Historically, the Indian tribe most dominate in the region was the Iroquois. Another tribe that had settled in the area was the Allegewi. Although the Allegewi was not the dominate tribe, several important regional assets continue to be rooted in the Allegewi tribe name. The Allegheny River, the Allegheny Mountains, and Allegheny County.
In 1749, the land of Western Pennsylvania and of the Ohio Valley were formally claimed for France by the French Captain Celeron De Blainville, who made an expedition down the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers for the purpose of burying hundreds of lead plates asserting French dominion over the Ohio, and nailing plaques bearing the arms of Louis XV to convenient trees along the route. The English also were interested in the area and Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia sent Major George Washington to warn the French away from their posts, but his mission failed and the young surveyor, on his return, narrowly escaped drowning in the ice-packed Allegheny River. In 1754, the governor sent a group of 41 Virginians to build a fort named Prince George at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. Before the English finished the fort, however, the French received word of the effort and 500 men, 60 boats, 300 canoes and 18 pieces of artillery arrived and demanded the English band surrender its fort and leave the country. The English evacuated the incomplete fort and the French then assumed command. They completed and strengthened the bastion and named it Fort Duquesne.
The struggle for possession of the fort developed into one of he principal objectives of the French and Indian War. The British, fearful for the safety of the western boundaries of their thriving American colonies, sent an expedition under General Edward Braddock to retake the fort, but the effort was an unqualified disaster and it was not until 1758 that the British, under General John Forbes, finally succeeded in driving out the French from Fort Duquesne. The stockade was destroyed, and in its place was erected a moat, stone, brick and earth defense named Fort Pitt.
In 1791, Pittsburgh, which had become the chief stopping-off point for settlers traveling the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, became the county's seat and most important municipality, both strategically and economically.The great difficulty in getting goods over the mountains, the need for resources to wage the revolution, and the requirements of westward travelers for supplies, all contributed to early transformation of the area into a manufacturing center. From 1794 on, when the Battle of Fallen Timbers freed the area of danger from Indian attack, iron smelting, tool making, nail and wire manufacturing, glass blowing, tanning and boat building became important and growing businesses. .
In addition to supporting important manufacturing activities, Allegheny County also was a rich farming area, and produced a surplus of grain, which could not be shipped back over the mountains because of the expense. Thus, the farmers distilled the grain into readily salable whiskey, which brought badly needed cash into an essentially debtor region. .
1790 - Pittsburgh located in an area claimed by Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Once Virginia publically claimed and titled the region The District of West Augusia and Ohio claimed that the eastern boarder of Ohio started on the opposite side of the Monongahela Rivers. The Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania grovernment responded with their armed milita being sent in the area openly refuting such claims. Why the river's beginning at the Pittsburgh point continues to this day to be referred to as the Ohio River is unclear. Briefly, Pittsburgh was the seat of government for the short lived District of West Augusta, a Virginia county designed to compete with Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County government that, at the time, was based in nearby Hannastown, Pennsylvania.
Virginia and Pennsylvania agreed on the current boundaries of the state and the Pittsburgh region then was officially recognized by Virginia as part of Pennsylvania.
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