Pittsburgh Guide to Pittsburgh Tourist Information
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First settled by the French in the eighteenth century, modern Pittsburgh grew up around a British fort built at The Point, and named Fort Pitt after the prime minister William Pitt the Elder.
Following the revolution and independence, the coal reserves around the city coupled with its position as a major trading centre saw Pittsburgh develop into a centre for the emerging steel industry, and its position as a major industrial belt city continued right through until the 1970s, when it narrowly avoided the post industrial collapse that crushed Detroit into urban decay, and became one of the more important high technology cities in the eastern USA, famous as the first nuclear powered city on the continent.
The city boasts a modern skyline of distinctive skyscrapers and around the city which have seen Pittsburgh become the backdrop for a number of major films including Dogma, Flashdance, and Queer as Folk. Across Pittsburgh, the wealth of the past is clearly evident too, and benefactors for Pittsburgh's industrial golden age have ensured their immortality by bequeathing many museums and concert halls to the people of the city, and consequently, with the excellent schools and universities there, the city has long been seen as a fairly liberal place to live, both politically, and for the arts, and amongst the luminaries of Pittsburgh, oddball artist Andy Warhol is perhaps the best known.
Facts for the Traveller:
Name: United States of America
Capital: Washington D.C.
Area: 9.63 million Sq KM
Population: 290 million
Language: English, Spanish, Native American
Flight Time: 6-11 Hours from London
Currency: US Dollar
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