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Pennsylvania's second largest city, with an estimated metro population of 2,500,000, early Pittsburgh was a booming frontier trading post and gateway to the west for American pioneers. Once the focus of the nation's steel industry, its rich deposits of coal and petroleum continue to make Pittsburgh one of the major U.S. manufacturing centers. In addition to steel, the city's diversification embraces the manufacture of glass, electrical equipment, machinery, chemical products, and the processing of petroleum, coal, and coke--plus a number of industrial research laboratories. In recent years, Pittsburgh has shed its reputation as the smoky city, thanks to an aggressive urban renewal program and the gradual shift to high-technology companies specializing in computer data programming and software industries.

Beautiful downtown Pittsburgh, known as the Golden Triangle, is site of the Point State park, Gateway Center, the striking Pittsburgh Plate Glass building, and the aluminum-clad Alcoa Building. Among its leading institutions are three major universities, advanced medical center, and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. Other cultural attractions include museums of fine arts and natural history, Carnegie Institute's comprehensive library, a conservatory and science center, the Pittsburgh Playhouse, the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh symphony, and light opera at the Civic Arena. The city is a mecca for year-round sports fans who have their choice of Three Rivers Stadium, home of the professional baseball Pirates and football Steelers, and the Pittsburgh Panthers professional hockey team. Pittsburgh boasts the nation's largest inland river port, an efficient subway line for commuters, a major rail and highway system, an expressway system that joins the Pennsylvania Turnpike east of the city, and to the west the Pittsburgh International Airport. Two cable railways climb the steep north face of Mount Washington for a panoramic view of the city.

Much of America's history is rooted in the Pittsburgh area. When a fort was built in February 1754 for the Ohio Land Company of Virginia--which had been granted rights to the adjacent country by British King George II--the site of Pittsburgh became one of strategic importance in the war between France and Great Britain. The town of Pittsburgh was first laid out in 1764, enlarged in 1784, and incorporated as a borough in 1794, the year in which it was a center of agitation during the Whiskey Rebellion. Pittsburgh became a city in 1816.

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