PA, USA
Fort Pitt Museum
Landmark
Museum built within Point State Park that reconstructs the Monongahela Bastion of Fort Pitt and interprets the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War history of the confluence. Exhibits cover the French Fort Duquesne, the British construction of Fort Pitt, Pontiac's War, and the fort's role as a Continental Army western base during the Revolution. The museum occupies the footprint of one of the original fort's bastions.
Visiting Today
Address
601 Commonwealth Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Connected Events
Aug 1775
Jan 1778
George Rogers Clark Stages Illinois Campaign Through Pittsburgh
George Rogers Clark
Feb 1778
Mar 1778
Simon Girty Defects to the British
William Crawford, Simon Girty
Oct 1778
McIntosh Expedition and Founding of Fort Laurens
Edward Hand, Lachlan McIntosh
Aug 1779
Brodhead Expedition up the Allegheny River
Daniel Brodhead
Mar 1782
Gnadenhutten Massacre
William Crawford
Jun 1782
Crawford Expedition Defeated at Sandusky
William Crawford
Sep 1783
Treaty of Paris Confirms Ohio Valley Claims
George Rogers Clark