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Fort Pitt Blockhouse

1951-01

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Fort Pitt Blockhouse
  • Title
  • Fort Pitt Blockhouse
  • Creator
  • Clyde Hare
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B007.F09.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B007.F09.I02
  • Description
  • For years the Fort Pitt Blockhouse, built by Colonel Henry Bouquet in 1764, has stood on its original site surrounded by industrial buildings and urban blight. Here it is shown shortly before everything around it was razed to make way for Point State Park. In the left background is the Point Bridge, which was demolished in 1970. The Blockhouse is preserved today by the Daughters of the American Revolution and is now part of an historical site and museum visited each year by thousands of tourists and school groups.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Fort Pitt Blockhouse (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Fort Pitt (Pa.)
    Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Point Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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