| Allegheny City: 1840-1907 Contributor(s): The Allegheny City Society (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738555002 ISBN-13: 9780738555003 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2007 Annotation: Allegheny Town was established in 1784 by order of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. By 1840, the tiny wilderness community had grown in size and population to be incorporated as Allegheny City. Throughout the 19th century, Allegheny City became home to immigrants from many European countries who found work in the citys expanding commercial and industrial firms, as well such prominent Americans as Andrew Carnegie, Samuel P. Langley, Mary Cassatt, George Ferris, and Mary Roberts Rinehart. The citizens of Allegheny Citys many neighborhoods took great pride in their citys heritage, schools, parks, and congregations. On January 1, 1907, Allegheny City was the third-largest city in Pennsylvania. By the end of that year, the city, as an autonomous municipality, no longer existed as a result of an annexation by Pittsburgh, its sister city across the river. Allegheny City: 18401907 documents the short history of this remarkable city. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | Social History - Travel | United States - Northeast - Middle Atlantic (nj, Ny, Pa) |
| Dewey: 974.886 |
| LCCN: 2007927944 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6.57" W x 9.2" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Locality - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Publisher Description: Documenting the short but remarkable history of Allegheny City. Allegheny Town was established in 1784 by order of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. By 1840, the tiny wilderness community had grown in size and population to be incorporated as Allegheny City. Throughout the 19th century, Allegheny City became home to immigrants from many European countries who found work in the city's expanding commercial and industrial firms, as well as prominent Americans such as Andrew Carnegie, Samuel P. Langley, Mary Cassatt, George Ferris, and Mary Roberts Rinehart. The citizens of Allegheny City's many neighborhoods took great pride in their city's heritage, schools, parks, and congregations. On January 1, 1907, Allegheny City was the third-largest city in Pennsylvania. By the end of that year, however, the city was an autonomous municipality and no longer existed as a result of an annexation by Pittsburgh, its sister city across the river. |
Contributor Bio(s): The Allegheny City Society: - The Allegheny City Society was founded in the 1950s to preserve and interpret the history of the former Allegheny City. Since its founding, the society s members and friends have contributed many artifacts, books, and photographs to the organization s archives. The images used in this work were drawn from this collection and several area repositories. |