This little sketch of Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt is compiled from extracts taken mainly from Parkman's Histories; The Olden Time, by Neville B. Craig; Fort Pitt, by Mrs. Wm. Darlington; Pioneer History, by S. P. Hildreth, etc. Pittsburgh September, 1898....

1753 —The French begin to build a chain of forts to enforce their boundaries. December 11, 1753. —Washington visits Fort Le Boeuf. January, 1754. —Washington lands on Wainwright's Island in the Allegheny river.—Recommends that a Fort be built at the "Forks of the Ohio." February 17, 1754. —A fort begun at the "Forks of the Ohio" by Capt. William Trent. April 16, 1754. —Ensign Ward, with thirty-three men, surprised here by the French, and surrenders. June, 1754. —Fort Duquesne completed. May 28,

Conflicting Claims of France and England in North America. On maps of British America in the earlier part of the eighteenth century, one sees the eastern coast, from Maine to Georgia, gashed with ten or twelve colored patches, very different in size and shape, and defined more or less distinctly by dividing lines, which in some cases are prolonged westward until they reach the Mississippi, or even across it and stretch indefinitely towards the Pacific. These patches are the British Provinces, an

French Abandon Fort Duquestne.——Fort Pitt is Built. On the evening of the 24th they encamped on the hills around Turtle Creek, and at midnight the sentinels heard a heavy boom as if a magazine had exploded. In the morning the march was resumed. After the advance guard came Forbes, carried in a litter, the troops following in three columns, the Highlanders in the center headed by Montgomery, the Royal Americans and Provincials on the right and left under Bouquet and Washington. Slowly they made t

Mrs. Mary E. Schenley's Gift to the Daughters of the American Revolution of Allegheny County. The close of the century found Port Pitt in ruins, and this spot over which had waved the flags of three nations, and the banners of two States, was left to the peaceable possession of the mechanic and artisan, the trader and farmer. The little Redoubt built by Col. Bouquet in 1764, and the names of the streets in Pittsburgh, are all that is left as reminders of the struggle for the "Forks of the Ohio,"

By Julia Morgan Harding.M (From the Pittsburgh Bulletin, February 15, 1893.) We are told in his Autobiography that Benjamin Franklin "ever took pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of his ancestors," and in these days of reawakened interest in things of the past, many people may be found who, like the great prototype of American character, Pennsylvania's apostle of common sense, take pleasure in looking into the old records of their family history. A still richer inheritance is the story o

1914 Much water has run under the bridges of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, since the sketch, "The Names of Pittsburgh Streets" was written, and changes as radical as those that took place between the first years of the Nineteenth Century and the early days of the twentieth, have revolutionized the historic "Point" in the last decade. Just as the French and Indians stole down the river before the advance of Gen. Forbes and his British and Colonial troops in 1758, so did the denizens o