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BY JACK ETZEL
IT’S PITTSBURGH’S BIGGEST BIRTHDAY PARTY: 250!
2008 marks the 250th birthday of the Pittsburgh region, so first a
piece of Pittsburgh trivia: Are you aware that you, and all of the
rest of us, came very close to not living in the “Burgh,” but instead,
living in a place called Pittsborough? In the wake of British General
John Forbes’ troops capturing Fort Duquesne from the French, Forbes
ordered that the fort be renamed Fort Pitt, honoring the name of the
British Secretary of State, William Pitt the Elder, and that the
triangular land between the rivers be named Pittsborough. That was in
November of 1758. As time went by, more and more of the early settlers
started pronouncing it Pittsburgh and that was the name that stuck.
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