Fort Pitt

Fort Pitt may refer to:

  • Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), on the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States
  • Fort Pitt, Kent, in the United Kingdom
  • Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan), a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada
  • Fort Pitt (Amtrak), a former train operated by Amtrak between Pittsburgh and Altoona in Pennsylvania

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or pitt:

    “There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the “Monied Interest;” I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself “the friend of government.””
    —William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)