Fort Duquesne - Present-day Site

Present-day Site

Seven Years' War in
North America:
The French and Indian War,
St. Lawrence and Mohawk theater
  • Lake George
  • Fort Bull
  • Fort Oswego
  • 1st Snowshoes
  • Sabbath Day Point
  • Fort William Henry
  • German Flatts
  • 2nd Snowshoes
  • Fort Carillon
  • Fort Frontenac
  • La Belle-Famille
  • Fort Niagara
  • Fort Ticonderoga
  • Beauport
  • Quebec
  • St. Francis
  • Sainte-Foy
  • Thousand Islands

Fort Duquesne was located where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio. The location in downtown Pittsburgh is now known as Point State Park or "the Point." The park includes a brick outline of the fort's walls. In May 2007, Thomas Kutys, an archaeologist with A.D. Marble & Company, a Cultural Resource Management firm based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, rediscovered a stone and brick drain thought to have drained one of the fort's many buildings. Due to its depth in the ground, this drain may be all of the fort that has survived. The entire northern half of the site the fort is thought to have occupied was destroyed by the heavy industrial usage of the area in the 19th century.

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