Fort Pitt and Pittsburgh in 1759

An artist’s rendering shows what Fort Pitt may have looked like at the Forks of the Ohio, the place where the Monongohela and Allegheny rivers converge to form the Ohio River, in 1759. This illustration was the frontispiece for 150 Years of Unparalleled Thrift, Pittsburgh Sesqui-centennial: Chronicling a Development from a Frontier Camp to A Mighty City, published by the executive committee of the Pittsburgh sesquicentennial in 1908.