Allegheny City , Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Allegheny City , Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA is a city and its address is Allegheny City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania USA. Allegheny City
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Allegheny City (1788–1907) was a Pennsylvania municipality located on the north side of the junction of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, across from downtown Pittsburgh. It was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. The area today is known as the North Side of Pittsburgh, and its waterfront district, along the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, as the North Shore.
Prior to the 1850s, this area was largely farmland, but was subdivided into residential lots, first for the growing German population and later for the Croats. It was commonly referred to as "Deutschtown".
The area of Allegheny City included the present Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Allegheny West, Brighton Heights, East Allegheny, Fineview, Manchester, Marshall-Shadeland, Perry North, Perry South, Spring Garden, Spring Hill-City View, Summer Hill, and Troy Hill.
Allegheny was an industrial city and had numerous commercial areas, churches, and social organizations, packing houses, tanneries, soap factories and glue factories that provided opportunities for employment to the primarily German immigrants who settled there. The H.J. Heinz Company built its factory in Allegheny City, close to the Chestnut Street bridge, which has been replaced by the 16th Street Bridge.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the "Made in Allegheny" label could be found not only on basic iron but on rope, plows, cotton cloth, wool, food, paper, paint, steam engines, wagons and carts, meat, soap, candles, lumber, linseed oil, furniture and a host of other diversified products.
