A Place of International Consequence

At the forks where the rivers meet, nature made the Ohio a place of consequence and importance and a rendezvous for the people of North America within reach of it. In 1753, George Washington viewed the rivers and the land in the fork and judged it extremely well situated for a fort because it had absolute command of both rivers. By the 1950s, Pittsburgh was seen as entering one of the most dramatic periods of municipal renaissance that any great American city was likely to undergo in the next decade.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · United States