PITTSBURGH
Allegheny County • “City of Champions”
Pittsburgh incorporated on March 18, 1816
Pittsburgh is known both as “the Steel City” for its more than 300 steel-related businesses and as the “City of Bridges” for its 446 bridges. Pittsburgh has more bridges than any other city in the world. Additionally, Pittsburgh is a leader in computing, electronics, and the automotive industry.
Pittsburgh has been named the most affordable city in the world (yes, world) by the Urban Reform Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy for 2022. This new study from the two nonprofits covering 92 cities in eight different countries, shows the Steel City edged out every other major metropolitan area in the world. Oklahoma City and Rochester, N.Y. tied for second.
One of the city’s professional teams is the NFL’s Super Bowl winning team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. It is named after the distribution company the Pittsburgh Steeling company established in 1927. The team has been owned by the Rooney family since the team’s founding in 1933, show consistency in coaching it has had only three coaches since the 1960s.
The Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team is the city’s oldest professional sports franchise having been founded in 1881. In addition, in 1971 the Pirates were the first Major League team to field an all-minority lineup. One sportswriter claimed, “No city is more synonymous with Black baseball than Pittsburgh.”
The NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins have played in Pittsburgh since the team’s founding in 1967. Golf has deep roots in the area. The oldest U.S. course in continuous use, Foxburg Country Club dating from 1887 calls the region home.
The Riverhounds, an American professional soccer team, were founded in 1998. Like the major league teams in the city, the Riverhounds wear black and gold kits.
Ella Nora Phillips Stewart (March 6, 1893 – November 27, 1987) was one of the first African-American female pharmacists in the United States. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh.
In Pittsburgh, Stewart began working in a local pharmacy as a bookkeeper, and her job sparked in her an interest in becoming a pharmacist. Despite the challenges she faced both as a woman and as an African American, she gained admittance to the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in 1914.
She completed her degree in pharmaceutical chemistry (Ph.C.) in 1916, becoming the first Black woman to graduate from Pitt’s pharmacy program. In the same year, Stewart passed the state examination becoming the first African American female pharmacist in the state of Pennsylvania and one of the first African American female pharmacists in the country.
In 1918 she established her own business, Myers Pharmacy. Moving to Toledo, Ohio, Ella and William Stewart opened Stewarts’ Pharmacy, located at the corner of Indiana and City Park Avenues (566 Indiana Avenue), in Toledo, in July 1922, and operated it until 1945, when they sold the business.
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