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Devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes
In 1858 Bernadette Soubirous, a peasant girl of fourteen, reported to have witnessed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a grotto at Lourdes, France. The figure led Bernadette to a source of a spring, instruc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8A_st-nicholas-church_Pittsburgh-PA.html
In the late nineteenth century, Croatian immigrants fled economic hardship and settled in Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh's North Side). The Croatian immigrants were predominantly peasants living in a region comprised of one faith, one nationality,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L81_st-nicholas-roman-catholic-croatian-church-north-side_Pittsburgh-PA.html
The first Croatian Catholic parish in America was established in 1894. The 1901 church was a center for spiritual and social Croatian culture. Croatian immigrants fled religious, economic, and political oppression to pursue new lives in Pittsburgh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KUL_refining-crude-oil_Pittsburgh-PA.html
Near this site in the 1850s Samuel Kier constructed a cast-iron distillation unit for refining crude oil. Kier's one-barrel still produced kerosene, a clean burning lamp fuel. Later, Kier built a five-barrel still and invented a lamp that minimize…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KUK_jane-grey-swisshelm-childhood-home_Pittsburgh-PA.html
To The Memory of
Jane Grey Swisshelm
1815-1884
Pittsburgh's first newspaper woman secured passage of state law April 11, 1848 enabling married women to hold and sell property
A woman of great moral courage and love for humanity,
A friend of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KUJ_gulf-building_Pittsburgh-PA.html
Gulf Building 1930-1932
Trowbridge & Livingston, Archs.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KRC_allegheny-aqueduct_Pittsburgh-PA.html
The Pennsylvania Canal across Pennsylvania was an engineering triumph with a spectacular 37-mile railroad portage over the Allegheny Mountains. For half a century between 1820 and the Civil War, packet boats pulled by mules navigated through the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KES_schenley-park_Pittsburgh-PA.html
Schenley Park
Founded 1889
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K04_hampton-battery-monument_Pittsburgh-PA.html
Hampton Battery
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K03_timber-court_Pittsburgh-PA.html
Timber Court was built in 1880 as a lumber mill. Many of the houses constructed in Old Allegheny on the North Side of Pittsburgh used lumber milled at Timber Court.
In 1983, WTW Architects designed the transformation of Timber Court into an off…