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In reply to the discussion: Some or most (or virtually all) of you probably won't recall [View all]FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Pittsburgh is one of the very few American cities spelled with the "H" and it's owing to the Gaelic/Celtic influence. Sometime before 1900 the spelling was changed to "Pittsburg" without the "H" and there was a lot of protest. After a few years it was changed by law back to the original spelling as it has remained ever since.
One of our wealthiest, most influential citizens was Andrew Carnegie who was born in Scotland and emigrated to Pittsburgh with his impoverished parents at the age of 6 or 7 years old. He lived and grew up in the area of the Northside that used to be called Allegheny City before it was incorporated into the City of Pittsburgh around 1902. The Northside at that time was populated by a lot of Scottish and Irish immigrants, also Germans who lived in the neighborhood called Deutschtown.
The story of Andrew Carnegie fills several books, but suffice it to say that he provided employment in his steel mills for many of the Scottish, Irish and German immigrants who came to Pittsburgh in those years. Eventually steel mills popped up all over western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio thanks to our proximity to coal, the rivers, the railroads, and the trained labor force.