Excerpt from Pittsburgh in 1816 This little book will interest the Pittsburgher of 1916 chiefly because the parts and pieces of which it is made were written by men who were living here or who passed this way in 1816. The three newspapers of the day - the Gazette, the Mer cury, and the Commonwealth - have furnished, though some what sparingly, the items of local news. They have also furnished advertisements - these in greater abundance and variety. The men who were the tourists of the day in America, traveling by stage, ...
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Excerpt from Pittsburgh in 1816 This little book will interest the Pittsburgher of 1916 chiefly because the parts and pieces of which it is made were written by men who were living here or who passed this way in 1816. The three newspapers of the day - the Gazette, the Mer cury, and the Commonwealth - have furnished, though some what sparingly, the items of local news. They have also furnished advertisements - these in greater abundance and variety. The men who were the tourists of the day in America, traveling by stage, Wagon, boat, or on horseback, often made Pittsburgh a stopping place in their journey. Many of them wrote books, in which may be found two or three pages, or a chapter, on the city as it appeared at that time. It is from these books that the section Impressions of early travelers has been gathered. The date given with these extracts is the date of publication, but the period referred to in every case is between 1815 and 1817. In addition to these gleanings from contemporaries, a num ber of paragraphs from various histories of the city have been included. The sketches that have thus been bought together do not form a systematic or well proportioned description of the city; yet they may help, through their vivid pictures and first-hand impressions, to give some idea of life in Pittsburgh a century ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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