POINTS TO REMEMBER
A Project by Students of Carnegie Mellon University

POINTS TO REMEMBER is an effort to provide historical linkages along the developing system of riverfront trails in the Pittsburgh area to the places where people lived and worked during the city's pre-industrial and industrial past. The intent of this project is to assist public and private agencies in creating meaningful public spaces that place the sights of today in their historical context so that trail users, be they residents or visitors, might gain a fuller understanding of how this city developed. A broader goal, however, is to remind Pittsburghers of their past in hopes that that knowledge might inform their vision of the future.

The project is divided into two parts:

Places of Work deals with the industrial development of the Allegheny and Monongahela River valleys in and around Pittsburgh.

Patterns of Life covers a broad range of topics relating to the communities and neighborhoods in and around Pittsburgh, dating from the first settlement by Europeans through the industrialization of the region.

The project is the capstone course for undergraduates pursuing a degree in History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. The students will furnish their historical products to client organizations in the public and private sector engaged in developing interpretive displays, brochures, or other graphic aids for trail users.

LINKS TO PROJECT CLIENTS' WEB SITES:

Friends of the Riverfront

Steel Industry Heritage Corporation

OTHER LINKS OF RELATED INTEREST:

The Allegheny Trail Alliance

Illustrated Pittsburgh Retrospective

CMU Department of History

Please address comments to Vagel Keller, Project Manager at vck@andrew.cmu.edu