![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His first trek to the area now known as Pittsburgh occurred when he was thirteen years old while serving as a dispatch rider between Carlisle and Fort Pitt. How do we propose to do this? Using our own take on the popular school children’s exercise Flat Stanley, we introduce you to Flat Denny.Ī painting of the borough of Pittsburgh by George Beck in 1806 and Flat Denny recreating the painting with the city of Pittsburgh in 2016.Įbenezer Denny was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1761. So throughout 2016, we will “show” Mayor Ebenezer Denny around the city and explain to him the history of Pittsburgh throughout the last 200 years. Of course the city has seen a lot of change during that time and we wondered what our first mayor would have thought about today’s Pittsburgh. Welcome to the year of Pittsburgh’s bicentennial! Two hundred years ago Pittsburgh was incorporated as a city. ![]()
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