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Pittsburgh Railway Riots
We're in the process of creating/expanding this article on the 1877 riots in Pittsburgh, but we've run into a couple of snags. Maybe someone more familiar with the city can help.

One of the authors we're basing the general structure of the article on, McCabe, references to two places in/around downtown that we can't seem to find.

The first is an area called Claremont, which was (is?) somewhere north of the the Allegheny, but we can't quite find where. It doesn't seem to be on List of Pittsburgh neighborhoods, and it's not really 100% clear that it was a neighborhood.

The second it Millvale Station, which is used as a reference point quite a bit. I'm fairly certain that it was destroyed in the fire during the riots, but so far we haven't found anything about where it was, or even an indication of what general area. Something like "corner of Liberty and 16th, would go a great way toward making visual aids for the article, but so far nothing.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers. Timothy Joseph Wood 19:21, 27 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Claremont or Claremont Station was in southeast O'Hara Township (see map). Millvale Station, in what is now Bloomfield, can be seen near the west edge of this map.
 * --Phleg1 (talk) 03:08, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Awesome. Thanks for the response. Do you happen to know if these maps are in the public domain? Timothy Joseph Wood 11:47, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes: "Unless otherwise noted, the majority of the books in our full-text collection and maps included on the Historic Pittsburgh website are in the public domain" The maps to which I linked were published in 1876 and 1872, so their copyrights have expired. Phleg1 (talk) 14:43, 29 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, good idea to check there - At least one source said that the National Guard troops went to Sharpsburg, which I see is west of Claremont on that map showing O'Hara Township. Interesting that Milvale Station was in what became the Bloomfield neighborhood in the East End- it was settled by Catholics in the 19th c. - German and later Italians. I thought most of the riot/protests were south of the Monongahela River around the PA RR yards; have to read again.Parkwells (talk) 18:04, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Parkwells, minor point, the riots were mostly on the south of the Allegheny River, with some spreading to the north of the river in the town of Allegheny. See this map from 1876. As far as I can tell:
 * P C & St. L RR running to the south of the Monongahela
 * Pennsy RR and Allegheny Valley RR running between the rivers to the main depot which was burnt
 * P Ft. W & C RR and Western PA RR converging in Allegheny City north of the Allegheny river
 * The article currently has the P C & St. L RR striking, but it looks like the citation has been separated from the claim, and it's not clear where it comes from, but there is currently no other information about violence occurring south of the Monongahela. Timothy Joseph Wood  14:06, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Request I assume there are lots of people in this project that live in the city (unfortunately I'm ~8 hours away). If someone could take a walk over the weekend and get a public domain picture of one/a few of the historical markers downtown that would be super duper. Timothy Joseph Wood 14:31, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Nimatron
Hi to all

Is there someone from Pittsburgh ? who could take some pictures of the Nimatron (google translation), that should be exposed at Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science Building ? and then upload them to Commons website ?

Best regards from France. --Archimëa (talk) 10:38, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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