The Fort Pitt Block House is an 18th century fortification in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Located at Point State Park, the red brick structure is the only building remaining from Fort Pitt on the Forks of the Ohio. - AsNotedIn
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| 1759/00/00 | Fort Pitt (lost) is erected by British forces at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers next to the site of Fort Duquesne, 1759-1761. The pentagram shaped fortress was designed by Cap Harry Gordon, 60th Royal American Regiment of Foot. | French and Indian War | ||||
| 1763/06/16 | Four Shawnee warn Alexander McKee and Captain Simeon Ecuyer at Fort Pitt that several tribal nations had accepted Pontiac's war belt and bloody hatchet and are preparing to attack British positions. Some older Delaware chiefs are against war. | Pontiac's War | ||||
| 1764/10/00 | A small number of defensive redoubts are erected on the perimeter of Fort Pitt by order of Henry Bouquet, commander of Fort Pitt. The Block House is the only redoubt to survive. | Pontiac's War | ||||
| 1766/00/00 | Col John Irwin | Groom | Elizabeth Cunningham, daughter of the Fort Pitt's British commander, marries John Irwin, Chief Commissary Officer for the army's western division, stationed at Fort Pitt. | |||
| 1772/00/00 | The British abandon Fort Pitt and sell it to colonists, William Thompson and Alexander Ross. The Block House will serve as a trading post for a number of years. | |||||
| 1776/00/00 | Zackquill Morgan | Discovers plot to seize Fort Pitt | Col Zackwell Morgan leads 500 militiamen, mostly from the Marion County area, on capturing more than 200 hundred of Col. Alexander McKee's Tories conspiring to seize Fort Pitt. McKee's recruits are placed under military arrest. | |||
| 1776/05/15 | Jacob Persinger | Soldier | Captain Matthew Arbuckle departs Fort Pitt with a company of Virginia militia to build a fort at the Great Kanawha | |||
| 1777/02/12 | John Sappington | Patriot Soldier | Authorized on 16 September 1776 by the Continental Congress for service with the Continental Army, The 13th Virginia Regiment is established at Fort Pitt with nine companies of soldiers from Yohogania, Monongalia and Ohio Counties in western Virginia. | |||
| 1783/01/01 | John Sappington | Patriot Soldier | The 13th Virginia Regiment, reorganized and redesignated as the 7th Virginia Regiment is disbanded at Fort Pitt. | |||
| 1892/00/00 | The Fort Pitt Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Allegheny County is established in order to accept the donation of the Fort Pitt Block House from Mary Schenley. |
| Particulars for Fort Pitt Block House: | |
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| Cultural Affiliation | American Military |
| Military Event | American Revolutionary War |
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Historic Use | Battle site |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Category for Historic Use | Defense |
| Cultural Affiliation | Delaware, Lenni-Lenape |
| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Structure Type | Fortification |
| Military Event | French and Indian War |
| Event Category | Historic Event |
| Area of Significance | Military |
| Structure Attribute | Redoubt |
| Cultural Affiliation | Shawnee |
| Owner | State |
| Structure | Stronghold, fort |
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