CASTING AT THE FORT PITT FOUNDRY. Share full article. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle, Feb. 12. Feb. 21, 1864; ... at the Fort Pitt Works. A gun, with calibre of 20 inches diameter, ...

The Fort Pitt Foundry also produced the largest cannon in the world at that time. Called the Rodman Columbiad cannon, it was 20 feet long and weighed 58 tons.

Of these private foundries, the Alger Works at South Boston Point, the West Point Foundry at Cold Spring, N.Y., and the Fort Pitt Foundry at Pittsburgh, Penn., have had the contracts for heavy ...

PITTSBURGH ― The Fort Pitt Museum, part of the Sen. John Heinz History Center family of museums, will host an April 27 seminar commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Yellow Creek Massacre ...