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Historic Remnants to be Buried
Point State Park, Pittsburgh is at the meeting point of the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
Above & Below: The entrance to Old Fort Pittsburgh and the fort plaque.
Wall remnants of the fort in Point State Park are due to be graded over to make a level surface for large public gatherings.
Richard Voelker reports in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a few months shy of old Fort Pitt’s 250th anniversary wall remnants of the fort in Point State Park will be buried under new grading to make way for a large public gathering space. He bemoans the forces that be—the governor for not stopping it, the Riverlife Task Force, the director of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and a Boston-area landscape design consultant who he says came to Pittsburgh and ignored the historic park’s 50-year-old management policies, ones developed by Ralph Griswold, a Pittsburgh landscape architect known for site restoration work at Williamsburg, Va.
Voelker writes: … “since the region’s sole claim to fame is currently linked to these same, now-visible artifacts, isn’t it counterproductive to bury them just to provide a safer noshing environment for chubby festival-goers?”
Voelker says the local preservation organizations (the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the History & Landmarks Foundation and The Heinz History Center) were absent from public discussion.
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