Client:
Pressley Associates, Inc.
Project:
Point State Park Master Plan
Location:
Point State Park, Pittsburgh
Our Role:
Cultural Resource Analysis/ Phase IA Archaeological Survey
CDC prepared the Cultural Resource Analysis of Point State Park as part of the Comprehensive Master Plan. Point State Park is a National Historic Landmark in the City of Pittsburgh and the analysis involved a study of past archaeological projects and recommendations for future work. The project was sponsored by the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and Riverlife Task Force.
Additional Interest: The cultural resources at Point State Park are of national significance and have been deeply impacted by urban development, highway construction, and the creation of the Park’s landscape. What remains of Fort Pitt, Fort Duquesne, and other archaeological resources at the Point possess a high level of historical importance not only to Pittsburgh, but to the Commonwealth and the Nation. What is viewed on the site today is an interpretation of Fort Pitt based on the work of landscape designers with the input of historians and archaeologists. Military features are reconstructed using mid-20th century bricks created by a local brickmaker based on the color and size of the original Fort Pitt bricks. Significant changes have been made to these features to accommodate the new land-use. And the Fort Pitt landscape is presented in an exclusionary manner as the park primarily interprets only one of its many occupations. Pittsburgh’s famous Point was first a significant place to Native Americans and later to the French, English, and Virginians as well as to the thousands of immigrants who moved to the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Point also was significant to the region’s industrial powers.
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