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the west, prior to st. louis being the gateway. a pittsburgh native who took the art world by storm. a visit to the andy warhol museum. he grew up in pittsburgh. he was born in 1928, the youngest of three siblings. he grew up really religious. they revise and team catholics. byzantine catholics. we begin at the heinz history center for the look at innovations created right here in western pennsylvania. pittsburgh is an amazing place. it is a city with a tradition of innovation. for 250 years people have come from all over the world to the forks of the ohio, the place for the allegheny and monongahela river comes together to form the ohio river. it is a place where ideas have converged. now follow me and let s take a look at 250 years of pittsburgh innovation. 20,000 years ago, people started coming to north america. no one is native to north america. they all came from someplace else. about 30 miles west of pittsburgh is a place called the meadow cropped rock sh ....
only on c-span3. this year, c-span s touring cities across the country, exploring american history. my look at our visit to pittsburgh, pennsylvania. you re watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. today, the triangle of brown encompasses what is now the park but in the 18th century it was going to be the home of one of the largest british military installations in north america. the diorama in front of it represents what pittsburgh would have looked like in the mid-1760 s. look at tod place to understand the history of why this triangle of land inside of the park today was so important in the 18th century and into the 19th century for a lot of reasons. the biggest is just the location along the two rivers, the allegheny on one side. they come together to form the ohio. is so important is certainly during the 18th century and the mid-18th century, the allegheny takes you all the way up to french canada. you can also from the ohio, travel up s ....