tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post2419245925126967094..comments2024-02-20T01:38:55.934-05:00Comments on All Not So Quiet Along the Potomac: My German Ancestors: A Discovery About Family HistoryRon Baumgartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12449787740945022061noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post-64400630080220128232011-11-08T15:02:14.404-05:002011-11-08T15:02:14.404-05:00Thanks, Vince. I haven't lived in the Burgh f...Thanks, Vince. I haven't lived in the Burgh for quite a number of years, but I don't particularly recall hearing much about the city during the Civil War. Rather, there was a lot of focus on the French and Indian War (interesting in its own right), which essentially started at the Forks of the Ohio. Perhaps as you suggest, people don't want to think about the subsequent days of smoke, grime, and labor strife. <br /><br />Thanks for the two links. The University of Pittsburgh site has some good images, like the one I included above. I wonder if these laborers ever shared a beer with my folk? In any event, Reinhard was listed on the draft records as a laborer, so perhaps he too was at such a factory.<br /><br />I really enjoy your webiste and had seen this post. I definitely will need to forward a link to my family!Ron Baumgartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12449787740945022061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post-90182902074962158062011-11-08T09:31:04.382-05:002011-11-08T09:31:04.382-05:00Interesting post. Now on my third year living in P...Interesting post. Now on my third year living in Pittsburgh, I've concluded that the city doesn't do all that good of a job interpreting its mid-nineteenth century history, which I think ought to be extremely fascinating based on tiny glimpses I've seen of it. Maybe it's just that looking then forces you to see the impending train wreck of the Carnegie era, so people want to avoid it.<br /><br />Anyway, one pretty remarkable resource you might like is a photographic album of the Lyon Shorb iron company, which was not too far from Birmingham:<br />http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/lyonshorb.html<br />Perhaps some of these guys stopped by your ancestor's grocery store. <br /><br />Also, not sure if you caught it, but I found some rather amusing hyperbolic descriptions of Pittsburgh by visitors from Lancaster that I posted a few weeks back:<br />http://www.lancasteratwar.com/2011/10/continuous-smoke-and-unpleasant.htmlVincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07443492379769127484noreply@blogger.com