittsburgh Shanty Boat Life

The Short Flight of Pennsylvania's First Licensed Female Pilot 

Transitions: Pittsburgh After World War I

Uncle John Brashear

Unsolved Pittsburgh Mysteries: He'll Be a Dead One Tonight

The Virago of Virgin Alley