Maybe today is a good day to note that the flooding that could be happening is prevented by the dams of the Upper Allegheny.

Rust & Dirt: Rust Belt History@rustanddirt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Warren County, #Pennsylvania. I was an adult before I learned how its construction displaced over 600 Seneca members and flooded 1/3 of their territory, including most of the historic Cornplanter Tract. (Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1993) #history

21-year-old George Washington’s route to Fort LeBoeuf in 1753, occupied by the French near modern day French Creek in Waterford, #Pennsylvania. From LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1956. #GeorgeWashington #history

I am far away. Things just find me. This was U.S. Steel’s top accountant in the 1980s.

Coincidentally, there are a few podcasts coming up. But here is one Pittsburgh-focused podcast you may not have heard of yet and my interview with Ken Eshenbaugh on Steel City Soliloquies: youtu.be/FETvjjWcQqA?...

Coincidentally, there are a few podcasts coming up. But here is one Pittsburgh-focused podcast you may not have heard of yet and my interview with Ken Eshenbaugh on Steel City Soliloquies: youtu.be/FETvjjWcQqA?...

OTD: last print edition of the Pittsburgh Press

New: Pittsburgh MSA unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) down 1/10 to 3.9% for June 2026. Again below 4.0% which is rare territory for Pittsburgh over the last half century+. www.pa.gov/content/dam/...

Can everyone in Western Pennsylvania read this! Journal of Rural Studies: Downhill from here? Why shrinking regions are not necessarily ‘left-behind’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Willie Stargell, a fan favorite #Pittsburgh Pirate. #baseball #mlb

Can everyone in Western Pennsylvania read this! Journal of Rural Studies: Downhill from here? Why shrinking regions are not necessarily ‘left-behind’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

WTF?

John Garrison Marks@johngmarks.com · 2w ago

Unable to control the content of the Smithsonian NMAH, Trump is ordering NPS/Interior to install signage along the NPS-controlled National Mall telling visitors about the findings of the report and to install new exhibits about the signers of the Declaration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Giant Eagle advertisement. 1993. #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania.

The Pittsburgh Pipers of the ABA. 1970. #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania.

Wallace says there is a Pittsburgh history book you probably haven’t read, but should.

Factoid of the day: Foreign-Born Population in the Pittsburgh region, 1870-2024

Some day... Pittsburgh will have a Seneca Day to at least acknowledge what they loss so we would not suffer the worst of the chronic flooding we did most years.

Rust & Dirt: Rust Belt History@rustanddirt.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Osage and Cherokee, #Pittsburgh Day, September 15th, 1926. Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition.” Photographed by John D. Cardinell. (Source: Free Library of Philadelphia) #history #pennsylvania

Stoop life. South Side (Pittsburgh) cool. 1980s. Photo: Joel DeGrand

Should I try this?

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 3w ago

I used to work in Barnes and Noble. Here I am at my local B&N. When I told a bookseller it was mine, she got on the loud speaker and said, “There is an author in the building!” Another staff member came over and they asked me to sign my books and congratulated me. Thanks, B&N!

It’s Pittsburgh of the 20th Century Nostalgia Day outside.

Old is new again.

More office cleaning. Here is a 'vision' of regional transit for Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh region circa 2003. Just leaving it at that....

Ok historians. An unpublished history I’ve found of the Port Authority lists the first public transit in the city as “Naser’s Hack Line to Lawrenceville” in *1840*, an omnibus, which understand to be a variation of a stage coach. I see no other mention of this anywhere. Anyone know more?

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment complaints against him.

paydayreport.com

More stuff surfacing in my office. I wonder how much this report has been read in 3+ decades? Developing Pittsburgh's Biotechnology Assets (1988) Now scanned here: beyondsteel.briem.com/References/S...

Where we at?

The results of many feet going up and down these steps.

Ok, historian peeps. It's a work in progress, and I'd say it's 80% done, but I have source links for every reference in the book for future reference. See: beyondsteel.briem.com/references.h...

This is the section of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh left uncleaned as a note for posterity showing how much pervasive soot once defined the city. It was cleaned three decades ago. I swear this was darker in the past. Maybe it has faded over time?

This is the section of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh left uncleaned as a note for posterity showing how much pervasive soot once defined the city. It was cleaned three decades ago. I swear this was darker in the past. Maybe it has faded over time?

Two 1976 Pittsburgh train stories not to be repeated in 2026