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H. J. Heinz was born in 1844 in the Birmingham section of Pittsburgh, the son of Anna Margaretha and John Henry Heinz. His father ran a brickyard in Sharpsburg; part of that property was used as a household garden by his mother. At the age of 14, Henry was already tending his own section of the garden and was developing a list of customers.
Feb 11, 2020 · The former WTAE personality held several FM and AM posts through the ’00s; in 2009, she launched a one-hour streaming radio show through the Pittsburgh City Paper. That show can be heard live at 10 a.m. on weekdays. Alan Cox’s afternoon shift at 105.9 The X coincided with the station’s alternative-rock era heyday.
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Dec 18, 2018 · Long before Pittsburgh was a steel mecca or modern city, it was populated by native people. About 12,000 B.C. at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village in Washington County ...
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via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain Much of what is now the North Side cluster of Pittsburgh neighborhoods was once Allegheny City, an independent municipality named so for its place on the banks of the Allegheny River and gobbled up through a controversial annexation in 1907 that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Three neighborhoods—E...
In its earliest days (the 1770s), the settlement was known as "The Experiment"—the experiment being allowing a bunch of Scots-Irish immigrants, who were viewed as industrious but not valuable to the society, to farm and mine an area that was often attacked by natives. In the late 1700s, then-owner David Carnahan split the land between his three son...
via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain This East End locale was once covered with fields of blooming flowers. George Washington, who visited the Pittsburgh area seven times, wrote of walking through “the high ground through a field of many blooms.”
The home of Duquesne University and a bunch of law offices, this area has gone through a few names, including Uptown (for its proximity to downtown), Soho (named after a suburb of Birmingham, England) and Boyd’s Hill (for a guy who hanged himself here—seriously). Its current designation on city maps, Bluff, likely refers to the geological formation...
In 1898, two businessmen bought a tract of land to resell and dubbed their enterprise the Bon Air Land Company, bonair being an old term meaning gentle and courteous. They picked well; today, Bon Air is one of Pittsburgh’s quietest and most suburban-seeming neighborhoods.
One of the main streets here is Brighton Road, named so because it leads to the borough of New Brighton (named for Brighton, England).
Two corporations that bought and sold land here, the Freehold Real Estate Company and West Liberty Improvement Company, named it after the Boston suburb for an unknown reason.
via Wikimedia Commons // CC0 A physician, Dr. John H. O'Brien, badgered the Postal Service to install a post office here. When the agency did in 1853, it let him name it along with the area it served. He chose Carrick, after his hometown of Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland.
This area was once known as the Buena Vista Tract because it was dotted by streets named after Mexican-American War generals (Taylor, Sherman, Pilson) and battles (Monterey, Palo Alto, Buena Vista). James Robinson, Jr., the mayor of Allegheny City who christened the streets, had been a general in the war. Though the Mexican War streets remain a def...
A few decades before the founding of Pittsburgh, Pierre Chartiers, a French-Indian trapper, ran a trading post here.
Oct 6, 2019 · Red letter dates in H.J. Heinz Co. history • Henry John Heinz born in 1844 in Pittsburgh's Birmingham section (South Side) • Heinz & Noble Co. formed in 1869, initially sells horseradish made ...
Oct 14, 2019 · Henry John Heinz, the German-American entrepreneur who founded H.J. Heinz Co., was born Oct. 11, 1844, in Pittsburgh. In 1869, he parlayed that early success selling food into founding Heinz ...
Dec 21, 2023 · PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Today marks a new chapter for an iconic piece of the city of Pittsburgh. One of the two Heinz Ketchup bottles from the formerly named Heinz Field will be moved to a brand new ...
