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Fort Pitt Foundry

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at 12th and Etna. It was an early producer of ordnance for the United States, and manufactured cannonballs for Commodore
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The foundry was closed after the Civil War ended. It was eventually sold to a rival in 1878.
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and Smithfield Street in 1804 by Joseph McClurg, grandfather of
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Ordnance: The Journal of the Army Ordnance Association
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Industrial buildings and structures in Pennsylvania
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Private
Foundry
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Fifth Avenue
Joseph W. McClurg
Alexander C. McClurg
Strip District
Oliver Hazard Perry
War of 1812
cannon
Rodman Gun
"A Great Cannon Foundry"
Scientific American
"Rodman's Great Guns"
the original
"A Twenty-Inch Gun; Casting at the Fort Pitt Foundry"
The New York Times
Simpson, Edward
Report of the Gun Foundry Board, February 16, 1884
39
OCLC
5228492
"Fort Pitt foundry known for 'monster' weapons"
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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City of Pittsburgh

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