Pittsburgh - The Steel City

Not many cities are as unique as Pittsburgh. With its three rivers, distinctive topography of hills, rivers, and valleys, plus some ninety neighborhoods, Pittsburgh is indeed unique.

Steeped in history and tradition, it was a young George Washington who scouted the area for the British. When he viewed the surrounding area at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, he declared in a classic understatement that the land seemed “more than suitable.”

At one time, people traveling to, or living in Pittsburgh, were offered condolences. And why not?

The dawn of the industrial age found the Pittsburgh area at the forefront in iron, steel, and glass production. The preeminence of the United States as the world’s industrial power is due in no small part to Pittsburgh.

With all that industry and subsequent pollution, Pittsburgh was known as The Smoky City. Talk about nicknames.

But no more.

Through several renaissances, the first of which took place in the 1950s, then Mayor David L. Lawrence, together with prominent civic leaders, began a campaign to clean up the city with the slogan of “Smoke Must Go.”

Through the 80s, another transformation followed during the watch of the late Mayor Richard S. Caliguiri.

Since then, the changes have been ongoing, with the landscape and skyline of the city ever changing.

Today Pittsburgh is known as The Steel City, because of the role the area played in the American steel industry.

You’re invited to check Pittsburgh out for yourself.

Whether on the North Shore, at Station Square, Downtown, up on Mt. Washington, or any of the many neighborhoods or surrounding towns and cities, discover for yourself that Pittsburgh indeed is someplace special.

A. Robert Scott
Publisher/Owner

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