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PITTSTON 



Prime Minister. The fort was conspicuous dur- 

 ing the Revolutionary and French and Indian 

 wars; the only remnant of the extensive forti- 

 fications is the Blockhouse, built by Colonel 

 Henry Bouquet in 1763, and now owned by the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution. The 

 town was organized in 1764, and the borough 

 was incorporated in 1794. 



In 1811 the first steamboat on the western 

 rivers was launched at Pittsburgh, and in 1816 

 the borough became a city. In 1797 the glass 

 industry was established. Impetus was given 

 the growth of the city by the opening of the 



THE OLD BLOCKHOUSE 



Pennsylvania Canal to this point in 1834, but 

 in 1845 a heavy loss by fire was sustained. In 

 1851 the first railroad entered the city. During 

 the first great railroad strike in America (1877), 

 the militia at Pittsburgh refused to fire at the 

 strikers, and state troops, with some loss of 

 life, restored order. The original spelling of 

 the city's name was continued until 1911, when 

 the final h was added. J.P.C. 



Consult Wither's Frontier Forts of Pennsyl- 

 vania ; Boucher's Century and a Half of Pitts- 

 burgh and Her People. 



PITTSBURG LANDING, BATTLE OF. See 

 SHILOH, BATTLE OF. 



PITTS 'FIELD, MASS., the county seat of 

 Berkshire County, is beautifully situated in the 

 heart of the Berkshire Hills, in the northwest- 

 ern part of the state. It is fifty-one miles 

 northwest of Springfield and fifty miles south- 

 east of Albany, N. Y., on a branch of the 

 Housatonic River and on the Boston & Albany, 

 the New York Central (branch) and the New 

 York, New Haven & Hartford railroads. In 

 1910 the population was 32,121; this had in- 



creased to 39,607 in 1915 (state census). Sev- 

 eral villages are included within the city limits, 

 and its entire area is over thirty-four square 

 miles. 



Pittsfield is more than 1,000 feet above the 

 sea and is in a region of beautiful hills, val- 

 leys and lakes, constituting a favorite residence 

 section. Prominent features of the city are 

 a Federal building, completed in 1911 at a cost 

 of $125,000, a fine white marble courthouse, 

 the Berkshire Athenaeum and public library, 

 the Crane Museum of Natural History and Art, 

 a Y. M. C. A. building, and parks and play- 

 grounds. The leading institutions -are the 

 House of Mercy, Hillcrest and the tuberculosis 

 hospitals, the Henry W. Bishop Training School 

 for Nurses and the Berkshire County Home 

 for Aged Women. Pittsfield has important 

 manufactures of electrical machinery, woolen 

 goods, knit goods, fine stationery, paper-mill 

 machinery, men's and boys' clothing, automo- 

 bile accessories, silk braid and spool silk. 



The city was settled in 1743 as Pontoosuck, 

 or Boston Plantation. When it was incorpo- 

 rated in 1761 the present name was adopted. 

 It became a city in 1891. Among the noted 

 men who have been residents of the city and 

 vicinity are Longfellow and Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes. 



PITTSTON, PA., in Luzerne County, is a 

 city in the anthracite coal region in the north- 

 eastern part of the state. It is ten miles south- 

 west of Scranton, on the Susquehanna River 

 and on the Central of New Jersey, the Dela- 

 ware & Hudson, the Lehigh Valley and other 

 railroads. There is electric interurban service 

 to neighboring towns. In 1910 the population 

 was 16,267; it was 17,847 in 1914. About thirty 

 per cent of the inhabitants are Irish and forty 

 per cent are Italian, Welsh, Scotch, Polish and 

 Hungarian. 



The main business of the city is the mining 

 and shipping of coal. Here also are knitting and 

 silk mills, a paper mill, iron works, stove works, 

 brass works, machine shops and railroad yards. 

 In the vicinity are large clay deposits. The city 

 has Saint John's Roman Catholic Church and 

 convent, a Y. M. C. A. building and a public 

 library. On the opposite side of the river, 

 spanned here by several bridges, is West Pitts- 

 ton, more distinctively a residential town. 

 Pittston, named in honor of William Pitt, was 

 settled about 1770, was incorporated as a bor- 

 ough in 1855, and became a city in 1894. The 

 commission form of government was adopted 

 in 1914. 



